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Figure 12. VM status

12 By default, Remote Desktop is not enabled in the images that are used by the default templates. If you did not enable it through an

answer le, you can do any of the following to connect to the VM:

• You can administer the VM by using a remote Windows Power Shell session.

• You can congure Remote Console access, as discussed in the following section.

• If a VMM administrator knows the administrator name and password that was specied for the VM, you can connect to the VM in

the VMM console, and enable Remote Desktop. In the VMM console, in the VMs and Services workspace, right-click the VM,

point to Connect or View, and then click Connect via Console. After you are connected to the VM, enable Remote Desktop in

Server Manager.

NOTE: If it is a Core image, you can use the instructions in this blog post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/

bruce_adamczak/archive/2013/02/12/windows-2012-core-survival-guide-remote-desktop.aspx.

13 If Remote Desktop is enabled for the image, you can connect to the VM either from the tenant portal, or through a direct Remote

Desktop Connection. Realize that you will need to connect from a network that can reach the tenant VM network on which the VM is

deployed:

• To connect through the tenant portal, in the navigation pane, click Virtual Machines. With the VM that you want selected, click

Connect, and then click Desktop. Click the check mark, click Open to open the .rdp le, and then click Connect.

NOTE

: If there are multiple VMs, click inside the row to select the VM; but not the VM name. If you do click the

VM name, this takes you to a dashboard for the VM. You can also connect from here.

• To nd the name or IP address to use for an RDP session when you do not want to use the portal, you can view and note this

information when you click Connect, and then Desktop in the portal. Or, you can click Virtual Machines, and then click the name

of the VM. Click Dashboard and then, under Quick Glance, locate the IP address.

Figure 13. IP addresses

Required settings if you want to create your own VM templates

If you create your own VM templates in VMM, be aware that the following settings are required for Azure Site Recovery to work correctly.

NOTE

: You can open the Create VM Template Wizard from the Library workspace in the VMM console. Under Templates, right-

click VM Templates, and then click Create VM Template.

Use the following settings with the Create VM Template Wizard:

1 On the Identity page of the wizard:

a For Generation, select Generation 1.

2 On the Congure Hardware page:

a Under Network Adapters, you must have a network adapter that is connected to a VM network.

b Under Bus Conguration, make sure that one disk has the Contains the operating system for the virtual machine check box

selected.

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