
If you need help on this, you can check the Create a virtual machine running Windows in the Azure portal link in the Resources section. The very first step is to actually create a Windows Server virtual machine from the portal with everything you want on it (I'll be using a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM).

In this article series you'll see several ways of capturing your custom VM image. Updated on to distinguish Azure PowerShell v0.9.x and v1.0.xīe advised that the experience is not perfect as RPs are is still in preview and improvements will come in waves as the resource providers are reaching GA. Let me show you how you can achieve this.

The IaaS v2 resource providers (Microsoft.Compute, Microsoft.Network & Microsoft.Storage) have been around for several months now and you may have wondered how to use your own custom images for creating virtual machines instead of one offered in the gallery.
