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Connecting to virtual machines in Azure

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Connecting to virtual machines in Azure

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- [Instructor] Now that we've reviewed networking, which is all the components that we need to connect to the virtual machine, let's go ahead and connect to that virtual machine. When I click on the Connect icon, I have my three methods for connecting to my virtual machine. The first, RDP, I've talked about it before, Remote Desktop Protocol through the Remote Desktop Client, which is a client that is built in to every Windows machine, is a method that's quite known to administrators who connect remotely to servers. So even on an on-prem network where we have multiple servers, many administrators will use Remote Desktop to connect to other servers remotely rather than sit down physically at a server console. So RDP is well known, it's embedded into Windows, and is the primary method for connecting to a server if you need to do simple administration on that server. In this case, it's a virtual machine so we're connecting…

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