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Basics

How do I request a Cornell Azure subscription?

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Yes. Campus 10 space has been extended to Azure via an ExpressRoute connection.

Authorization and Authentication

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You can as long as they have a Microsoft account. Any person from an institution that is using O365 will have a Microsoft account. Additionally, even personal Microsoft accounts can be invited. You can scope their access as appropriate from the subscription as a whole even down to the individual resource level.

Learning

What training options are there to learn more about Azure?

Microsoft offers a free online learning path for Azure Fundamentals. In addition to that, within the Microsoft Learn training options, there are currently 316 related to "Azure". 

Virtual Machines

What are the recommended settings for synchronizing the system clock?

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All Windows Server images at Azure are provisioned by default with a 128GB OS disk. Azure does not officially support shrinking the size of the OS disk. To provision a Windows Server with a smaller (32GB) OS disk, you need to select the OS image that is indicated as "smalldisk". Growing the OS disk can be done at any time after the VM is in a "deallocated" state. See how to grow a disk at Azure.

Can I resolve Cornell 10-space addresses to hostnames in Azure?

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