How-to Create an Azure Marketplace SKU VHD URL
-Saturday, September 2, 2017
Important: This is your VM that will be released to production. This VM will need to be backed up and snapshotted regularly.
1. Install VM UNMANAGED VHD disk on a Storage BLOB
2. Customize VM, to prepare it to the state you wish your customers to see.
3. Install Windows Updates.
4. Setup Backup
5. Snapshot
Tip: Rely on the Default folder to persist files (i.e. Desktop icons.)
Tip: Rely on C:\ folders to persist files. I.e. C:\Docs, C:\WebSites.
Tip: Setup data drives to precede the CDR drive. I.e. The SQL Server F:\ drive gets renamed to E:\. Solved by pre-configuring as E:\.