Interface OSProfile

Specifies the password of the administrator account.

Minimum-length (Windows): 8 characters

Minimum-length (Linux): 6 characters

Max-length (Windows): 123 characters

Max-length (Linux): 72 characters

Complexity requirements: 3 out of 4 conditions below need to be fulfilled
Has lower characters
Has upper characters
Has a digit
Has a special character (Regex match [\W_])

Disallowed values: "abc@123", "P@$$w0rd", "P@ssw0rd", "P@ssword123", "Pa$$word", "pass@word1", "Password!", "Password1", "Password22", "iloveyou!"

For resetting the password, see How to reset the Remote Desktop service or its login password in a Windows VM

For resetting root password, see Manage users, SSH, and check or repair disks on Azure Linux VMs using the VMAccess Extension

Specifies the name of the administrator account.

This property cannot be updated after the VM is created.

Windows-only restriction: Cannot end in "."

Disallowed values: "administrator", "admin", "user", "user1", "test", "user2", "test1", "user3", "admin1", "1", "123", "a", "actuser", "adm", "admin2", "aspnet", "backup", "console", "david", "guest", "john", "owner", "root", "server", "sql", "support", "support_388945a0", "sys", "test2", "test3", "user4", "user5".

Minimum-length (Linux): 1 character

Max-length (Linux): 64 characters

Max-length (Windows): 20 characters.

Specifies whether extension operations should be allowed on the virtual machine.

This may only be set to False when no extensions are present on the virtual machine.

Specifies the host OS name of the virtual machine.

This name cannot be updated after the VM is created.

Max-length (Windows): 15 characters

Max-length (Linux): 64 characters.

For naming conventions and restrictions see Azure infrastructure services implementation guidelines.

Specifies a base-64 encoded string of custom data. The base-64 encoded string is decoded to a binary array that is saved as a file on the Virtual Machine. The maximum length of the binary array is 65535 bytes.

Note: Do not pass any secrets or passwords in customData property

This property cannot be updated after the VM is created.

customData is passed to the VM to be saved as a file, for more information see Custom Data on Azure VMs

For using cloud-init for your Linux VM, see Using cloud-init to customize a Linux VM during creation

Specifies the Linux operating system settings on the virtual machine.

For a list of supported Linux distributions, see Linux on Azure-Endorsed Distributions.

Specifies whether the guest provision signal is required to infer provision success of the virtual machine. Note: This property is for private testing only, and all customers must not set the property to false.

Specifies set of certificates that should be installed onto the virtual machine. To install certificates on a virtual machine it is recommended to use the Azure Key Vault virtual machine extension for Linux or the Azure Key Vault virtual machine extension for Windows.

Specifies Windows operating system settings on the virtual machine.