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In this easy Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to quickly recreate a virtual machine configuration in Microsoft Azure without having to reinstall or back up the virtual hard disk.
On rare occasions it might be necessary to recreate a virtual machine configuration in Azure. This can be easily achieved using the management portal and doesn’t involve having to restore your image from a backup or reinstall the operating system.
Note that if you delete a cloud service, there is no guarantee that you will be able to use the same external DNS name again. Additionally, external IP addresses are generated automatically when a cloud service is created, so if you rely on an external addresses for any reason, you should retain your existing cloud service.
Now we can create a new VM by selecting the disk from the VM we deleted in the previous steps.
Note that you are not asked for a username and password for the VM as would usually be the case when creating a VM using an image from the gallery. This is because we have selected a disk with a preexisting OS.
The new VM will now be provisioned. After it is running you will be able to connect to it remotely.
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