20533C Lab gotchas

20533C Lab gotchas

Mod 3 - Exercise 1 - Task 1

When you see the disk type in the settings tab, you need to ensure that HDD is selected, and not SDD. this will allow you to get the Standard_a1 vm type

NOTE: Password must be 12 characters or more

Mod 3 - Exercise 1 - Task 2

If you dont update any of the names you need to edit the PowerShell script to correspond to the defaults.

Here also the password length needs to be 12 or more characters e.g. Pa$$w0rd1234

Make sure the reset and setup script runs first

Try VM size A0 if A1 is not available

 scripts in Labs for Module 3 and 4. Specifically the script CreateRmVM.ps1 in Mod. 3 lab A Ex. 1 and the DeployAzureDSC.ps1 script in Mod. 4 Lab Ex. 2 fail with a "Cannot convert "System.Object[] to the type System.String and other errors

If this is the storage account issue, as in relative uri issue: there is a solution, use the [0] for the storage account uri. The issue is since introducing an additional storage account for diagnostics when creating a VM, you now have more than one stoarage account in Azure, however the script works as is, on the premise you only have one.

So force the script to select the right storage account. I use an index selector on the end: [0] as the quickest solution.

Mark Baugher
Sr. Microsoft Instructor

Mod 4 - Choose 2 regions

You will need 2 regions for this lab.  Choose an azure region during setup-azure (used for Branch VNET) and then choose a second region (used for HQ VNET)

Mod 2

Choose 2 regions

GitHub .. do not choose edit,   just scroll down the page in the new portal and change values there

HQ (not **)
Subnet2 (not **)

Mod 7
Databases

 .it tells you to delete operations db . . .but the sales db is the one that gets geo replicated