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Okay, so that is Run command.

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Let's see, another thing I want to show you is resource health.

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So if we look under Resource health,

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this gives us a great insight into the availability of the machine.

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Of course, we want an available status, so there's no known Azure platform

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problems, and then we can look at the history over the last four weeks

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here, whenever there might have been an event.

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Oftentimes, you'll find these are customer initiated,

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if a VM has stopped, restarted, that kind of stuff.

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But then sometimes, there may be a Microsoft

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platform issue to be aware of as well.

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Diagnose and solve problems.

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Where does that bring us?

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That brings us into the troubleshooter here where we can take a

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look. This is quite a few troubleshooters,

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wow! A significant list of them, as a matter of fact. Close out of there.

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And then lastly, I had mentioned the importance of alerts, that you

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can set alerts on just about any event that happens in your

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subscription. You can set an alert so that you have code run or you do

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notifications whenever a resource health or alert rule fires, and you

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can come down here and customize the conditions of what you're looking

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for, etc., etc.

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You know,

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because I know, as much as any IT professional, that if you

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turn on too many alerts and notifications,

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it can easily be a situation where you grow numb to them.

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I really know that one intimately.

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Finally, let's come back into the VM, and let's go back to

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Serial console and give that another try. Now that we've

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worked around, there we go.

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So this is replicating what you would see if you plugged in literally an

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RS‑232 cable into the serial port on the back of the hardware.

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And it brings us to a simple console interface.

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And we can just do a ch to do a channel listing. Right now, there's

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just one channel, 0, for the serial console itself, but if we want to

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get into a command prompt in PowerShell, we can start a command channel

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by typing cmd, and then we can do ch to get a channel list. Ch ‑? is

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going to give us syntax help, but before I do that, look at that list

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there. It looks like our command channel is channel 1, so keep that in

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mind.

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Why?

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Because in order to switch to a channel by its number, we do ch ‑si,

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and then the channel that we want to switch to.

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So in my case, it's ch ‑si 1. Okay? Let's press Enter to continue.

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We're asked to authenticate with a credential on this machine. I'm

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trying to think if this VM is a domain controller.

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I don't believe it is.

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I don't believe it's a domain member, so I'm going to ignore

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Domain, and let me type my password carefully. Hopefully, I'll get it right the first try.