Microsoft has been developing a set of tools to help manage Azure-hosted VMs for some time now under its Project Flash banner ...

We have noticed that Azure Virtual Machines are shutting down or stopping unexpectedly in the middle of a session or during startup. There are various reasons why this issue would occur. Usually ...

Users can open System Information (msinfo32.exe) to check if VBS is running and confirm that the Hyper-V role is not installed. They can also verify whether the VM was created with Standard security, ...

1] Check if the VM or its agent has started First of all, we need to check if the virtual machine or the agent has started. Let us go ahead and open the Azure Portal from portal.azure.com.