As an IT admin for Contoso Corporation, you’re frequently on-call to perform administrative tasks and resolve workload disruptions to resources in your organization’s Azure subscriptions. When visiting a family member during a weekend that you’re on call, the development team notifies you of a problem with an Azure virtual machine (VM). The VM became nonresponsive during scheduled maintenance for the upgrade of an application that runs on it. Because the developers weren’t granted access to the underlying Azure virtual machine hosting infrastructure, they’re only able to remotely access the VM when it’s operating normally. So, you’re being called to diagnose and remediate the problem.
Since you’re visiting family, you don’t have access to your administrative workstation and diagnostic scripts. You do have access to a laptop with an internet browser. Using the laptop, you browse to the Azure portal, authenticate against your organization’s Azure subscription, open Azure Cloud Shell, mount an Azure File Share, access your diagnostic scripts, and diagnose and remediate the problems with the VM, returning it to operation.
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