Interface OSProfile

Specifies the password of the administrator account.

Minimum-length (Windows): 8 characters

Minimum-length (Linux): 6 characters

Max-length (Windows): 123 characters

Max-length (Linux): 72 characters

Complexity requirements: 3 out of 4 conditions below need to be fulfilled
Has lower characters
Has upper characters
Has a digit
Has a special character (Regex match [\W_])

Disallowed values: "abc@123", "P@$$w0rd", "P@ssw0rd", "P@ssword123", "Pa$$word", "pass@word1", "Password!", "Password1", "Password22", "iloveyou!"

For resetting the password, see How to reset the Remote Desktop service or its login password in a Windows VM

For resetting root password, see Manage users, SSH, and check or repair disks on Azure Linux VMs using the VMAccess Extension

Specifies the name of the administrator account.

Windows-only restriction: Cannot end in "."

Disallowed values: "administrator", "admin", "user", "user1", "test", "user2", "test1", "user3", "admin1", "1", "123", "a", "actuser", "adm", "admin2", "aspnet", "backup", "console", "david", "guest", "john", "owner", "root", "server", "sql", "support", "support_388945a0", "sys", "test2", "test3", "user4", "user5".

Minimum-length (Linux): 1 character

Max-length (Linux): 64 characters

Max-length (Windows): 20 characters

Specifies the host OS name of the virtual machine.

This name cannot be updated after the VM is created.

Max-length (Windows): 15 characters

Max-length (Linux): 64 characters.

For naming conventions and restrictions see Azure infrastructure services implementation guidelines.

Specifies a base-64 encoded string of custom data. The base-64 encoded string is decoded to a binary array that is saved as a file on the Virtual Machine. The maximum length of the binary array is 65535 bytes.

For using cloud-init for your VM, see Using cloud-init to customize a Linux VM during creation

Specifies the Linux operating system settings on the virtual machine.

For a list of supported Linux distributions, see Linux on Azure-Endorsed Distributions

For running non-endorsed distributions, see Information for Non-Endorsed Distributions.

Specifies set of certificates that should be installed onto the virtual machine.

Specifies Windows operating system settings on the virtual machine.