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 computer name prefix for all of the virtual machines in the scale set. Computer name prefixes must be 1 to 15 characters long.
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 machines in the scale set.
Specifies Windows operating system settings on the virtual machine.
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Describes a virtual machine scale set OS profile.