Technical Requirements

This chapter has the following requirements for the examples:

• Access to an Azure subscription with owner or contributor privileges. If you do not have access to one, students can enroll for a free account at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/
• PowerShell 5.1 or later installed on a Windows PC or PowerShell Core 6.x on other operating systems, to practice the labs.
• Note that examples can only be followed from a PC or https://shell.azure.com (PowerShell 7.0.6 LTS or later is recommended).
• Installation of the Az PowerShell module, which can be performed by running the following in an administrative PowerShell session:

  Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
  Install-Module -Name Az -Scope CurrentUser -Repository PSGallery -Force