Sharing a VM to another user

Question

I am testing Azure VM with windows 10, but i do not know how to share the VM to another user. Thanks for the tip Roberth

Answer 1

@Roberth Cárdenas , Thank you for your question.

If you want to share access RDP access to the Azure VM running Windows 10 with another user, please perform the following actions:

1. Connect to the VM via RDP and login to the administrator account. [How-to guide]
2. Create a local user or administrator account in Windows 10. [How-to guide]
3. Navigate to Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools > Computer Management
4. Click Local Users and Groups, click Groups, then double-click Remote Desktop Users.
5. In Remote Desktop Properties dialog box, click Add… box. In Select Users dialog box, enter the account name and then click OK.

Once this is done, you can share the Azure Virtual Machine's Public IP Address (available on the Overview section in the Virtual Machine's Blade on the Azure Portal) and the credentials of the account you created in step 2 with the desired user(s) . With these, they should be able to RDP from their local machine using Win+R > mstsc.exe. (Computer name on the mstsc.exe Remote Desktop Connection dialog box should be the Virtual Machine's Public IP address)

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Instead, if you want to share access to the entire Virtual Machine resource on Azure with another user, please follow the steps here if the other user is a member user. If the other user is a guest user please follow the instructions here.

Note: Native members of a directory (member users) have different permissions than users invited from another directory as a B2B collaboration guest (guest users). For example, members user can read almost all directory information while guest users have restricted directory permissions. For more information about member users and guest users, see What are the default user permissions in Azure Active Directory?. For more information please check this section.

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