Can't access my VM who IP I changed to static private IP

Question

Dear all,

Please help me to access my VM (server-2016), what I did is access my new created VM via the Public IP (RDP) then in the VM I assign a static Private IP(192.168.x.x) to the ethernet. now I am unable to access my VM. please suggest me a method to change the settings again to Dynamic to that I can access my VM.

Answer 1

Hi @Muhammad Tahir ,

please try if this helps: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/virtual-machines/reset-network-interface

If you want to provide a "static IP" to a VM please never do this inside the VM OS. Always set the IP to static from "outside" in the Azure Portal or PowerShell.

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Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 2

Hello @Muhammad Tahir ,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A platform. Happy to answer your question. The best course of action in these situations is generally to follow the guidance from the below document link, the article shows how to reset the network interface for Azure Windows VM to resolve issues when you cannot connect to Microsoft Azure Windows Virtual Machine (VM) after:
You disable the default Network Interface (NIC).
or
You manually set a static IP for the NIC.

virtual-networks-static-private-ip-arm-pportal

Later, you can follow the steps from virtual-networks-static-private-ip-arm-pportal to change the private IP address to static from azure VM blade on azure portal

Please "Accept as Answer" if any of above helped so that, it can help others in community looking for remediation for the similar issues.