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chuckd
chuckd

Reputation: 14560

No option for creating a Visual Studio 2017 Pro VM in Azure

I want to migrate from what I'm using to develop now

  1. Windows 10 Pro in a VMWare Fusion VM
  2. Visual Studio 2017 Pro license through Azure monthly subscription
  3. Macbook Air 2013 1.7Ghz, 8Gb Ram

to something faster and I see I can create a Visual Studio VM in Azure, but I don't see any options for a VS Pro edition like I have. I only see a Community Edition and a Enterprise Edition for a pre built VM.

Do I select the Enterprise Edition and use that with my Pro license? In addition, would it be better to just upload my Windows 10 image with Visual Studio already on it to Azure and just use that instead? What would be the pros/cons?

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 523

Answers (1)

kim
kim

Reputation: 3421

Microsoft only offers Enterprise and Community versions of Visual Studio pre-installed on Server images, see this page for more info.

If you want to use Windows 10 as the OS, then you must have a MSDN subscription, or a test pay-as-you-go subscription, and using it create the VM. In this case Windows 10 is provided mainly for development and testing purposes.

Windows 10 is not available for normal, e.g. pay-as-you-go subscriptions, or other similar.

In my opinion, if you need to use Windows 10 and Visual Studio Pro, then your best bet would be to create the image yourself and upload it to Azure.

See this page for how to do that.

Upvotes: 2

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