Accept Microsoft Azure subscription ownership

Follow these instructions to setup your Azure environment. The screenshots may look a bit different than what you are seeing, but the flow is the same.

Accept the subscription ownership

Important

This is only done once.

A fully functional Microsoft Azure subscription will be created for you with credits. Most Azure services are available in this account.

Steps to accept and access your Azure subscription:

  1. In your student email inbox, you will have an email from Microsoft Azure with the subject You’ve been asked to accept Azure subscription ownership.
  2. Open the email.
  3. Right click in the blue box where it says Accept ownership and open the link in a private/incognito browser page
Important

It is always recommended that you do any of the cloud work in a private/incognito browser window

  1. In the sign in page enter your NetID@georgetown.eduNetID@georgetown.edu

  2. Authenticate with Georgetown University credentials and two-factor-authentication

  3. You will be prompted for additional information, click Next

  4. Once you enter all additional information, verify and click looks good

  5. You will continue the sign in process and asked if you would like to stayed sign in. Since you are using a private browser it doesn’t matter.

  6. You will end up in the Accept subscription ownership page. Click Review + accept

  7. Click Accept

  8. You will end up in Welcome to Azure page! and your Azure account is ready to be used!

Find your Azure Subscription information

  1. Click on Home or on Microsoft Azure in the top left
  2. Click on Subscriptions (the key icon). You will see a list of all subcriptions associated with you Azure account (which is in turn, associated with your Georgetown email)
  3. Click on the Subscriptions == global filter oval
  4. Uncheck the checkbox that says Show only subscriptions selected in the global subscriptions filter
  5. You will either see a subscription called ANLY502 Fall 2022_XXXXX_YYYYY where XXXX is your first name, and YYYY is your last name.
  6. Click on your subscription name
  7. In this page you can see all information regarding your subscription. You may want to keep the Subscription ID handy for identification purposes
Note

You will only have one subscription in your Georgetown Azure account unless you have created subscriptions in the past.

Log into the Azure Portal at a later time

To access the Azure Portal the future

  1. Open a private/incognito browser window
  2. Go to http://portal.azure.com - You may want to bookmark this
  3. Enter your with GU NetId and go through two factor authentication
  4. When you login to Azure, you will end up at the Home page

Set up your resource group

Note

Unlike AWS, Azure uses a logical grouping of resources called Resource Groups. While you don’t need to create a resource group in advance, we recommend you do.

Upload your public ssh key to Azure

Important

You will do this only once.

  1. Click on Home in the top left

  2. Type ssh keys in the search bar, and click on SSH Keys service

  3. Click Create

  4. Select the right subscription from the dropdown

  5. Select the RG you created earlier from the dropdown

  6. Give the key a name (it’s just a name, it doesn’t matter what it is as long as you know what it is)

  7. Select Upload existing public key from the SSH public key source dropdown

  8. In the Upload key box, paste the contents of your public key which is in the file ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub (Mac/Linux) or C:\\Users\<your_name>\.ssh\id_rsa.pub (Win) on your local machine. (See here for a quick refresher).

  9. Click Review + create

  10. After validation passes, click Create

  11. Once the SSH Key is uploaded, you’ll see it in the SSH Key list (if your right subscriptions are selected in the filter). You may have to hit “Refresh” on your browser for the page to update with your ssh key.

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