Download the VHD after running sysprep on Azure in DevTest labs

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I ran sysprep artifact on my VM in DevTest lab using az lab vm apply-artifacts command.

After that, when I run az lab vm show, I get back a computeId, which contains the resource id

compute ID looks like : "computeId": "/subscriptions/#####/resourceGroups/###/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/####".

How do I get the disk path from this. I am more interested in the SAS key, which I can use in AzCopy to download the vhd file associated with this VM.

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For now, Azure does not support use Azcopy to download the VHD from devtest lab.

As a workaround, we can create custom image from this VM (create a snapshot), then use PowerShell to copy this snapshot to another storage account via Azure PowerShell. enter image description here

Then we can use this PowerShell to copy this snapshot, Here are the script:

#Provide the subscription Id of the subscription where snapshot is created
$subscriptionId = "yourSubscriptionId"

#Provide the name of your resource group where snapshot is created
$resourceGroupName ="yourResourceGroupName"

#Provide the snapshot name 
$snapshotName = "yourSnapshotName"

#Provide Shared Access Signature (SAS) expiry duration in seconds e.g. 3600.
#Know more about SAS here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/storage-dotnet-shared-access-signature-part-1
$sasExpiryDuration = "3600"

#Provide storage account name where you want to copy the snapshot. 
$storageAccountName = "yourstorageaccountName"

#Name of the storage container where the downloaded snapshot will be stored
$storageContainerName = "yourstoragecontainername"

#Provide the key of the storage account where you want to copy snapshot. 
$storageAccountKey = 'yourStorageAccountKey'

#Provide the name of the VHD file to which snapshot will be copied.
$destinationVHDFileName = "yourvhdfilename"


# Set the context to the subscription Id where Snapshot is created
Select-AzureRmSubscription -SubscriptionId $SubscriptionId

#Get the snapshot using name and resource group
$snapshot = Get-AzureRmSnapshot -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -SnapshotName $SnapshotName 

#Generate the SAS for the snapshot 
$sas = Grant-AzureRmSnapshotAccess -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -SnapshotName $SnapshotName  -DurationInSecond $sasExpiryDuration -Access Read 

#Create the context for the storage account which will be used to copy snapshot to the storage account 
$destinationContext = New-AzureStorageContext –StorageAccountName $storageAccountName -StorageAccountKey $storageAccountKey  

#Copy the snapshot to the storage account 
Start-AzureStorageBlobCopy -AbsoluteUri $sas.AccessSAS -DestContainer $storageContainerName -DestContext $destinationContext -DestBlob $destinationVHDFileName

More information about this script, please refer to this link.

Update:

We can via Azure portal to create image, like this:

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