A requirements to run Dashboard-AzureVM is to create and upload a Windows Azure Management Certificate.
Here are the complete step-by-step guide to create it:
- If you have a Certification Authority you can create it directly or
- Get
makecert tool from
Windows 8 SDK
- Run the following commands to generate the needed certificate on the “My” store of the LocalMachine and create a .CER file used by the Dashboard-AzureVM:
makecert -r -pe -n "CN=%AzureUsername%" -ss My -sr LocalMachine -sp "Microsoft Enhanced RSA and AES Cryptographic Provider" -sy 24 -len 2048 -sky exchange C:\MyAzureServiceCertificate.cer
- Upload the MyAzureServiceCertificate.cer to the
Windows Azure Management Portal
- Keep the MyAzureServiceCertificate.cer in a known folder as it will be required by Dashboard-AzureVM