Disabling Azure Disk Encryption matters for the security of your Azure resources. This article will discuss the quick approaches to do this task.
Note: Before executing this command, ensure your VM is running.
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Let us dive deep into the two approaches individually.
Approach-1: Using PowerShell
You can use the Azure PowerShell command below for this purpose.
Disable-AzVMDiskEncryption -ResourceGroupName "newresgroup" -VMName "AzureLessonsVM" -VolumeType "all"After executing the above PowerShell command, I got the expected output, as shown in the screenshot below.
Click on the Yes button on the below pop up.
I logged in to the Azure Portal and navigated to the Azure VM. The screenshot below shows that the Azure disk encryption had been disabled.
Before executing the PowerShell script, Azure disk encryption was enabled, as shown in the screenshot below.
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Approach-2: Using Azure CLI
You can execute the below Azure CLI command to disable the Azure Disk Encryption.
az vm encryption disable --name "AzureLessonsVM" --resource-group "newresgroup" --volume-type "all"After executing the above Azure CLI command, I got the expected output as below, and the ADE had been disabled successfully.
Then, I verified in the Azure Portal and saw that the ADE had been disabled successfully.
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