I have often just built a some demo labs containing one or two VMs and then you want to add an additional VM to the same Resource Group, vNet, Subnet etc etc and still have the same naming conventions for all the components. I kind of found that bit difficult through the Azure portal, some component like a NIC or PIP would get a generated name or wouldnt follow the naming convention I had wanted.
So here we are with a little Powershell script that should help make it much easier.
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