Whats my Azure VM administrator user name

Question

My laptop is not working, so I'm trying to create an rdp connection to my azure VM on another computer. I do remember the password but not the username. Where can I find it?

Answer 1

[Update] - [26 March 2020] Now with updated Azure screens and view, we do not have option to retrieve Azure VM username from portal but there is a workaround.

• Go to "Reset Password" on the left pane of your Azure portal window for your VM. Now add username and password and update. With this new username and password, you can login to VM machine and find your old/original username.

[OLD ANSWER - Not Valid Now]: While troubleshooting I tried to find the newly created VM's username with below steps, I hope this will help someone.

1) Go to "Virtual Machines" section on your Azure portal.

2) Select your newly created Virtual Machine name.

3) Click on the "Connect" link just next to the "Start" in the selection bar.

4) There will be a new blade opened for you on the right, with two tabs "RDP" and "SSH".

5) Select the "SSH", there next to the "Login using your VM local account" you find ssh yourusername@"VM's IP address".

you can use yourusername to login to the machine with required password.