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Has anyone had success using the <https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/azure-native/api-docs/compute/virtualmachineextension/|VirtualMachineExtension> resource to run a custom powershell script (<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/extensions/custom-script-windows>) from a blob container? No matter what I try with `Settings` or `ProtectedSettings`, I keep getting errors back from Azure stating they haven't been able to decode the settings string :confused: I've verified the script works fine having manually deployed the script from Azure portal.

`VirtualMachineExtensions` is the extensions you want to install on the VM (basically what you see under Extensions + applications in the portal).

The Custom Script for Windows (`microsoft.compute.customscriptextension`) is the extension you have to have installed in order to run remote commands on the server.

You can also invoke scripts via the `VirtualMachineRunCommandByVirtualMachine` interface which has a parameter for referencing a URI for the script you want to run and alternatively just provide the script content directly.
<https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/azure-native/api-docs/compute/virtualmachineruncommandbyvirtualmachine/>

Edit: It also seems to be possible to invoke scripts via `VirtualMachineExtensions` with `type=CustomScriptExtension` and a specific payload if `VirtualMachineRunCommandByVirtualMachine` is not something you want, see:
<https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-azure-native/issues/694#issuecomment-957817895>