useless tip on page

[thelostfrayman]

hi, There is a tip on this page on how you should optimize your image by using DSIM, which is nice except the page is specifically about preparing an image in azure, so this tip which says to double click on the image in "windows explorer' and mount it is useless for 2 reasons:

1. we're currently talking bout a vm not an image (this is just an article on preparing the image)
2. even after you create the image you don't have it in "windows explorer" you either have a legacy image or an image in an image gallery..

if there is a way to optimize the image from either the az cli or azure powershell then that should be the content and it should be moved to an article that discuss how to build the images and optimize the images when the image is created in azure

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• Content: Deprovision or generalize a VM before creating an image - Azure Virtual Machines
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[ManoharLakkoju-MSFT]

@thelostfrayman Thanks for your feedback! We will investigate and update as appropriate.

[cynthn]

@thelostfrayman I agree, that tip should go into the doc about preparing a local image to upload to Azure. I've moved it. Thank you :)