After creating and configuring the Azure virtual machine:

1. Refresh the page until the status changes from Deployment is in progress to Your deployment is complete.
2. Wait a few minutes more. 

You can then connect to the virtual machine with SSH:

1. Copy the IP of the virtual machine.
2. Open an SSH session into the virtual machine
3. Authenticate with the following credentials.
   
   • The username sysadmin of the default Entrust PKI Hub administrator.
   • The SSH key described in Creating the SSH key for Azure.
4. When prompted, change the changeme initial password with a password meeting the requirements described in Password policy CIS benchmarks.