Expressroute Howto Erdirect - Document Details

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Flagged Code Snippets

   Get-AzExpressRoutePortsLocation -LocationName "Equinix-San-Jose-SV1" | format-list

   Get-AzExpressRoutePortsLocation | format-list

   Name                : Equinix-San-Jose-SV1
   Id                  : /subscriptions/<subscriptionID>/providers/Microsoft.Network/expressRoutePortsLocations/Equinix-San-Jose-
                        SV1
   ProvisioningState   : Succeeded
   Address             : 11 Great Oaks Blvd, SV1, San Jose, CA 95119
   Contact             : support@equinix.com
   AvailableBandwidths : [
                          {
                            "OfferName": "100 Gbps",
                            "ValueInGbps": 100
                          }
                        ]

1. Create the ExpressRoute Direct authorization by running the following commands in PowerShell:

## <a name="authorization"></a>Generate the Letter of Authorization (LOA)

Reference the recently created ExpressRoute Direct resource, input a customer name to write the LOA to and (optionally) define a file location to store the document. If a file path isn't referenced, the document downloads to the current directory.

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