HI, how can i prevent public IP addresses from being assigned to Azure VMs? Is there a policy available. Can't see one?

when you create VM, during networking you are presented with new public IP automatically with some name like "server1-ip"

you can select their none and VM will get created without public IP address

If you forgot to do that, later on from VM properties \ networking tab select network card from right and click on that and disassociate public IP from console and later on delete that public IP

Or you can export the build as a ARM template, customize it then is it instead

Thanks both. All that i understand. But is there a policy that i can apply to the subscription that will prevent the public IP address from being applied to a VM?

Brilliant - Thank you.