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The provisioning agents installed on the VMs handle interfacing with the platform and placing it on the file system.
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### Windows
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Custom data is placed in %SYSTEMDRIVE%\AzureData\CustomData.bin as a binary file, but it is not processed. If you wish to process this file, you will need to build a custom image, and write code to process the CustomData.bin.
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Custom data is placed in *%SYSTEMDRIVE%\AzureData\CustomData.bin* as a binary file, but it is not processed. If you wish to process this file, you will need to build a custom image, and write code to process the CustomData.bin.
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### Linux
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On Linux OS's, custom data is passed to the VM via the ovf-env.xml file, which is copied to the /var/lib/waagent directory during provisioning. Newer versions of the Microsoft Azure Linux Agent will also copy the base64-encoded data to /var/lib/waagent/CustomData as well for convenience.
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On Linux OS's, custom data is passed to the VM via the ovf-env.xml file, which is copied to the */var/lib/waagent* directory during provisioning. Newer versions of the Microsoft Azure Linux Agent will also copy the base64-encoded data to */var/lib/waagent/CustomData* as well for convenience.
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Azure currently supports two provisioning agents:
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* Linux Agent - By default the agent will not process custom data, you will need to build a custom image with it enabled. These are the relevant settings, as per the [documentation](https://github.com/Azure/WALinuxAgent#configuration):

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