Month: April 2017

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Azure VM deletion using the PowerShell script

Often you might receive a request to Delete multiple VMs from Azure. its little cumbersome to delete VM and its components from portal. Automation minimize the time and avoid human errors. This could cover the below scenarios: Delete VM, its associated NICs and disks. The following guide assumes that the user has basic knowledge of…
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Azure ARM Blob Snapshot – Azure Automation

We have had some tough time backing up virtual machines based out of customized VHD and running OS prior to Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, The reason being, Azure Virtual Machine Guest agent does is not supported in any of these OS, i.e. Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows XP, etc. (You might wonder is it…
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Assign Tags for virtual machines provided in an input file

Automation | VM Tags Creation Overview Tagcreation.ps1 is a PowerShell script to create tags for all VMs provided in the input csv, Azure tag is an important feature that helps you to identify the deviation and make them standard. Also you can make use of tags in the Azure automation runbook to customise many automation…
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Attach Data disks for all VMs provided in the input file

Automation | VM Disk Attachment Overview Disk_attach.ps1 is a PowerShell script to attach data disks for all VMs provided in the input csv. The following guide assumes that the user has basic knowledge of using Windows and PowerShell. Although some familiarity with the Azure Portal would be beneficial, it is absolutely not necessary, as a…
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