How to get the value of a virtual machine that has a tag=PURPOSE using PowerShell?

Question

$vm = Get-AzVM # Get all the vms
$vm
$vm.Tags # See all the Tags key value pairs.
$vm.Tags['PURPOSE'] # The key=PURPOSE is there but it does not give me its value.

Answer 1

@Martin Thong

I understand you have some VMs with the tag=PURPOSE. You are wanting to get a list of these VMs and also the value of the PURPOSE tag. Please let me know if I am misunderstanding the issue.

Please try this command and see if it works for you. During my testing it outputted the expected results.

Get-AzResource -ResourceType Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines -TagName "PURPOSE" | Format-Table Name, @{Name='PURPOSE'; Expression={$_.Tags['PURPOSE']}} 

Hope this help! Let me know if you still have questions.

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