schedule reboot

Question

How to create a policy for a scheduled reboot on a group of machine ?

Answer 1

Hi Daniel Houtmann

The policy restricts access by specifying allowed or denied actions. However, if you want to schedule a machine reboot, consider using an Automation Account.
1)Create an Automation account and Runbook

2)Connect to Azure with system-assigned managed identity (provide contributor rights to Managed identity).
Below is the PowerShell script:

 $AzureContext = (Connect-AzAccount -Identity).context
 # set and store context
 $AzureContext = Set-AzContext -SubscriptionName $AzureContext.Subscription -DefaultProfile $AzureContext
 # Connect to Azure (if not already connected) 
#Connect-AzAccount 
Select-AzSubscription -Subscription "SubscrpionName" 
# Define the tag key and value 
$TagKey = "Environment" 
$TagValue = "dev-Autoshutdown" 
# Get all VMs that have the specified tag value 
$VMs = Get-AzVM | Where-Object { $_.Tags[$TagKey] -eq $TagValue } 
# Stop the VMs 
foreach ($VM in $VMs) {     
Write-Host "Stopping VM: $($VM.Name) in Resource Group: $($VM.ResourceGroupName)"     
#For Stop use the Below Command in the Stop Dev VMs Run book     
Stop-AzVM -Name $VM.Name -ResourceGroupName $VM.ResourceGroupName -Force      
#For start use the Below Command in the Stop Dev VMs Run book     
#Start-AzVM -Name $VM.Name -ResourceGroupName $VM.ResourceGroupName 
} 
Write-Host "All dev-test tagged VMs have been powered off."

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