Executable Powershell script that will assist me in removing the Microsoft Monitoring Agent extension from virtual machines given in an Azure subscription.

Question

It is a laborious task to remove the legacy extension by logging into each individual VM because I have more than 500 in my subscription.

Answer 1

Hi Vikram,

I am Dave, I will help you with this.

I apologize, Community is just a consumer forum, due to the scope of your question can you please post this question to our sister forum on Microsoft Q&A (The System Administrators and IT Pro Frum)

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Answer 2

I have tried the below script throwing me an Error. But the Resource group still Exists

#Connect to Azure

Connect-AzAccount

#Specify the subscription ID

$subscriptionId = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

#Get the list of virtual machines in the subscription

$vms = Get-AzVM -Status -ResourceGroupName "rg-aspera-dev-01"

#Loop through each virtual machine and remove the Microsoft Monitoring Agent extension

foreach ($vm in $vms) {

Check if the Microsoft Monitoring Agent extension is installed

if ($vm.Extensions | Where-Object { $.Publisher -eq "Microsoft.EnterpriseCloud.Monitoring" -and $.ExtensionType -eq "MicrosoftMonitoringAgent" }) {

Remove the Microsoft Monitoring Agent extension

Remove-AzVMExtension -ResourceGroupName $vm.ResourceGroupName -VMName $vm.Name -Name "MicrosoftMonitoringAgent" -Force

}

}

ERROR:

ErrorCode: ResourceGroupNotFound

ErrorMessage: Resource group 'rg-aspera-dev-01' could not be found.

ErrorTarget:

StatusCode: 404

ReasonPhrase: Not Found

OperationID : 40634be7-1dd1-4aba-9049-280989ec523d