Hello!

These 2 simple Runbooks stops and starts virtual machines in Azure.

Turning off your resources at night is a pretty good way to save money, if your resources doesn’t need to be on at night that is.

The only thing you need to change in the script below is -ResourceGroupName & -Name

If you have any further questions, feel free to comment down below 🙂

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Runbooks

Complete Runbooks that you can copy/paste

Start:

## Connect to Azure via your RunAsAccount
$Conn = Get-AutomationConnection -Name AzureRunAsConnection
Connect-AzureRmAccount -ServicePrincipal -Tenant $Conn.TenantID -ApplicationId $Conn.ApplicationID -CertificateThumbprint $Conn.CertificateThumbprint | Out-Null
## To be executed
Start-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName "ServerGroup" -Name "Server01"

 

Stop:

## Connect to Azure via your RunAsAccount
$Conn = Get-AutomationConnection -Name AzureRunAsConnection
Connect-AzureRmAccount -ServicePrincipal -Tenant $Conn.TenantID -ApplicationId $Conn.ApplicationID -CertificateThumbprint $Conn.CertificateThumbprint | Out-Null
## To be executed
Stop-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName "ServerGroup" -Name "Server01"