Scheduling Azure Virtual Machine (VM) Startup With Azure Automation And Tags

Step 1: Login to Azure portal

Go to virtual machines then chose the instances you want to schedule and assign tags like this.





Step 2: Then select



Then Add account and create like this.




In my case Automation acount name is AutiShut1

AutoShut1

Then create runbook




Edit the runbook




Paste this code - change the tag accordingly

$Conn = Get-AutomationConnection -Name AzureRunAsConnection

Add-AzureRMAccount -ServicePrincipal -Tenant $Conn.TenantID -ApplicationId $Conn.ApplicationID -CertificateThumbprint $Conn.CertificateThumbprint

$VMs = Get-AzureRMVM | where {$_.Tags.Values -like '*6pmStart*'}

$VMs | Start-AzureRMVM

Write-Output $VMs.Name

Then click Save and Test pane

Then start to see the results.

Then Create schedule

Once you create the schedule link to the runbooks