How to turn on/off AX VM through Powershell

First, you need to install Azure PowerShell

Go to the Azure Downloads page and click the link to install the Azure PowerShell cmdlets.

Step 1: Get-AzureVM to find out all your VMs hosted on Azure. In my case i have one VM for AX2012 which was deployed through LCS

Make sure to copy ServiceName and Name

Step 2: How to start

Syntax: Start-AzureVM -ServiceName “AX2012R3-Demo-Demo-da16992830bbf75a” -Name “DEMO-41e1aa3f1f”

Refresh Azure Portal > VM > Status , you will see eventually the status will become “Running”

Step 3: How to stop

Syntax: Stop-AzureVM -ServiceName “AX2012R3-Demo-Demo-da16992830bbf75a” -Name “DEMO-41e1aa3f1f” -Force

Bonus:

How to get RDP file

Syntax: Get-AzureRemoteDesktopFile -ServiceName “AX2012R3-Demo-Demo-da16992830bbf75a” -Name “DEMO-41e1aa3f1f” -LocalPath “c:\temp\AzureAX.rdp”

How to launch RDP from command line directly

Syntax: Get-AzureRemoteDesktopFile -ServiceName $serviceName -Name $vmName –Launch

A session will pop up and prompt to connect to the VM

How to delete a virtual machine

Syntax: Remove-AzureVM -ServiceName “AX2012R3-Demo-Demo-da16992830bbf75a” -Name “DEMO-41e1aa3f1f” –DeleteVHD