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December 26th, 2012

PowerTip: Checkpoint Virtual Machine by Using PowerShell

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Summary: Use Windows PowerShell 3.0 and Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 to checkpoint all virtual machines on a system.

Hey, Scripting Guy! Question How can I checkpoint all of my virtual machines by using Windows PowerShell 3.0 and either Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012?

Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer Use the Get-VM cmdlet and pipe the results to the Checkpoint-VM cmdlet, as shown here.

get-vm -ComputerName hyperv2 | checkpoint-vm

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