{"id":2713,"date":"2013-10-18T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/10\/18\/powertip-change-the-startup-action-on-virtual-machine-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2013-10-18T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-change-the-startup-action-on-virtual-machine-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-change-the-startup-action-on-virtual-machine-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Change the Startup Action on Virtual Machine with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Change the startup action on virtual machines by using Windows PowerShell.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to fix the startup state for a virtual machine that isn&rsquo;t starting automatically?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<strong>Set-VM<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet to easily adjust the settings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">To automatically start a virtual machine every time:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">SET-VM &ndash;name CONTOSOVM1 &ndash;AutomaticStartAction Start<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">To ensure that a virtual machine does NOT start automatically:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">SET-VM &ndash;name CONTOSOVM1 &ndash;AutomaticStartAction Nothing<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Change the startup action on virtual machines by using Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to fix the startup state for a virtual machine that isn&rsquo;t starting automatically? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Set-VM&nbsp;cmdlet to easily adjust the settings. To automatically start a virtual machine every time: SET-VM &ndash;name CONTOSOVM1 &ndash;AutomaticStartAction Start To ensure that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[271,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-hyper-v","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Change the startup action on virtual machines by using Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to fix the startup state for a virtual machine that isn&rsquo;t starting automatically? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Set-VM&nbsp;cmdlet to easily adjust the settings. To automatically start a virtual machine every time: SET-VM &ndash;name CONTOSOVM1 &ndash;AutomaticStartAction Start To ensure that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}