{"id":3577,"date":"2013-05-26T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/05\/26\/powertip-use-powershell-to-eject-dvds-from-group-of-virtual-machines\/"},"modified":"2013-05-26T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-eject-dvds-from-group-of-virtual-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-eject-dvds-from-group-of-virtual-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Eject DVDs from Group of Virtual Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to eject the DVDs from a group of virtual machines.<\/span><\/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 eject any mounted DVDs from a group of virtual machines that are running Hyper-V in Windows Server&nbsp;2012?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><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 <strong>Set-VMDvdDrive<\/strong> cmdlet and set the path to <strong>$null<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">$name = &#8220;Client1&#8243;,&#8221;Server1&#8243;,&#8221;Server2&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">$name | Foreach {Set-VMDvdDrive -VMName $_ -Path $null}<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: 12px\" 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: Use Windows PowerShell to eject the DVDs from a group of virtual machines. &nbsp;How can I eject any mounted DVDs from a group of virtual machines that are running Hyper-V in Windows Server&nbsp;2012? &nbsp;Use the Set-VMDvdDrive cmdlet and set the path to $null: $name = &#8220;Client1&#8243;,&#8221;Server1&#8243;,&#8221;Server2&#8221; $name | Foreach {Set-VMDvdDrive -VMName $_ -Path $null}<\/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":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to eject the DVDs from a group of virtual machines. &nbsp;How can I eject any mounted DVDs from a group of virtual machines that are running Hyper-V in Windows Server&nbsp;2012? &nbsp;Use the Set-VMDvdDrive cmdlet and set the path to $null: $name = &#8220;Client1&#8243;,&#8221;Server1&#8243;,&#8221;Server2&#8221; $name | Foreach {Set-VMDvdDrive -VMName $_ -Path $null}<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577","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=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/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=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}