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Announcing General Availability of Scheduled Actions for Azure Virtual Machines

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Nov 18, 2025
Managing VMs at scale in Azure can be a pain. Subscription throttling can prevent your operations from being received, and having to track and retry intermittent failures adds extra overhead. Schedul...
Updated Nov 18, 2025
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Stanislav_Zhelyazkov
MVP
Dec 11, 2025

It is unclear how these APIs could be used. Some of the APIs are confusing as they contain same property but with different lower/upper case letters for example deadline and deadLine. The descriptions of the properties are not clear as well. The name schedule implies to me that you can create some re-occurring schedules but I have not seen such options in the API. At best you can only set a single date in the future.