Practice Find deallocated Azure VMs

Find deallocated Azure VMs

Exercise 1 min read Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7

Written and tested by Dhrub Bharali · Updated 02 October 2026

Return the VMs that are deallocated.

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Get-AzVM -Status | Where-Object PowerState -eq 'VM deallocated' | Select-Object Name

Deallocated VMs release their compute costs. Confirm which VMs are in that state before the cost report goes out.

Return the VMs that are deallocated.

'VM deallocated' is a distinct state from 'VM stopped': deallocated releases the hardware allocation, stopped keeps it reserved.

Run the source by itself and inspect the sample objects. Add each filter separately, then check the final properties and order.

The browser uses a small fictional dataset. Real results depend on the host, module, account and target environment.

Choose an answer, then check your reasoning.

Worked solution

Reveal one approach

1PS> Get-AzVM -Status | Where-Object PowerState -eq 'VM deallocated' | Select-Object Name

Write your pipeline below and run it against the fictional sample data, then check your result against the expected answer.

Your pipeline

Interactive simulation · fictional data