Azure Virtual Machines
An Azure service that is used to provision Windows and Linux virtual machines.
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Found it, it's 'Virtual Machine Contributor' role.
Is there an Azure built-in role that can start/stop/restart virtual machines?
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Paul Nerie
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I seen how to do it by creating a custom role:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23668154/allow-users-to-start-stop-particular-azure-vms/49925159
Isn't there built-in role to do this?
Or can you directly assign a user such permissions on a VM without creating a role?
Thanks in advance!
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vipullag-MSFT 26,211 Reputation points2021-09-15T05:13:43.557+00:00 Thanks for confirming that the issue is resolved.
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Paul Nerie 271 Reputation points
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Paul Jenkins 0 Reputation points2023-09-22T18:59:10.75+00:00 Paul, thank you very much for taking the time to share this very clear walk-thru. I appreciate it!
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Lopez, Jose Ramon 11 Reputation points2023-06-07T14:21:20.98+00:00 Virtual machine contributor gives more access than start/stopping/restarting a vm. better way is a custom rol as the link provided by Paul Nerie
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Vladimir Petrov 0 Reputation points2024-08-19T07:42:47.9066667+00:00 True, here are all the actions that vm contributor gives, better use the custom role above.
"actions": [ "Microsoft.Authorization/*/read", "Microsoft.Compute/availabilitySets/*", "Microsoft.Compute/locations/*", "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/*", "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/*", "Microsoft.Compute/cloudServices/*", "Microsoft.Compute/disks/write", "Microsoft.Compute/disks/read", "Microsoft.Compute/disks/delete", "Microsoft.DevTestLab/schedules/*", "Microsoft.Insights/alertRules/*", "Microsoft.Network/applicationGateways/backendAddressPools/join/action", "Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/backendAddressPools/join/action", "Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/inboundNatPools/join/action", "Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/inboundNatRules/join/action", "Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/probes/join/action", "Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/read", "Microsoft.Network/locations/*", "Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/*", "Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups/join/action", "Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups/read", "Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/join/action", "Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/read", "Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/read", "Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/subnets/join/action", "Microsoft.RecoveryServices/locations/*", "Microsoft.RecoveryServices/Vaults/backupFabrics/backupProtectionIntent/write", "Microsoft.RecoveryServices/Vaults/backupFabrics/protectionContainers/protectedItems/*/read", "Microsoft.RecoveryServices/Vaults/backupFabrics/protectionContainers/protectedItems/read", "Microsoft.RecoveryServices/Vaults/backupFabrics/protectionContainers/protectedItems/write", "Microsoft.RecoveryServices/Vaults/backupPolicies/read", "Microsoft.RecoveryServices/Vaults/backupPolicies/write", "Microsoft.RecoveryServices/Vaults/read", "Microsoft.RecoveryServices/Vaults/usages/read", "Microsoft.RecoveryServices/Vaults/write", "Microsoft.ResourceHealth/availabilityStatuses/read", "Microsoft.Resources/deployments/*", "Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/resourceGroups/read", "Microsoft.SerialConsole/serialPorts/connect/action", "Microsoft.SqlVirtualMachine/*", "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/listKeys/action", "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/read", "Microsoft.Support/*"
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Birendra Singh 181 Reputation points2021-09-15T06:22:39.34+00:00 Hi There,
Adding Azure AD users in RBAC of VM and assigning them Virtual Machine Contributor role can help on that
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Paul Nerie 271 Reputation points
2021-09-15T08:09:47.593+00:00 Thank you BIRENDRA. I figured it out earlier.
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