ChangeLog.md

3.9.2 2022 12th of November

• 3.9.1 was broken for date entry, thanks to MadPB for pointing this out.

3.9.1 2022 7th of November

• Compensate for when conversion to UTC ends up on wrong day. Thanks to sivagithub25 for pointing this out.

3.9 2022 11th of April

• Added ability to specify Azure environment. Thanks to Hank McCord for contributing this change.

3.8 2021 29th of November

• Bugfix, authentication did not always work, change the readme text to be a bit clearer.

3.8 2021 3rd of November

• Sometimes stop did not work

3.7 2021 31st of October

• Added possibility to use System or User Managed Identity
• Added to have several shutdown only times
• Added better validation and error reporting of the tags

3.5 2020 30th of December

Added deallocation of machines stopped but not deallocated

3.4 2020 4th of July

Cloned the original script from Automys

These are the changes and enhancements made:

• Added time zone, to be able to use local times

• Allows two machines with the same name but in different resource groups

• Starts and stops machines in parallel

• Allows the schedule to be temporarily invalidated by simply adding an 'X' to the tag name: AutoShutdownScheduleX

• Changed from AzureRM to Az modules, removed the need for the Azure modules

• These are the allowed tags:

  • 19:00->08:00
  • 7pm->8am
    • Turns off between 19 and 08, turns on at other times
  • Sunday
    • Turns off Sundays, turns on at other times
  • 12-24
  • December 24
    • Turns off 24th of December, turns on at other times
  • 19:00->08:00,Sunday
    • Turns off between 19 and 08 and on Sundays, turns on at other times
  • 17:00
    • Turns off at 17, does never start, has to be alone in the tag

• All tags can be combined comma separated, except the last one.

The script cannot control classic Azure machines.