How to Uninstall Change Tracking Extension from 500 Azure Virtual Machines Efficiently?

Question

I have 500 Virtual Machines running in my Azure portal, and I’ve installed the Change Tracking extension on all of them. I need to uninstall this extension from all the VMs, but doing it manually is time-consuming. Could you suggest a more efficient way to remove the extension from all VMs simultaneously? Your guidance would be greatly appreciated. I have installed using the below MS article:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/change-tracking/manage-change-tracking-monitoring-agent?tabs=windows%2Csa-mi

Answer 1

Hi @Sujit Pochampalli ,

uninstalling/removing an Azure VM extension for 500 VMs should be possible using PowerShell.

1. Get all VMs (Get-AzVM)
2. For each VM run Remove-AzVMExtension

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