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Capture a VM image on a hosted machine to use as a template

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Enabled for Public preview Early access General availability
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically Mar 2025 - Jun 2025

Business value

With the VM (virtual machine) image capture capability, you can capture a VM image that you customized on a hosted machine. This VM image can then be used as a template for other hosted machines or hosted machine groups. This capability allows you to create your own reusable custom VM image in Power Automate.

Feature details

VM (virtual machine) image capture allows you to reuse the custom VM image for provisioning other hosted machines or hosted machine groups. It performs the following:

  • Snapshot: Point-in-time capture of the VM's disk.
  • Generalization: Removes machine and user specific information from the VM so that it can be reused.
  • Storage in your Azure Compute Gallery: Allows the VM image to be stored and usable by Power Automate services.