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I am working as an Azure Cloud Engineer in Microsoft. Recently I received a customer support request where the customer was complaining that the auto start did not work as expected. But probably he was unclear about scheduling auto start task for his VM due to lack of documentation. He wanted to scheduled an auto start task for his VM once every day for a month. But he observed that the VM auto started only for 1 day and did not start the next day onwards. While troubleshooting I observed that he had mentioned "1" in the Interval tab and "Month" in the Frequency tab which suggests the auto start to work once in a month and hence it did not start everyday. Configuring automation for Start/stop VM is a very common requirement for the customers. Since currently Tasks feature is in Preview, many customers can get confused, similar to my customer and end up opening tickets. As I do not see any documents available specific to scheduling auto start/stop task for the VM, I wanted to publish a document from scratch for creating Automation tasks for auto start/stop for a VM, but I am not sure about the process to do that. Hence I have just updated the existing document so that customers can easily identify how the task scheduling works. Please review it and provide your feedback.
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> This capability is in preview and is subject to the
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> [Supplemental Terms of Use for Microsoft Azure Previews](https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/preview-supplemental-terms/).
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To help you manage [Azure resources](../azure-resource-manager/management/overview.md#terminology) more easily, you can create automated management tasks for a specific resource or resource group. These tasks vary in number and availability, based on the resource type. For example, for an [Azure storage account](../storage/common/storage-account-overview.md), you can set up an automation task that sends the monthly cost for that storage account. For an [Azure virtual machine](https://azure.microsoft.com/services/virtual-machines/), you can create an automation task that turns on or turns off that virtual machine on a predefined schedule.
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To help you manage [Azure resources](../azure-resource-manager/management/overview.md#terminology) more easily, you can create automated management tasks for a specific resource or resource group. These tasks vary in number and availability, based on the resource type. For example, for an [Azure storage account](../storage/common/storage-account-overview.md), you can set up an automation task that sends the monthly cost for that storage account. For an [Azure virtual machine](https://azure.microsoft.com/services/virtual-machines/), you can create an automation task that turns on or turns off that virtual machine on a predefined schedule. You can schedule a task to auto start/stop a virtual machine n number of times every Day/Week/Month by mentioning the values of **Interval** as "n" and **Frequency** as “Day”,"Week"or "Month" in the Task configuration.The automation task continues to work until you delete or disbale it.
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For example, you can schedule a task to auto start a VM **once every day** by mentioning the values of Interval as “1” and Frequency as “Day” in the Task **configure** tab.
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You can create an automation task from a specific automation task template. The following table lists the currently supported resource types and available task templates in this preview:
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