Today, let’s discuss about basic Hyper-V operations defined in AzMan.

Displaying Hyper-V Operations

As explained in previous posts, all  pre-defined Hyper-V operations are stored in the InitialStore.XML file located under C:\Programdata\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V. You can view the list of operations from the AzMan console. However the output is not easy to view as is is confined inside a small dialog box.

Fortunately, you can also use PowerShell to get the same list with the AzMan COM object. Here is a snippet of PS script to get the list in a CSV file

$AppName = "Hyper-V Services"

##    Open the Hyper-V AzMan Store
##
$AZStore = new-object -COMObject AzRoles.AzAuthorizationStore
$AZStore.Initialize(0, "msxml://C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V\InitialStore.xml")

##
##    Access the  Default Scope
##
$HyperVApp     = $AZStore.OpenApplication($AppName)
$HyperVApp.Submit()

##
##   Get the list of operations
##

$HyperVApp | select Name, Description | export-csv c:\ListOfOperations.csv

You can then import the CSV file into Excel and create the following tables that group Hyper-V operations per category.

Enjoy!

/Dung

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