How to delete Azure Managed Disk snapshots older than 7 days using Powershell?

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_{Tuesday, June 27, 2017 12:11 PM}

We take daily automated snapshots of the Managed Disks. The snapshots are named as: ['AppDisk_snapshot_AM' + "_" + (Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MM-dd")]

Snaphoshots are stored on "/subscriptions/[subscription ID]/resourceGroups/[Resource Group Name]/providers/Microsoft.Compute/snapshots"

I would like to know how can I delete these snapshots that are older than 7 days and keep the newest. Thank you.

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_{Monday, June 26, 2017 12:30 PM}

We take daily automated snapshots of the Managed Disks. The snapshots are named as: ['AppDisk_snapshot_AM' + "_" + (Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MM-dd")]

Snaphoshots are stored on "/subscriptions/[subscription ID]/resourceGroups/[Resource Group Name]/providers/Microsoft.Compute/snapshots"

I would like to know how can I delete these snapshots that are older than 7 days and keep the newest. Thank you.

_{Monday, June 26, 2017 12:45 PM}

See if this link helps you

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/igorpag/2017/03/14/azure-managed-disks-deep-dive-lessons-learned-and-benefits/

Best Regards,Uri Dimant SQL Server MVP, http://sqlblog.com/blogs/uri_dimant/

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_{Tuesday, June 27, 2017 12:10 PM | 1 vote}

Hello - It was resolved with the script below:

$rg = 'Resource Group Name'
$snapshotnames = (Get-AzureRmSnapshot -ResourceGroupName $rg).name

foreach($snapname in $snapshotnames)
{
    Get-AzureRmSnapshot -ResourceGroupName $rg  -SnapshotName $snapname |?{$_.id -like '*AppDisk*'} | ?{($_.TimeCreated).ToString('yyyyMMdd') -lt ([datetime]::Today.AddDays(-1).tostring('yyyyMMdd'))} | remove-azurermsnapshot -force

} 

_{Tuesday, June 27, 2017 12:13 PM | 1 vote}

Hello - managed to resolve with the code below. Thank you for the assistance

_{Wednesday, June 28, 2017 6:57 AM}

Hi gamarcon,

Since this forum is discussing and asking questions about the SQL Server, and your issue is more related to Microsoft Azure, I will move this thread to the more related forum.

Thanks for your understanding and support.

Best Regards,

Teige

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