Windows Server 2008 R2 host running A Hyper-V Windows 2000 Server guest VM.
I am looking for a simple way (either batch, VBS or PowerShell command) to shutdown the guest VM and then start it up at a time of my choosing.
I have installed the "PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V" and used the following commands with success ONLY after right-clicking PowerShell and selecting "Run as Administrator":
Import-Module "C:\Program Files\modules\HyperV\HyperV.psd1"
shutdown-vm "VM_NAME" -force
However no matter what I do I can not get this run as a scheduled task. it does not error out but it just doesn't run.
I have tried several combinations using the "Start-Process powershell -verb runas" which if I manually type that command into PowerShell will bring up another PowerShell box run in admin context I assume but none of this I can get working with a scheduled task.