Configure Automatic Hyper-V Checkpoints using PowerShell ( One-Liners )

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Since the release 1709 of Windows 10, a new Hyper-V feature called Automatic Checkpoints made its appearance. By default, its enabled globally and can be only be configured/controlled on the Guest VM level.

Two options here.

• can be configured through VM Settings GUI.
• using PowerShell.

Below is described the way of configuring automatic checkpoints behavior using PowerShell.

Enable automatic checkpoints for an individual VM.

Set-VM -VMName "NameOfTheVM" -AutomaticCheckpointsEnabled $True

Disable automatic checkpoints for an individual VM.

Set-VM -VMName "NameOfTheVM" -AutomaticCheckpointsEnabled $False

Enable automatic checkpoints on all the VM’s.

Set-VM -VMName * -AutomaticCheckpointsEnabled $True

Disable automatic checkpoints on all the VM’s.

Set-VM -VMName * -AutomaticCheckpointsEnabled $False

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