The Virtual Machine Contributor role should be able to take and manage snapshots
The virtual machine contributor role should be able to manage all aspects of virtual machines.
Currently the role does not have the ability to take snapshots of disks attached to VMs which is a standard administration task for managing VMs.
It shouldn't be necessary to need to create a custom role for this.

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