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Automation: Classic Run As account
You can now create a Classic Run As account from the Azure portal.
July 2016
Automation schedules support time zones and daylight saving
Azure Automation schedules now support time zones and adjust for daylight saving based on the schedule’s time zone.
May 2016
Automation scheduling feature update
Automation supports weekly and monthly schedules. With these recurrence options, you can select days of the week or days of the month for your schedule to run on.
Run your own custom Automation tasks in response to VM alerts
When you create an alert rule on an Azure virtual machine, you can run your own custom task when the alert is triggered. New alert remediation tasks are also available.
Automation: New graphical runbook type based on native PowerShell
Azure Automation introduces a new graphical runbook type based on native PowerShell. It provides quick runbook starts and easier authoring.
Automation Runbook Gallery update
The Azure Automation Runbook Gallery supports script content from the PowerShell Gallery.
April 2016
Southeast Australia region available for Azure Automation
Azure Automation is available in the Azure Southeast Australia region.
Automation: Run As account
In Azure Automation, you can create an Azure Run As account (service principal) to use for authenticating with Azure when managing Azure Resource Manager resources.
March 2016
Update: Automation Hybrid Worker
An update to Automation Hybrid Worker has just been released.
Update: Automation Graphical Authoring SDK
An update to the public preview of the Microsoft Azure Automation Graphical Authoring SDK has been released.
Automation: Activity output object properties exposed to simplify graphical runbook authoring
To save you time when you author graphical runbooks in Azure Automation, the authoring UX exposes the property hierarchy of activity output objects so that you can choose to use a selected object property as input to another activity.
February 2016
Azure Automation classic portal redirect to new Azure portal spring 2016
Target availability: Q1 2016
UPDATE March 15, 2016: Automation is rescheduling the retirement of the classic portal to a later time in spring 2016. ORIGINAL POST: Azure Automation will retire the classic portal in early March, and the new Azure portal will become the sole access point.
Automation: Updated ARM modules shipping in the service
Azure Automation has released updated versions of the Azure ARM modules in the service.
Automation module gallery
The Azure Automation module gallery provides the ability to import modules from the PowerShell Gallery without leaving your Automation account.
January 2016
Public preview: Automation Graphical Authoring SDK
The Microsoft Azure Automation Graphical Authoring SDK enables developers to create and edit graphical runbooks for use with the Azure Automation service.
General availability: Azure Automation Desired State Configuration
With Azure Automation Desired State Configuration, you can consistently deploy, reliably monitor, and automatically update the desired state of all your IT resources, at scale, from the cloud.
Azure Automation: Graphical and PowerShell runbooks added to Gallery
To help with common automation tasks, four new graphical runbooks and two new PowerShell runbooks are available in the Automation gallery.
December 2015
Automation: Configure checkpoints in graphical runbooks
In Azure Automation graphical runbooks you can now set checkpoints to assure that activities do not get repeated if the runbook needs to restart.
Azure Resource Manager support in runbooks
Azure Automation now provides the AzureRM.profile and AzureRM.Compute Azure Resource Manager PowerShell modules as global modules for use in your runbooks.
General availability: Azure Automation
Azure Automation, the service that automates the management of your cloud and on-premises resources, is generally available in the new Azure portal.
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