Published • 4 min read
Using Azure Resource Manager in Azure Automation Runbooks
Learn the current best practices around using Azure Resource Manager functionality in Azure Automation runbooks, and plans for the future in this area.
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Published • 4 min read
Learn the current best practices around using Azure Resource Manager functionality in Azure Automation runbooks, and plans for the future in this area.
Automation, Uncategorized, visual-studio-online
Published • 3 min read
Start Azure Automation Runbooks using Visual Studio Online Service Hooks.
Published • 9 min read
Azure Automation is continually upgrading its runbook authoring features. In this post, we introduce the latest authoring tools and features that allow you to create sophisticated runbooks either with a graphical authoring model or with a PowerShell script authoring model.
Published • 5 min read
To keep you up-to-date on how your runbooks and jobs are performing in your Azure Automation accounts, I'll introduce a runbook New-AutomationReport.
Published • 1 min read
You asked, and we answered! This week marks the release of the latest version of the Azure PowerShell module. The update includes new cmdlets for accounts, assets, and scheduled runbooks.
Automation, How to, Management and Governance
Published • 6 min read
Thanks to the Windows PowerShell Remoting feature, Azure Automation can not only manage your Azure resources at an infrastructural level, but also reach inside VMs and execute commands.
Automation, Uncategorized, virtual-machines
Published • 1 min read
In this post, I'll show you how to setup your Chef environment to provision Azure Virtual Machines and walk you through creating a policy or "cookbook" and then deploying this cookbook to an Azure VM.
Automation, Uncategorized, scheduler
Published • 4 min read
Create a new Azure Scheduler job that starts any runbook in your Azure Automation accounts
Automation, Azure Virtual Machines, Compute, Management and Governance, Updates
Published • 5 min read
This post explains how to use an Azure Automation runbook to push a script or scriptblock to an Azure VM using the Custom Script extension component of the Azure VM Agent.
Published • 10 min read
If you’re familiar with Azure Automation, you’re probably aware that PowerShell is the fundamental technology that makes Azure Automation great. But PowerShell itself is great due to its extensibility through PowerShell modules.