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Using Azure Automation: Part 2

Summary: Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney discusses how to get started and test a basic runbook with Azure Automation. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here. Today I'm going to show you the basics you're going to need to make a useful runbook (or Windows PowerShell workflow, if that makes it easier to remember) in ...

Using Azure Automation: Part 1

Summary: Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney discusses how to get started with Windows PowerShell and Azure Automation. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here, and for the next five days we're going to touch on Azure Automation, which is a great way to automate control of your Azure resources without Internet access. Azure ...

Use PowerShell to Create Virtual Machine in Azure – Part 4

Summary: Learn how to leverage Desired State Configuration with a virtual machine in Microsoft Azure. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, here today filling in for my buddy Ed. Today I'll show you how to leverage Desired State Configuration (DSC) with a virtual machine in Microsoft Azure. This post is part of a series. To catch up, read...

Use PowerShell to Create Virtual Machine in Azure – Part 3

Summary: Learn how to spin up a virtual machine in Microsoft Azure. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney is here. Ed is still resting nicely, so today, I'll show you how to spin up a virtual machine in Microsoft Azure! If you add Get-Help against the New-AzureVM cmdlet, you'll have an example like this one: New-AzureVMConfig -Name "MyNewVM" -...