Publish your Module to PowerShell Gallery with Azure Automation Connection

Recently PowerShell Gallery received a feature that you can deploy Modules from PowerShell Gallery to Azure Automation (part of OMS). You can upload PowerShell Modules to Azure Automation with little or not change to the module. If you want to make your PowerShell module more appealing and easy to use in Azure Automation you can create so called Connection. You can read more here. Recently I was able to confirm that if you publish your PowerShell Module with Connection to the PowerShell gallery that Connection will be imported as well when you import your module to Azure Automation. Continue reading “Publish your Module to PowerShell Gallery with Azure Automation Connection”

Azure Automation – Hybrid Worker Setup

It is May 4th which marks the start of Microsoft Ignite 2015 and of course new Azure features start to appear. So first Azure Automation is now available in the preview portal: Continue reading “Azure Automation – Hybrid Worker Setup”

Azure Automation is Faster Than Me

The original title of this post was suppose to be “Strategy on Running Runbooks in Azure Automation” and wanted to write it for more than a month. Why the title changed during this period? Simple – there was some limitation on running runbooks in Azure Automation and that limitation was significantly  increased which pushed me to change the title. Let me explain in detail what was the limitation, what has happened and what is that strategy I had that you might still need and it is always good to implement. Continue reading “Azure Automation is Faster Than Me”

Fix Non-Compliant Virtual Network Adapters in VMM with SMA Runbook

Many do not know but besides keeping the compliance of vSwitches on Hyper-V hosts VMM also keeps compliance of the Virtual Network Adapters on VMs. Continue reading “Fix Non-Compliant Virtual Network Adapters in VMM with SMA Runbook”

Deploying Gallery Item trough SPF

This blog post aims at exploring Service Provider Foundation. Charles Joy already covered how to deploy Gallery item trough WAP API and VMM PowerShell in series of blog posts. Although the SPF API for Gallery Items is similar I will show you how it is done there and what are the differences. Continue reading “Deploying Gallery Item trough SPF”