Programmatically Search Operations Management Suite

At Ignite Jo Chan showed us how we can now execute Search queries trough Operations Management Suite API which is basically Azure Resource Manager API. He demonstrated that with a tool called ARMClient. That tool seems nice but I wanted to get results with PowerShell as it is more familiar to me. Continue reading “Programmatically Search Operations Management Suite”

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”

Using VMM Cmdlets locally on SMA Worker Server in SMA Runbooks

If you are working with SMA and VMM you are probably familiar with the following sample Runbook for connecting to VMM: Continue reading “Using VMM Cmdlets locally on SMA Worker Server in SMA Runbooks”