Azure Automation

Official Documentation

Service Description

Automation greatly facilitates the management of Azure resources by enabling the automation of tasks such as the creation of resources, their deployment, monitoring, and administration as part of a workflow-based engine. Associated resources (e.g., a cloud service with associated storage account and Active Directory setup) can be created and managed using what are referred to as "runbooks." The individual resources then no longer have to be created individually and separately.

Getting Started

Azure Automation Learning Path
9/27/2016, Webpage
Automating the Cloud with Azure Automation
8/14/2014, Mva
Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Automation
3/11/2016, Ebook
Automating Operational and Management Tasks Using Azure Automation
5/4/2015, Video, 1:33:34

Latest Content

Date	Title
9/21/2017	9/21/2017 Pausing Azure SQL Data Warehouse using an Automation Runbook When the an Azure SQL Data Warehouse is paused, all running queries are canceled. If there are queries running that have data movement, rollback operations will likely happen. These rollbacks can...
9/14/2017	9/14/2017 Let your customers know of important status changes in your WinForms app This post describes an approach to having the Narrator screen reader announce important status changes occurring in a WinForms app. An introduction to the UI Automation (UIA) API mentioned below,...
9/14/2017	9/14/2017 Azure SQL Database scheduled auto-scaling TechNet Gallery Vertically scale an Azure SQL Database up or down according to a schedule using Azure Automation.
9/12/2017	9/12/2017 Mail Flow Round Trip test using Azure Automation and Azure Log Analytics Every once in a while a customer asks if we can create a mail flow between different email systems and measure its roundtrip time. So, this reference highlights one solution based on a PowerShell...
9/5/2017	9/5/2017 Monitoring temperature sensors in remote locations with Twilio, Azure Automation and Log Analytics – Part 3 This is part three of my little three part series on how to monitor temperature sensors in remote locations with Twilio, Azure Automation and OMS. It describes my current OMS solution and the...
9/5/2017	9/5/2017 Monitoring temperature sensors in remote locations with Twilio, Azure Automation and Log Analytics – Part 2 This is part two of my little three part series on how to monitor sensors in remote locations with Twilio, Azure Automation and OMS. It describes the overall solution architecture, some technical...
9/5/2017	9/5/2017 Monitoring temperature sensors in remote locations with Twilio, Azure Automation and Log Analytics – Part 1 This blog series is based on a private project and not customer related. But it might show you how easy it is to solve real world problems with Azure services. As a short teaser, this is my...
9/1/2017	9/1/2017 Automating Azure Analysis Service Processing using Azure Automation Account Analysis Services has been progressing day-by-day with new exciting features and there is an ask from the users to automate the Azure Analysis Services Processing. There are few ways which we...
8/31/2017	8/31/2017 Automation of Azure Analysis Services with Service Principals and PowerShell Microsoft Azure Blog Azure Analysis Services presents considerable opportunities for automation of administrative tasks including server provisioning, scale up/down, pause/resume, model management, data refresh,...
8/29/2017	8/29/2017 Utilizing Key Vault to create credentials for automation. Working with PowerShell I often find myself doing demos which require me to have some form of credentials or other sensitive data. In the past I've used really generic passwords which are easy...
8/25/2017	8/25/2017 AzureStack Automation: Register ADFS ASDK for Azure Marketplace Syndication TechNet Gallery .Synopsis ASDK Single Node only! - Automate ADFS AzureStack to Azure Market Place Syndication .DESCRIPTION ASDK Single Node only! - Register Azure Stack with Azure for Market Place...
8/22/2017	8/22/2017 Using Azure Automation, OMS and Storage Tables to capture Configuration Data of Azure VMs Part One. Many customers have legacy configuration management database (CMDB) systems that they'd like to update with Azure Virtual Machine configuration data like hostname, IP address, subscription, etc....

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Azure Documentation

1. Overview
     1.1. What is Azure Automation?
2. Get started
     2.1. Get started with Azure Automation
     2.2. Runbook tutorial
          2.2.1. Create graphical runbook
          2.2.2. Create PowerShell runbook
          2.2.3. My first Python runbook
          2.2.4. Create PowerShell Workflow runbook
3. How to
     3.1. Authentication and security
          3.1.1. Create standalone Automation account
          3.1.2. Create Azure AD User account
          3.1.3. Configure Authentication with AWS
          3.1.4. Create Automation Run As account
          3.1.5. Validate Automation account config
          3.1.6. Manage role-based access control
          3.1.7. Manage Automation account
     3.2. Create runbooks
          3.2.1. Runbook types
          3.2.2. Create and import runbooks
          3.2.3. Edit textual runbooks
          3.2.4. Edit graphical runbooks
          3.2.5. Test a runbook
          3.2.6. Learning PowerShell Workflow
          3.2.7. Child runbooks
          3.2.8. Runbook output
          3.2.9. Source control integration
     3.3. Automate
          3.3.1. Start a runbook
          3.3.2. Start a runbook from a webhook
          3.3.3. Configure runbook input parameters
          3.3.4. Error handling in graphical runbooks
          3.3.5. Track a runbook job
          3.3.6. Change runbook settings
          3.3.7. Manage Azure Automation data
          3.3.8. Call Azure Automation Runbook from Log Analytics alert
          3.3.9. Pass a JSON object to an Azure Automation runbook
     3.4. Hybrid Runbook Worker
          3.4.1. Deploy Hybrid Runbook Worker
          3.4.2. Azure Automation Windows Hybrid Runbook Worker
          3.4.3. Azure Automation Linux Hybrid Runbook Worker
          3.4.4. Run runbooks on worker
          3.4.5. Remove Azure Automation Hybrid Runbook Workers
     3.5. Deploy configuration management (DSC)
          3.5.1. Desired State Configuration (DSC) overview
          3.5.2. Getting started
          3.5.3. Onboarding machines for management
          3.5.4. Compiling DSC configurations
          3.5.5. Continuous deployment using Chocolatey
          3.5.6. Forward Azure Automation DSC reporting data to OMS Log Analytics
     3.6. Manage assets
          3.6.1. Certificates
          3.6.2. Connections
          3.6.3. Credentials
          3.6.4. Integration Modules
          3.6.5. Schedules
          3.6.6. Variables
          3.6.7. Update Azure PowerShell modules
     3.7. Scenarios
          3.7.1. Runbook gallery
          3.7.2. Create Amazon Web Service VM
          3.7.3. Remediate Azure VM alert
          3.7.4. Start/stop VM with JSON Tags
          3.7.5. Remove Resource Group
          3.7.6. Source control integration with GitHub Enterprise
          3.7.7. Source control integration with VSTS
          3.7.8. Call Azure Automation Runbook from Log Analytics alert
          3.7.9. Deploy an Azure Resource Manager template in an Azure Automation PowerShell runbook
     3.8. Solutions
          3.8.1. Change Tracking
          3.8.2. Update Management
          3.8.3. Start/stop VMs during off-hours
     3.9. Monitor
          3.9.1. Forward Azure Automation job data to Log Analytics
          3.9.2. Unlink Azure Automation account from Log Analytics
     3.10. Migrate
          3.10.1. Migrate from Orchestrator
          3.10.2. Move Automation Account
     3.11. Troubleshoot
          3.11.1. Troubleshoot common errors
          3.11.2. Troubleshoot Hybrid Runbook Worker
4. Reference
     4.1. PowerShell
     4.2. PowerShell (Classic)
     4.3. .NET
     4.4. REST
     4.5. REST (Classic)
5. Resources
     5.1. Automation introduction video
     5.2. Azure Automation training
     5.3. Azure Roadmap
     5.4. Learning path
     5.5. MSDN forum
     5.6. Pricing
     5.7. Pricing calculator
     5.8. Release notes
     5.9. Service updates
     5.10. Stack Overflow
     5.11. Videos

Web Content

Content	Type
Azure Automation Learning Path	Webpage
Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Automation	Ebook

Online Training Content

Date	Title
8/14/2014	Automating the Cloud with Azure Automation Check out this course to explore the process of automating the cloud with Azure Automation. Find out how to get started and how to connect to Microsoft Azure. Learn how to import and publish a Connect-Azure runbook, and create and publish your first runbook. Finally, invoke Azure Automation runbooks
8/13/2014	Automating the Cloud with Azure Automation Free, on-demand MVA course to explore automating the cloud with Azure Automation, including runbooks and next steps.

Tools

Tool	Description	Author
Download Billing Data	This Automation Runbook runbook gets the invoices from all the specified accounts. Required parameters AutomationAccountName: name of the automation account we are using AutomationResourceGroup: name of the resource group that contains the automation

Videos

Date	Title	Length	Source
5/10/2017	Microsoft Build 2017 \| Azure Customers Hear from Azure customers and how they use the different tools Azure provides to create business solutions. You will learn from customers across different industries such as ASOS, British Airways, Rockwell Automation, and GEICO.	0:01:54	YT: Microsoft Azure
2/16/2017	Enterprise Automation - Unplugged How do you go from manual tasks to automation? How do you move the processes from manual to automated? How do you implement an automation solution and decide what to automate first? Do you need a self-service portal? Orchestrator, SMA,...	1:05:58	Ignite Australia 2017
2/10/2017	Automating your Office 365 Administration with PowerShell and Azure Automation There are many day-to-day tasks that can be simplified by using PowerShell. Combine this with the amazing capabilities of Azure Automation and you have a recipe to eliminate many of the tasks necessary for the administration of Office...	1:03:00	Ignite Australia 2017
11/16/2016	Improving App Quality with UI Automation Adding UI Automation for testing will speed up your development cycle and improve product quality. In this session, we'll demo how to use Appium test framework support for Windows applications, how to use Visual Studio to run Appium...	0:28:23	Connect 2016
7/12/2016	Integration and Automation using the Azure Data Catalog REST API Azure Data Catalog provides capabilities for data source discovery and understanding, enabling data producers and data consumers get more value from data sources by making them easier to discover and understand. Data Catalog is also a...	0:59:02	Ch9: C+E
5/4/2015	Heterogeneous Configuration Management Using Microsoft Azure Automation Azure Automation is currently used to provision, maintain, and monitor your cloud-based infrastructure. This session will show how a new feature of Azure Automation extends those capabilities, to increase robustness and simplicity with...	0:00:00	Ignite 2015
5/4/2015	Automating Operational and Management Tasks Using Azure Automation With Azure Automation, customers have a powerful new tool to manage their Microsoft Azure resources and external systems. In this session, we cover core Azure Automation functionality and recently released features. We will talk about...	1:33:34	Ignite 2015
11/26/2014	Learn the Ins and Outs of Azure Automation, PowerShell and Desired State Configuration When transitioning your skillset from on-premises to a more hybrid cloud environment, you have to also transition your management techniques from GUI and One-Off solutions to a more reproducible Automated environment. Learn the ins...	0:55:20	IaaS for IT Pros
10/22/2014	Being Efficient with Azure Automation Individual humans do not scale very well. Let's face it, we can barely multitask. So with Cloud Computing how do we keep up with the growing demand for maintenance tasks for these "infinitely scalable" assets? The answer is...	0:50:10	AzureConf 14
6/12/2013	Things, M2M, IoT - Zweckgebundene Geräte in und durch die Cloud verbinden [Deutsch] "Internet of Things" ist dieser Tage eines der vieldiskutierten Schlagworte in der Softwareindustrie. Bei "IoT" oder auch Maschine-zu-Maschine Kommunikation (M2M) dreht es sich allgemein um die direkte und indirekte Verbindung von...	1:05:25	Subscribe!

StackOverflow

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