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Using PowerShell, Azure Automation, and OMS – Part III

It’s been a long road, but we’re almost there! A couple of weeks ago we looked at how we can create an Azure Automation Account and add our own custom modules to the solution to be used in Azure Automation. Last week, we took a deeper dive into configuring a runbook to take in webhook data from an alert using Microsoft’s Operations Management Suite. Then we looked into the data itself to see how we can leverage it against our runbook to fix problems for us on the fly.

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PowerShell for Admins
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Using PowerShell, Azure Automation, and OMS – Part II

So last time we learned how to upload our custom modules into Azure Automation so we can start using them in Azure Automation Runbooks. This week we’re going to take a look at configuring a runbook to see what kind of data we can ingest from OMS Webhook data, and how we can leverage that data to pass into our functions. Creating the Runbook Script So first off, let’s talk about basic runbooks and running them against objects in Azure.

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PowerShell for Admins
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Using PowerShell, Azure Automation, and OMS – Part I

Microsoft’s Operations Management Suite provides some exceptional tools for monitoring and maintaining your environments in both the cloud and in your datacenter. One of it’s best features, however, is its ability to leverage the tools that you’ve already developed to perform tasks and remediate issues using PowerShell, Azure Automation Runbooks, and OMS Alert triggers. In this series, we’ll be discussing how you can configure these tools to take care of problems in your own environment.

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PowerShell for Admins
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Help Get the Word Out on the 'GetGoing' Program & Scholarship

A couple of weeks ago, DevOps Collective (PowerShell.org’s parent non-profit organization) announced the availability of the ‘GetGoing’ IT Ops Education Program and Scholarship. For those of you who may not have yet heard, DevOps Collective and Pluralsight have partnered together to create a modern ’turnkey’ curriculum that brings together mapped courses, recommended hands-on experiences, and live mentoring to prepare people for the real-world of IT Operations. With this initiative, they’ve offered up to full-ride scholarships for 2016.

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DevOps News
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Desired State Configuration – Beware Of Circular Configurations

Lately, I’ve been working at converting a lot of my server configuration scripts into DSC configurations. After all, what better way to learn than by updating your existing methods? I recently ran into an issue, however, while converting my SCCM Distribution Point deployment script into a config, where the test systems inexplicably began rebooting every thirty minutes or so. The Local Configuration Manager was configured to reboot if necessary, and these were fresh installs, so I knew that my culprit was most likely in my configuration.

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PowerShell for Admins
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PowerShellTO's Next Meeting – May 6th, 2015

Join us on Wednesday, May 6th for our second Toronto PowerShell User’s Group meeting.  This time you get to take the wheel!  Send us some of your PowerShell related challenges and we’ll pick the top ones to work out in a group together!  We’ll also be talking about some of the things learned at PowerShell Summit – North America, and more!

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PowerShell Summit – North America Launches!

The PowerShell community descended on Charlotte, North Carolina for the third annual PowerShell Summit - North America this week! Enthusiasts, MVPs, community leaders, and the PowerShell product team came to discuss the latest and greatest ongoings in the PowerShell world. The festivities kicked off in downtown Charlotte at the Ri Ra Irish Pub this last Sunday. New network connections were made and old friends reunited over fine brews in the Victorian-style public house before getting a good nights’ rest before the three day summit.

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