Author: Morten Lerudjordet

As I had a good go creating logic to handle modules on hybriod workers, I decided to also update some existing code the Automation team has had on their github for awhile. This code has become stale and does not work that good anymore. The team is also deprecating their github soon as it does…

This will be a quick one. As I was looking for a solution to add Azure VM to update management through Terraform I came up short. Therefore we opted to have Terraform do a web call to trigger a Runbook in Azure Automation. I went spelunking and found that the AA team had already done…

I did some work on updating the Update-AzureAHybridWorkerModules script I previously published here. It was a very basic script that only updated modules on hybrid workers that had been installed by using Install-Module. After thinking a bit, and becoming ever increasingly frustrated that we still do not have logic for automatically syncing modules installed in…

This time I wanted to show a more comprehensive example from a real life need and how I went about solving it. The challenge we faced was that we had previously set our Azure AD Connector to use the e-mail field in AD to be synced to Azure AD as the UPN. This would have…

For any automation tool, logging is pretty important. Though I would also say readability of the logs is something one should also think about when writing code. The general consensus in AA for logging is that one should use: Write-Error Write-Warning Write-Verbose Write-Output as the accepted ways of moving information to the different log types.…