Azure Automation: Refactor module update logic
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…
Azure Automation: Update Management Runbook
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…
Azure Automation: update them modules redux
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…
Azure Automation runbook logging redux
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…
Azure Automation runbook logging
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.…
Azure AD Connect: Export filter OU list
Just a quick one to remind myself as I’m taking in some coffee. If you need to get the set OU filters for the Azure AD Connector, this little Powershell snippet might help:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | # Get-ADSyncConnector gets all connector and just find the name of the one you want to use $ExcludeFilterFileName = "c:\temp\ExcludeFilter.txt" $IncludeFilterFileName = "c:\temp\IncludeFilter.txt" $ADConnectorName = "AD Connector Name" $ADConnector = Get-ADSyncConnector -Name $ADConnectorName # Assumes that only one partition exist on the connector $ADConPartition = Get-ADSyncConnectorPartition -Connector $ADConnector[0] -Identifier $ADConnector.Partitions.Identifier.Guid $ADConPartition.ConnectorPartitionScope.ContainerInclusionList | Out-File -FilePath $IncludeFilterFileName $ADConPartition.ConnectorPartitionScope.ContainerExclusionList | Out-File -FilePath $ExcludeFilterFileName |
Does not seem a way to import as of yet though 🙁 Will update if I find a workaround for this.…
Azure Automation: update them modules
Update: Go here to read about the new hybrid worker logic to keep modules updated and in sync with AA. I have been working a lot with Azure Automation lately. It’s a great product, helping organize the use of Powershell making an awesome language even better. With AA as any other of the Azure services…
SCOM Performance Dashboard Widget Woes
SCOM is a great product, but sometimes I would have liked that they spent a bit more time on implementing the silverlight dashboards, especially the performance one. The reason? The usage of the hardcoded GUIDs to populate the performance counters. Let’s back up a bit, before going on, and talk a bit about the usage…
SMS / Voice Notifications: PowerShell, System Center Operations Manager Updated
I really like this script for sending SMS using SCOM. Though it has some bugs in it’s current form. I also do not have a Twilio account. That is why I decided to rewrite some of the logic to use generic HTTP SMS gateways. Currently it is set up for using pswincom sms gateway, though…
OpsMgr: Sample Blue Bar State Widget Template Sorted
I really like this Wei Out there template, and also this that gives a overview of the Send Queue Size of the SCOM agent. Though I’m lazy and do not like that I have to click the performance counter column so it will sort by it. That is why I have added some code so…