Microsoft Azure Essentials Azure Automation

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Table of Contents
Introduction
	Who should read this ebook
		Assumptions
	Organization of this ebook
	Conventions and features in this ebook
	Acknowledgments
	Errata, updates, & support
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Azure Automation
	Why automation?
		Repeatable deployment
		Consistent testing configurations
	Why Azure Automation?
		Windows PowerShell workflow
		End-to-end automation service
		Off-premises redundancy backed storage
		Runbook authoring and importing
		Scenarios
	Azure Automation pricing
	Enabling Azure Automation
	Creating an Azure Automation account
Chapter 2 Runbook management
	What is a runbook?
		Runbooks support in the Azure Management Portal
	Import a runbook
		Import a runbook from the Script Center
		Import or export a runbook via the Azure Management Portal
	Create a runbook
		Create a runbook using Quick Create
		Create a runbook from the Gallery
	Author a runbook
		Runbook parameters
		Runbook checkpoints
	Resume or suspend a runbook
Chapter 3 Assets
	Management certificates
	Azure Active Directory and automation
	Azure Automation assets
		Asset scope
		Variable assets
		Using a variable asset
		Integration module assets
		Connection assets
	Using the Connect-Azure runbook
	Using Azure Active Directory without the Connect-Azure runbook
	Schedule assets
Chapter 4 Runbook deployment
	Publishing a runbook
	Invoking a runbook
		Invoke from code within another runbook
		Invoke a runbook manually from the Azure Management Portal
		Invoke a runbook using a schedule asset
	Troubleshooting a runbook
		Use the Dashboard
		Enable logging
	Backing up a runbook
Chapter 5 Azure Script Center, library, and community
	Windows PowerShell workflows and runbooks
	Azure workflow execution
	Resources
Chapter 6 Best practices in using Azure Automation
	Runbooks
	Concurrent editing of runbooks
		Azure Automation accounts
	Checkpoints
	Assets
		Importing integration modules
		Credentials and connections
		Schedules
	Authoring runbooks
Chapter 7 Scenarios
	Scenario: Provisioning of IaaS resources
	Provisioning resources
	Authentication processing
	Using the New-AzureEnvironmentResourcesFromGallery runbook
	Creating assets for the runbook
	Defining parameters and variables
	Configuring authentication
	Processing details
	Scenario: Maintaining and updating Azure IaaS resources
		Summary of upgrade process
		Using the Update-AzureVM runbook
		Supporting runbooks
		Some final thoughts
	About the Author
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