A couple of month ago Microsoft released the latest (updated) version of PowerShell 5.0 . Why is this worth writing about? Well, with every new release there are some fantastic goodies included, you just need to discover them :). One of these goodies is (my) long awaited runbook editing capability for ISE. In this post […]
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Azure Automation – Twitter + IFTTT + Webhook = Start Runbook
I assume you know Twitter and you probably also know what a webhook is, right? No? Ok, a webhook is just a HTTP POST. In Azure Automation we are able to create a webhook for a runbook. This runbook will “consume” the webhook request (URL) + post data and start the runbook. The cool thing […]
PowerShell – PowerShellGet Module “Publish-PSArtifactUtility : Cannot process argument transformation on parameter ‘ElementValue’”
In PowerShell 5.0, Microsoft introduced the PowerShellGet module. This module contains cmdlets for different tasks. E.g. it lets you easily install / upload PowerShell modules / scripts from and to an online gallery such as PowerShellGallery.com. It even lets you find scripts, modules and DSC resources in such repositories. This is a fantastic way to […]
Quick Post – Get Cmdlet Related DLL
In some situation you are running a cmdlet, but you have no idea where it is stored. I mean you don’t know to which “*.dll” it belongs to or maybe you want to know some more details about the command. A very easy way to figure this out for the Get-AzureRmResource cmdlet… (Get-Command Get-AzureRmResource).DLL …as […]
Azure Automation – ISE Add-On Editing Runbooks
Well it has been a while since last post, because there is a lot going on in my private life as also in my job. But now some “tasks” are completed and I will have more time for community work again. Microsoft product machinery is running at high speed in all areas. One tool I […]
PowerShell – Remote Desktop Cmdlets “A Remote Desktop Services deployment does not exist…”
Recently while automating some cool stuff I needed to create a PowerShell workflow for deploying VDI clients using Windows Server 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Services. One of the first things I always do is checking the existing PowerShell support and I figured out there is a large number of cmdlets available for managing RDS services. […]
SCOM 2012 – What Workflows, MP’s And Objects Run On A SCOM Agent?
I am a huge fan of PowerShell and SCOM and when it comes to combining both forces you can unleash the full power and do almost anything :). In this case I got (also) asked, how you can figure out which management pack is actually used by SCOM agents and eventually display it in a […]
SCOM 2012 – Monitor SMA Runbook Instance (VSAE Sample MP)
When you are starting to automate processes in your company you soon will find out, that not all runbooks will run for a short time. There are also cases where you need a runbook, which is using a loop to monitor certain things or trigger other runbooks. In other words, there are cases where you […]
SCOM 2012 – NiCE Log File Library Creating Alert From Mail
Some time ago I blogged about the first release of NiCE Log File Library, you find the post here . I was very excited that NiCE released a free MP which provides lots of rules and monitors that can be configured in countless ways. It provide many capabilities to monitor any kind of log files […]
SCSM – Set Work Item State / Activity State via PowerShell
I do currently a lot of automation and today I had a need to change state of a service request. The service request itself was “Closed” and as you might know, you cannot change anything if the work item is set to “Closed”. Because I needed to trigger the runbook activities behind the service request […]