Navigate your Visual Studio Team Services projects like a file system

I’ve been using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) for almost all my development projects. VSTS is a cloud service for collaborating on code development. It provides an integrated set of features ...

Nov 27, 2017 DevOps, Scripting, PowerShell, VSTS, Development

Azure Scheduler - Schedule your Runbooks more often than every hour

Have you ever wanted to schedule your Azure Automation Runbook every 15 minutes? Scenario Suppose you have a Runbook that you want to run more often than every hour, say every 15 minutes. This is...

Oct 26, 2017 Azure, Automation, Schedule

Testing Azure Resource Manager template functions

In Azure Resource Manager (ARM) you can use template functions to help deploy resources in Azure. I often find it difficult to develop ARM Templates with template functions without the option to d...

Aug 2, 2017 Azure, PowerShell

Azure Logic Apps - Schedule your Runbooks more often than every hour

In my last blog post I explained how you could use Azure Scheduler to have your Runbooks run more than every hour. But I learned from Tao Yang via Twitter that you could also use Azure Logic Apps ...

Jun 24, 2017 Azure, Automation, Runbook, Logic App, PowerShell

PowerShell Azure Functions lessons learned

Lately I’m playing with PowerShell Azure Functions and I learned there are some things I needed to learn and that’s why I want to share some more info about this topic. What are Azure Functions? Az...

Jan 29, 2017 Azure, Functions, PowerShell

Using the Azure ARM REST API – End to end Example Part 2

This blog post is a continuation of the third blog post in this Azure (ARM) REST API series. Please review the following blog posts first if you have not done yet: Using the Azure ARM REST API – G...

Nov 20, 2016 ARM, Automation, Azure, PowerShell

Using the Azure ARM REST API – End to end Example Part 1

In the first two blog post about using the Azure (ARM) REST API I explained how to get the Access Token and how to get some simple info about your Azure Subscription. In the last two blog posts ab...

Nov 4, 2016 ARM, Automation, Azure, REST API

Using the Azure ARM REST API – Get Subscription Information

In the fist blog post over using the Azure ARM REST API I explained how to retrieve the Access Token needed for the further authentication against the Azure ARM REST API. In this blog post I’m goi...

Oct 29, 2016 ARM, Azure, Linux, open source, PowerShell, Scripts

Using the Azure ARM REST API – Get Access Token

This week I’ve been busy with trying to figure out how you can ‘directly’ talk to the Azure ARM REST API instead of using PowerShell or the Azure CLI. Because I could not find a lot of information ...

Oct 21, 2016 Azure, PowerShell