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Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve taken our simple Azure VM creation script and expanded its versatility to support standardization in an automated fashion.  Now  we’re going to add some finishing touches to make this a function that includes some scalability and added functionality before we turn our eyes towards the DSC portion of our role-based deployments. …

Continue reading “PowerShell – Automating Server Builds In Azure – Pt. 3 – Finish And Function”

During this scripting session, I’ll be working on a system that is running PowerShell 5.0 (February 2015 release). So now that I’ve put together a basic script for building out a server in Azure, I want to do even more by making the script and my environment more versatile.  So we’re going to go ahead and …

Continue reading “PowerShell – Automating Server Builds In Azure – Pt. 2 – Rolling Servers To Their Silos”

During this scripting session, I am working on a system that is running PowerShell 5.0 (February 2015 release). I started with a very simple goal towards learning Azure and Desired State Configuration: to be able to rapidly deploy a series of machines required for giving demonstrations at user group meetings and internal company discussions.  In …

Continue reading “PowerShell – Automating Server Builds In Azure – Pt. 1 – Basic Builds”

Recently, while working on my scripts for rolling out server deployments in Azure, I came across an interesting issue with a cmdlet throwing a terminating error when I wasn’t expecting one. I was attempting to use the Get-AzureService cmdlet to verify if the cloud service that I specified already existed or not.  It was necessary …

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