Author Archives: amoghnatu

Global Subscription and Directory Filter in Azure Portal

Posted on 31st May 2018 by amoghnatu

Azure portal allows us to apply global subscription and directory filter that gets applied to your entire portal session. This will cause that directory and/or subscription to persist throughout the Azure portal session displaying only the resources from the selected subscription/Directory. … Continue reading →

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2 ways to retrieve content of Azure Automation Runbook within another runbook

Posted on 13th May 2018 by amoghnatu

In this post, we’ll see how we can retrieve content of azure automation runbook from within another runbook. This content is loaded in memory. There could be multiple reasons why we would want to retrieve content of azure automation runbook. One … Continue reading →

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[PowerShell Tip] – Assign array elements to separate variables in single line of code

Posted on 10th May 2018 by amoghnatu

Hi, In this post, we’ll see how we can assign array elements to separate variables in a single line of code Consider a sample array $TestArray = @(“FirstElement”, “SecondElement”) Now, to get the value of the elements into separate variables, … Continue reading →

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[PowerShell Tip] – Prevent cmdlet from printing anything to output

Posted on 9th May 2018 by amoghnatu

Hi, In this short post, we’ll see how we can prevent a PowerShell cmdlet from printing anything to the std output stream. There are two ways you can do this. Piping the output of the cmdlet to Out-Null e.g. Set-AzureRmContext … Continue reading →

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Analyzing PowerShell scripts with PSScriptAnalyzer

Posted on 28th April 2018 by amoghnatu

Hi, This post will show you how you can use PSScriptAnalyzer to analyze whether your PowerShell scripts or functions confirm with industry best practices or not. PSScriptAnalyzer (PSSA going forward) is a static code analyzer that checks your PowerShell scripts, … Continue reading →

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[Powershell-Basics] – Looping through hash table

Posted on 26th April 2018 by amoghnatu

Hi, This post will show how to loop through a hash table in PowerShell. Let’s say for example we have a hashTable object in PowerShell as shown below: $SampleTable = @{} # Syntax for creating hashtable –> @{} $SampleTable.”Name” = … Continue reading →

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Save with Encoding in Visual Studio

Posted on 21st April 2018 by amoghnatu

Hi, This post shows how you can save files while retaining their encoding and line endings format. For example, if you’re writing a shell script that will be run on a UNIX operating system, the script is supposed to have … Continue reading →

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Shell script with 10+ parameters? Remember this….

Posted on 20th April 2018 by amoghnatu

Hi, This post is mainly aimed towards shell script newbies like myself and the goal is that they don’t end up wasting time on this as I had to. So, if you are creating a new shell script that requires … Continue reading →

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Get output of script executed as part of Set-AzureRmVMCustomScriptExecution cmdlet

Posted on 15th April 2018 by amoghnatu

Hi, This post explains how to retrieve the output of the script that is executed as part of Set-AzureRmVMCustomScriptExecution cmdlet. The cmdlet adds a custom script virtual machine extension to a virtual machine. It lets users run custom scripts on … Continue reading →

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Get-AutomationVariable Vs Get-AzureRmAutomationVariable

Posted on 3rd April 2018 by amoghnatu

Hi, I finally started working on PowerShell and so thought that documenting my learnings here would be useful. So in this post, we will see the difference between the 2 cmdlets Get-AzureRmAutomationVariable and Get-AutomationVariable. So let’s see the outputs of … Continue reading →

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