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. So, if you have access to a bunch of directories that in turn hold a […]
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2 ways to retrieve content of Azure Automation Runbook within another runbook
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 of them could be to create a package that holds all the data from automation […]
[PowerShell Tip] – Assign array elements to separate variables in single line of code
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, we just need to declare the variables separated by a comma and at the end, […]
[PowerShell Tip] – Prevent cmdlet from printing anything to output
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 -SubscriptionId “SubId” | Out-Null Assigning the output of the cmdlet to $null e.g. $null = […]
Analyzing PowerShell scripts with PSScriptAnalyzer
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, modules, functions and gives a detailed report on any rule/rules that the scripts or modules […]
[Powershell-Basics] – Looping through hash table
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” = “Amogh” $SampleTable.”City” = “Hyderabad” $SampleTable.”Country” = “India” For looping through the hashtable, we can use […]
Save with Encoding in Visual Studio
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 line endings as (LF) while Windows’ line endings usually follow (CR)(LF) convention. So to save a […]
Shell script with 10+ parameters? Remember this….
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 10 or more parameters, you need to remember one thing that you can’t access the […]
Get output of script executed as part of Set-AzureRmVMCustomScriptExecution cmdlet
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 the virtual machine. Now in order to retrieve the output if any, of the script […]
Get-AutomationVariable Vs Get-AzureRmAutomationVariable
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 the two cmdlets. First, Get-AzureRmAutomationVariable As you can see, when we just run this cmdlet […]