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2. Introduction to Microsoft Azure Automation
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Introduction to Microsoft Azure Automation
Eamon O’Reilly & Beth Cooper
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3. Session Objectives And Takeaways
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Session Objectives And Takeaways
Session Objectives:
Understand the capabilities of Windows Azure Automation
Discuss use cases for Automation in Azure
Key Takeaways:
Understand key scenarios for Automation in Azure
Azure Automation allows integration between Azure services and external systems
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4. Process automation that simplifies cloud management
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Process automation that simplifies cloud management
Optimize and extend existing investments
Integration
Integrate into existing systems with PowerShell integration modules
Build additional PS modules to enable integrating into other systems
Deliver flexible and reliable services
Orchestration
Accelerate time to value with flexible process workflows
Improve service reliability across multiple tools, systems, and department silos
Lower costs and improve predictability
Automation
Enable service owners to focus on work that adds business value
Reduce error-prone manual activities while lowering costs
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5. Azure Automation Capabilities
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Azure Automation Capabilities
Azure
Monitoring
Systems
Change
Control
Anything 
Runbook Authoring in Azure:
Highly Available Engine:
Integration into other systems:
Create runbooks to automate all aspects of cloud operations, from deployment, monitoring, and optimizations
Support requirements for scale and H/A.
Import PS modules and create additional modules and runbooks for Azure services or to connect into 3rd party systems
Built on PowerShell Workflow. Isolation for runbook jobs
Automation
Backup SQL Azure on a schedule
Staged deployment of a service
Remediate alert on a service
Patch Azure VMs without downtime
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6. 4/24/2017
Demo
Beth Cooper
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Pricing
Job run time:
Based on how much time your runbook jobs execute in the system
Number of Runbooks
Total number of runbooks you have in the system
Integration Module Size
Total size of all modules you have imported into the system.
Azure module is there by default
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8. Automation Accounts & Dashboard
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Automation Accounts & Dashboard
Create Automation Accounts
Organize your automation by group or individual contributor
Accounts can live in different regions
Create up to 30 accounts
Use Automation Dashboard
Operational dashboard for analysis and troubleshooting
Quickly access “problem” jobs to get up and running quickly
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9. Runbook Authoring Author
Create PowerShell Workflow runbooks
Call existing runbooks in library
Manage and browse and insert assets in runbooks
Modules and Activities
Credentials (PowerShell Credentials and Certificates)
Variables (standard and encrypted)
Connections
Schedules
Test
Run runbook and see results within authoring window
Troubleshoot issues
Publish
Edit draft before publishing

10. Manage Runbooks & Jobs Dashboard View Runbooks View Jobs View
View runbook jobs over time
Find jobs that may need attention
Runbooks View
Filtering of jobs based on status and date
Identify authoring state (New, In edit, Published)
Filter by tags to group related runbooks
Jobs View
History of jobs per runbook
Who last updated and when
Input parameters and output
Drill into each job to view streams generated to help troubleshooting
Stop, Suspend and Resume job

11. Manage Automation Assets
Manage global assets
Add additional integration modules
Update to new versions of integration modules
Create / manage credentials
Create / manage connections
Create / manage variables
Manage Schedules

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Demo
Eamon O’Reilly
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13. Enable Automation Across Azure resources and external systems
Provisioning
Monitoring
Monitoring
Gmail Account
Manual Tasks
Patch Remediation
Cloud Service App On Azure
Monitor Gmail for new alert
Backup
Disaster Recovery
Collect logs
from App
Incidents Response
Visual Studio Online
Application Insights
monitors App
Send Alert
VM Lifecycle Mgmt.
Store logs in different Azure storage
Change Control
Release Mgmt.
Send notification to Hotmail account with logs location for investigation
Compliance
SLA Adherence

14. Built on PowerShell Workflow
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Built on PowerShell Workflow
PowerShell Workflow
Use Windows PowerShell syntax
Multi-device management
Running a single task to manage complex, end-to-end processes
Automated failure recovery
Connection and activity retries
Centralized store
Credentials / certificates
Global variable
Global connection for runbooks
Modules
Runbooks (draft / published versioning)
Scheduling
Highly Available
Runbook servers to process jobs
Odata Web service to submit / retrieve status
SQL Server clustering / always on
Historical Analysis
Historical view of runbook jobs
Reporting through Excel PowerPivot for ROI
View runbook used for all jobs
PowerShell Workflow
Centralized store
Microsoft Azure Automation
Highly Available
Historical Analysis
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15. 4/24/2017
Demo
Beth Cooper
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16. Enable Automation Across Azure resources and external systems
Provisioning
Monitoring
Applying Policy
SharePoint
Release
Management
Manual Tasks
Update SharePoint with progress
Patch Remediation
Backup
Deploy to production
Disaster Recovery
Monitor SharePoint
for new deployment
in staging
Incidents Response
Apply policy to the
deployment in staging
VM Lifecycle Mgmt.
Change Control
Update SharePoint with progress
Release Mgmt.
Compliance
SLA Adherence

17. Typical Azure Automation Scenarios
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Typical Azure Automation Scenarios
Patch Azure IaaS VMs without downtime, leveraging Traffic manager.
Enable regeneration of storage account keys while avoiding downtime in the application.
SQL Backup on a schedule.
Backup and restore IaaS VMs.
Patch / Update / Backup Orchestration
Deploy a VM on an Azure / On-Premise cloud and enable monitoring for the VM.
Deploy a new service to Azure and configure the end points for CPU and Memory alerts.
Deploy application from Git, run validation tests, and swap to production if tests pass.
Monitor SharePoint online for an approval to update a service and update the service once approved.
Change Control & Provisioning
Alert on a VM then turn on tracing, collect logs, upload to Azure Storage and make available in Visual Studio for troubleshooting.
Monitor for when a new service gets created, and configure it for the right tracing / backup policy.
Notify users of a subscription who have underutilized VMs and perform remediation.
Monitoring & Remediation
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18. If you think you will do a task twice – automate it!
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If you think you will do a task twice – automate it!
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19. In Review Azure Automation enables:
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In Review
Azure Automation enables:
Integration into Azure services and external systems
Implement your tasks using PowerShell workflow
Automate everything!!!!
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