In the third part of his series, Nicolas Prigent describes how to run post-deployment configuration and automation tasks on Azure Virtual Machines. Nicolas explains how to use Azure VM Extensions using the Azure PowerShell module to save time during the provisioning process.  Read more...

In the second part of his series, Nicolas Prigent describes in detail how to automate the login process using PowerShell and Azure CLI. Nicolas also explains how to retrieve information about your Azure subscription.  Read more...

In this article, Robert Cain describes the steps to set up a VM using PowerShell using his PSAzure module.  Read more...

Azure virtual machines are created for many reasons, even just to have an environment to quickly test something out. In this article, Robert Cain demonstrates the first few steps in automating the process with PowerShell. He shows how to gather information needed and set up a resource group, storage and networking needed for the VM.  Read more...

Need to inspect your Data Lake objects and files? Want to automate the process? Find out how with PowerShell.  Read more...

Learn how PowerShell can be used to manage files and folders in your Data Lake.  Read more...

We will teach how to create a new SQL Azure Data Warehouse using Powershell  Read more...

The whole point of using a cloud service is to be able to use it intensively for a brief period just when it is needed and then clear out all your work when you've finished. This means automation to make the process as quick and easy as possible. It is likely to mean creating a VM, provisioning it from scratch and spinning it up using PowerShell. Relax, grab the popcorn, and let Adam Bertram show you how he does it in Azure.  Read more...

In this article, Tim Smith goes through a couple of options to automate heartbeat checks against Azure databases. This is useful if you're moved SQL Server databases to Azure and you want to have periodic checks to make sure the databases are responsive.  Read more...

In this tip we will look at two different ways of creating an HDInsight Cluster: Creating an HDInsight Cluster through Azure Management Portal, and creating an HDInsight Cluster through Windows Azure PowerShell.  Read more...

Marcin Policht provides a comprehensive overview of Windows PowerShell’s capabilities in regard to managing SQL Databases (or, in general, cloud-resident resources).  Read more...

This is a very simple script can be used as a framework for you to stop and start your VM’s on Azure with Powershell.  Read more...

Or, I guess it might be more appropriate to say that Powershell does Azure. Regardless, there are a set of...  Read more...