I wanted to play with the OMS cmdlets which are part of the AzureRM modules. The OMS / OperationsInsights module itself is called AzureRM.OperationsalInsights. A good place to start with OMS native PowerShell cmdlets is a blog post on the Building Clouds blog. So what is the exact issue? Well, I tried to query my […]
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SMA Authoring Toolkit – Some Runbooks Are Not Showing Up
When you are creating runbooks in SMA (Service Management Automation) and you are using the SMA Authoring Toolkit available on PowerShell Gallery, you might have also have faced a very annoying bug. If you have a certain amount of runbooks in SMA and you are browsing through the runbook list in ISE you simply cannot […]
Quick Post – Linux + PowerShell + DSC Blog Posts @ Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog
I would like to make you aware of a 3-part blog post series, which I have written for THE Microsoft Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog . Because I really like these blog post series and of course the blog itself a lot , I want to share it with you. The first part shows you, how […]
OMS – HTTP Data Collector API 403 (Forbidden)
Few weeks ago Microsoft released the Azure Log Analytics HTTP Data Collector API, which allows you to shoot JSON data into OMS Log Analytics. This is awesome news, because now anything is possible. This means, you are able to use (m)any script languages to send any data to OMS for further analytics and you are […]
Quick Post – PowerShell Blog HellShell.com
This blog has been up and running for a couple of years now. I mainly blog about System Center and OMS. During my daily work, I am using PowerShell a lot and sometimes I am able to figure out some cool stuff or would like to share some challenges I faced. In my opinion is […]
SCOM – Save a Connection String for Use in a PowerShell Script
Sometimes it is necessary to store certain information in a (secure) way, like a connection string, which you might want to use in your PowerShell scripts. The scripts could be then used e.g for the Command Notification Channel. Let’s assume you need to connect to a foreign system and this system provides you with a […]
SMA – Invoke Runbook Error “Cannot find the ‘’command.”
This is just a quick post about SMA. I bumped many times in this error while writing PowerShell workflows in SMA … …and I figured out that there are many reasons for this error. If you are nesting runbooks like this… Several reasons could lead to this problem: The child workflow does not exist in […]
Azure Automation – Twitter + IFTTT + Webhook = Start Runbook
I assume you know Twitter and you probably also know what a webhook is, right? No? Ok, a webhook is just a HTTP POST. In Azure Automation we are able to create a webhook for a runbook. This runbook will “consume” the webhook request (URL) + post data and start the runbook. The cool thing […]
PowerShell – PowerShellGet Module “Publish-PSArtifactUtility : Cannot process argument transformation on parameter ‘ElementValue’”
In PowerShell 5.0, Microsoft introduced the PowerShellGet module. This module contains cmdlets for different tasks. E.g. it lets you easily install / upload PowerShell modules / scripts from and to an online gallery such as PowerShellGallery.com. It even lets you find scripts, modules and DSC resources in such repositories. This is a fantastic way to […]
Quick Post – Get Cmdlet Related DLL
In some situation you are running a cmdlet, but you have no idea where it is stored. I mean you don’t know to which “*.dll” it belongs to or maybe you want to know some more details about the command. A very easy way to figure this out for the Get-AzureRmResource cmdlet… (Get-Command Get-AzureRmResource).DLL …as […]