Azure Automation

Because of the recent domain change of my blog, I decided to completely start over again with my lab in Azure. I’ve been working with Desired State Configuration Configs in Azure for quite a few years, but never used them for my own lab environment. It felt a bit overkill to do that, but now I wanted to start over and do everything right. This step-by-step installation guide explains how to create a DSC Configuration in Azure Automation and how to apply this on your domain controller in Azure. ...

Today I was working on an Azure project where the deployment of Azure resources needed to be automated. Problem You’ll see the following error message: ERROR: New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment : 7:27:39 AM - Resource Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/extensions 'test01/dscExtension' failed with message '{ "status": "Failed", "error": { "code": "ResourceDeploymentFailure", "message": "The resource operation completed with terminal provisioning state 'Failed'.", "details": [ { "code": "VMExtensionProvisioningError", `“message”: “VM has reported a failure when processing extension ‘dscExtension’. Error message: "The DSC``Extension failed to execute: Cannot process argument transformation on parameter ‘ConfigurationFunction’. ...