Azure PowerShell Tutorial

Azure PowerShell allows for task automation and operational management of Azure resources at no cost or effort using popular PowerShell scripting language.
In this episode I give you introduction to what Azure PowerShell is and how can it solve your day to day development and operational challenges.
In a short demo I will show you
- What is PowerShell is and how it works?
- What is Azure PowerShell?
- How to install PowerShell modules for Azure?
- How to run simple commands
- Listing and querying resources
- Using pipes for advanced scenarios
- Demo on creating VMs and resource groups
- Different tools for PowerShell development
- Using PowerShell in CloudShell
Next steps for you after watching the video
1. Azure PowerShell documentation
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powe...
2. Azure PowerShell samples
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azur...
3. Automate and schedule scripts in Azure using Automation service
- • Azure Automation Tutor...
Want to connect?
- Blog marczak.io/
- Twitter / marczakio
- Facebook / marczakio
- LinkedIn / adam-marczak
- Site azure4everyone.com

[@AdamMarczakYT]

And a small mistake appeared in the video. PowerShell ISE of'course means Integrated Scripting Environment not Integrated Shell Environment! ;) Big thanks to our viewer Paweł for letting me know!

[@mcdelive]

You have a gift to teach. Not many people (with the knowledge) can teach as clearly as you. Could you please do a Video series specifically to cover 'everything Azure Powershell'. Not just creating resources, but also quering data for reports using powershell (backup status, patching information etc) and also a video to understand why we use certain symbols and syntax in powershell and what each symbol does and which scenarios we should use them. I'm sure lot of people would benefit from this. Thanks and keep up with your good work..!

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thank you you are very kind. This is a great feedback and of course I have big plans when it comes to this channel. But having full course on PowerShell with Azure is surely on my mind. Thanks for the feedback, I will write it down and expect more videos on PowerShell!

[@mcdelive]

@@AdamMarczakYT Nice one Thanks. Looking forward to it... :)

[@johnvardy9559]

​@@AdamMarczakYThey instead of PowerShell could i use bash for every automation.?

[@mehedihassancse]

Hi Adam, Have you already published the PowerShell course you planned? Thank you very much for The Az900 Tutorials@@AdamMarczakYT

[@royalcanadianbearforce9841]

Adam thank you so much for making these videos! As a student trying to learn about powershell and azure these have been invaluable to me!

[@AdamMarczakYT]

My pleasure! Great to hear that :)

[@user-fi8vn8ie4l]

just discover powershell is must know for me as venture into azure administrator, just starting to learn and find the explanations very easy to understand,thanks sir

[@TheHealingAgent9]

Amazing presentation sir. Looking forward to watching more of your content as I'll be taking the MD100/MD101 soon. Keep at it! 👍🏾👍🏾

[@ganeshkchoppa]

Thanks Adam. You made it very simple

[@eswarshyam9024]

It is an excellent tutorial for whom started to learn powershell for automation of tasks in Azure Env. Thank you

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Glad it was helpful!

[@TheRagarwal2]

Excellent explanation!!! You made it very SIMPLE.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Glad it was helpful!

[@YashBhardwaj1]

Thank you very much because very few teachers teaches Azure CLI interface, thank you again.

[@amritarora8897]

The way you explain I like this ! You are unique

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thank you so much 😀

[@ventin75]

Great intro video to powershell. Thank You!

[@harshakarunaratne4048]

Adam - you're the best. These videos are fab. Thank you

[@AdamMarczakYT]

My pleasure!

[@pavanuppala6528]

Very good explanation... Really got interested in the azure powershell by this video and your teaching..❤️ thank you

[@patmarek1222]

Great intro to Az module. That's a video to share. Dzięki!

[@sushenvashikar8280]

Thank you, Adam! The content was very informative.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@prashantbakshi2572]

Very nice tutorials and very helpful to learn the key concepts. Thanks for creating the video learning sessions.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Glad it was helpful!

[@freshmaker4o]

Nice introduction Az PowerShell. Just a short note - ForEach runs consecutively, for parallel you need the Foreach-Object -Parallel

[@raviv5109]

Again awesome! Thx for making this video.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks again! :)

[@shabiabbas8392]

Really great job.. Keep it up Adam

[@ITCLOUD13]

TOP Explanation of the concepts Ps ... Merci beaucoup Mr Adam

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thank you! :) Glad you liked it.

[@PradeepChauhan17]

Wow! Thanks for that informative video.

[@kuttikrishnankodoth1463]

Hi , Thank you for the great tutorial .. am a big fan of yours ..!!! great way of explaining things .Thanks much !!

[@jasonliu2574]

Great tutorial! Thank you so much!!!

[@akashsawant2926]

Thanks! Amazing video and nice explanation!

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Glad you liked it!

[@henrysg-iPhone14]

A great demo and start for az ps.

[@mynameis211]

As always great work

[@sorafreez2215]

you are my savior.. thank you so much for this guide

[@noeliagarcia2976]

Hey Adam! How are you? I love all the information you share with us! Thanks to you I approved the AZ900, now I'm studying the AZ104 and I would like to know if you have the course prepared just like the AZ900. That could be really amazing! Thanks in advance!

[@johnnynightingale3426]

Good stuff! Thank you for sharing.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

You bet! Thanks!

[@nakirwamonkir]

Thank you for this useful tutorial very well explained bravo

[@AdamMarczakYT]

You are welcome! Thanks!

[@abdulrahemansyed4313]

Well explained. Thanks for the Cool Video. Please make more video like this on Azure automation!

[@AdamMarczakYT]

I will try my best, thanks!

[@TotallyNotAuroras2ndChannel]

Very nice. You're quite a smart man.

[@akash25446]

Nice... Thank you so much for the video

[@nchowdhury7602]

Thank you for the video, very useful

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thank you :) always happy to hear that videos help out.

[@rajeshtadivaka9473]

Adam you are awesome . Really helpfull I strongly recomend to others .. Thank you is not enough...

[@AdamMarczakYT]

I appreciate that!

[@raman.thatikunta]

Hello, Awesome tuts. Quick question. Can I use ARM templates or PowerShell for automation? In other words, do they provide the same functionality? Thank you.

[@TPOneMedia]

Excellent content always

[@reginaldomoreno9898]

Very good these tutorials. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Could you create a series of tutorials on logs and monitoring?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Great suggestion! Thanks, hopefully soon!

[@taksiobs]

Great tutorial!

[@divyanshjain6679]

Big fan of your tutorial Adam.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks :)

[@aniketsamant455]

Another nice session

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thank you!

[@mohdjaved-ch3we]

Excellent sir..

[@pavankumars9313]

Very good 👍 and well explained

[@kennistonokorie9408]

Your God sent, keep doing the good work. thanks a mili

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thank you, I will!

[@chandan15941]

excellent tutorial

[@vijaygupta0842]

Such a good video . It is enhancing knowledge

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks!

[@CosmeJunior]

Amazing video!!! Gosh!! thanks Adam

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Glad you liked it!

[@rajkumarj2676]

Thank you sir .... I am from India

[@amolnikam5010]

Simply amazing..

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks a lot 😊

[@ikennauzu3344]

Hi Adam! Thank you so much for the AZ 900 course it really helped me pass the exam. Please do you have anything to help with the AZ 104? Thanks again.

[@terryliu3635]

Very useful, thanks!

[@AdamMarczakYT]

You're welcome!

[@212mayur]

Hi Adam. Thanks you so much for this video. could you create a learning session on Metrics. How to get details of Metrics using powershell scripts (like SUM of Request count) etc.

[@vijayreddysanayapalli4755]

Awesome presentation

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks a lot

[@samarmasood5232]

$great video Adam ! -from SA

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thank you :) Appreciated!

[@prateeksinghal92]

Hi Adam..amazing tut. Can you please help in creating a script which gives output for ....1. VMs enrolled in update management, their deployment schedules, missing updates etc in one go?

[@kishorekumaryadala]

Hi Adam Marczak you are doing a great Job will you make a Azure Entire session in one (or) two Videos?

[@vishalindia1970]

Very good video

[@collinsenechukwu1100]

GREAT JOB Can we install the AZ PowerShell on our local PC and connect our AZ account, is that all that is required?

[@rajeshsura189]

Very good information thanks for your videos and I requested to u if you have any idea how did we get the recovery service vault backup protection details like soft deleted option is enabled or not ??

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Like this docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/az.recoveryservices/get-azrecoveryservicesvaultproperty?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556&view=azps-4.8.0

[@MrPraveenkarn]

Thank you Adam..

[@AdamMarczakYT]

My pleasure!

[@user-eg1ss7im6q]

does it need install any prerequisite to do pragmatically create storage within vs (16:22 your clip)? as i got the error. thanks

[@aloktyagi1472]

Hey Adam - Hope you are good and staying safe. How did you get the list of cmdlets after writing "Get-AzCon" and it shows the list ? Thanks !

[@AdamMarczakYT]

In ISE press CTRL+SPACE :) Thanks! Stay safe too!

[@hazemradi1283]

hi, im trying to follow this step by step. on the first step I get errors telling me it doesn't recognise the term install and -module and force and allowclobber, do i need to identify them first? what am i doing wrong? thanks in advance

[@edb6894]

Subbed, Please make more videos about PowerShell.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks, maybe!

[@andrezmvideomaker]

When I create using Ubuntu 2004 , this message always appears: "Can't find the image 'UbuntuLTS'." How to solve ???

[@nitaprasad3855]

Hi..... How to run powershell files on self host agent on Linux? When running the pipeline it's giving parsing error. Main file from which it need to be triggered is not able to find out. What should i do? Please suggest

[@sushmas3864]

Thank you Adam!. How can we pull the Azure DB parameters ( Allocation/used space) using Powershell.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Try this stackoverflow.com/questions/61387664/azure-powershell-extracting-azure-sql-database-information and this docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/file-space-manage?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556

[@sushmas3864]

@@AdamMarczakYT Thank you!!!

[@charityolubunmiadekoya9432]

I like this thanks

[@AdamMarczakYT]

my pleasure :)

[@jayakrishna9153]

Very good

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thank you!

[@achieveunlimitedenergy]

Very nice Video

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks

[@TienNguyen-cr9ir]

Hello Adam, I'm doing CI/CD configuration on azure to publish PowerBI & SSRS reports using Powershell and I'm stuck on how to get changed files on branches, from there change the connection string to the database and then publish to dev workspace. I got complicated and confuses to write the code on Powershell script, can you make a video about how to do those things. Thank you

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Hey. I do understand the struggle but unfortunately I can't help you with your coding :( I have no capacity to do so, but I always advise people to break down their use case into several small questions and use stackoverflow to post those. People on stackoverflow are very helpful and there are thousands of people, not just me :) I reply there sometimes too!

[@TienNguyen-cr9ir]

@@AdamMarczakYT thank you. love u from Vietnam

[@nayeemuddinmoinuddin2186]

Hi Adam, I am working on Azure Data Factory and requirement for me is to get list of entire history of pipeline run, run status , execution time. Please suggest how can i get these information either via Powershell or otherwise. Thanks

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Hey, for PowerShell use Az modules for DataFactory docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/az.datafactory/?view=azps-3.3.0

[@dinamik967]

Hello Adam, I tried to use Vs code but I cannot properly login to Azure. If I press F1 and use "sign in" option I will be prompted to my account. But I don't see my Visual Studio account. Why is that? Furthermore, I don't have the Connect-AzAccount command in my Vs code. I have only Cconnect-AzureRmAccount ...

[@igornowicki29]

You use light mode for vs code. Literally unwatchable :P Great courses Adam. Was looking for something on the topic on Udemy, but yours beat the hell of it.

[@khushbukeshari5577]

Can we create vm through bash in cloudshell?

[@nashm6755]

Hii Adam could you hep me please, I had an issue in the first installing command ? how i can fixe it please

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Hi. Try to google error message returned, the common issues have their solutions described.

[@vivekchoudhary8745]

subbed

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks :)

[@yogeshvarhade2128]

nice one. If possible can you upload a video on azure front door service ?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks! Front Door and Application Gateway are on the list but the list itself is quite long so not sure when will those be up. But they sure will get there eventually!

[@rahulgupta4068]

Hi, The options such as for locations is not appearing for me in Visual Studio code Do I need to install any additional packages for it?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Check if you have modules installed as well as powershell extensionf or vscode.

[@77zishan]

Hi adam! What is the difference between select-azsubscription and set-azcontext please? thank you

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Select-AzSubscription is just alias of Set-AzContext. You can view and verify this in very detail if you set $DebugPreference to "Continue".

[@77zishan]

@@AdamMarczakYT thank you

[@RPG_ash]

nice video

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Thanks

[@tasvtv9219]

hi adam, rdscontext not found. please run: add-rdsaccount -deploymenturl having error above, i was trying to get the list of users on our hostpool

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Sorry but I can't help out with coding exercises. Microsoft technet forums or stackoverflow are better places for this. There is tremendous amount of people there who can help out.

[@rajeshsura189]

I'm unable to get list of usage comments after click ctrl + space button so for that do I need to install any module

[@AdamMarczakYT]

intelli-sense depends on the tool, which one are you using?

[@rajeshsura189]

@@AdamMarczakYT I'm using AZ modules

[@rajeshsura189]

Hi Adam .. your videos are very usefully i need your help to get the rsv vault soft delete enabled or not if possible can u share the script or any blog that would erythromycin help to me

[@AdamMarczakYT]

You already asked that Rajesh. I also already replied to your comment. Please check it out.

[@rajeshsura189]

@@AdamMarczakYT thank u 💓

[@MohammadFazil]

great video 👌 But control space is not working for me 😐

[@zbigniewklasik3527]

What is better Azure PowerShell or Azure CLI? When should I use which?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

hey Zbyszek. This is a great question, honestly I'd say you will achieve pretty much anything using both. I personally prefer PowerShell because of rich scripting capabilities, integration with other SDKs, easy parallelization and ability to run automated scripts on Azure Automation service. But some thing like Azure DevOps are easier using CLI. So pick the right tool for the job rather than stick to one. I know it complicates things needing to know both but I ended up using both depending on the tasks.

[@MortenHolje]

Azure CLI: + Can run in both Powershell, Linux Terminal and CMD. - This complicates things when you want to save variables. Since declaring variables is dependent upon environment. + Syntax is shorter Powershell: + Object based (For that reason I find it easier to extract single pieces of information from something I retrieve from PS than AZ CLI) + Rich toolbox which is not Azure-specific for working with the data you extract. I prefer Powershell as I can use that for more than just Azure, but you don't really need to chose. Just pick one and start using it :)

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Really good points. #teamPowerShell

[@johnvardy9559]

cloud security need powershell?

[@dipeshshrestha2086]

How to display all the branches of a particular resource group and switch between branches (by default it is master ) and display corresponding pipelines

[@AdamMarczakYT]

I think you are confusing and mixing some topics. What does version repository have to do with Azure resource groups?

[@dipeshshrestha2086]

@@AdamMarczakYT yes adam so i will explain you my scenario, I have my ADF configured with git and i create braches for pipeline development of each functionality/story and once it is working good I merge it with master branch. So now I am willing to do automated testing through powershell to my brnch pipelines before merging. I am able to get resource, subscription info through powershell but when I try to display datasets it only displays the datasets of master branch. so can you please tell me the commands by which i can switch between branches and do testing for only particular pipeline?

[@RadhaJhaq]

Can I get some idea to create folder in adls gen2 using PS

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Here docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/data-lake-storage-directory-file-acl-powershell?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556

[@jayakrishna9153]

Are you giving Online classes on Azure..?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

This year I planned youtube channel. This was very successful, classes... well maybe next year. We will see. :)

[@vijaygupta0842]

Is there any way to configure backup alert notification in RSV via Powershell ?

[@AdamMarczakYT]

Check out this command docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/az.recoveryservices/set-azrecoveryservicesasralertsetting?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556&view=azps-4.7.0

[@vijaygupta0842]

@@AdamMarczakYT thanks a lot for ur response

[@sanjeeviraja5972]

Very informative. Clear teachings. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Hope you have a plan to create a tutorial for 'Running and ADF pipelines using Power Shell'. If already done, provide us the link. Thanks.

[@collinsenechukwu1100]

unable to connect to my AZ account

[@joel143ful]

Nice tutorials buddy. Make a udemy course.

[@AdamMarczakYT]

I just might some time in future. But for now interested in sharing for free ;)

[@Sathiyamurthy.G]

handso

[@yusufskosana8381]

L struggled to make soft