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The Azure IaaS Announcements from Ignite 2017

Aidan Finn shares a summary of the improvements to the Azure virtual machine and related services and features announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2017 conference.

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PowerShell Classes Part 5 — Classes or PSCustom Objects?

Custom PowerShell objects are one way to represent a set of data as a single object and so are PowerShell classes. In this article, take a look at some of the similarities and differences between the two object structures so that you can best define custom objects for your needs.

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PowerShell Classes Part 4 — Constructors and Inheritance

Take your PowerShell class programming to the next level! Define constructors to simplify the creation of the classes, and use inheritance to create a hierarchy of classes and subclasses that inherit properties and methods.

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PowerShell Classes Part 3 — Using Methods

In part 3 of the PowerShell Class series, Missy Januszko discusses how to define methods to perform actions against an instance of the class.

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Creating Azure Virtual Machine Performance Alerts

Aidan Finn shows you how to use Azure virtual machine performance threshold alerts to trigger email alerts or start automated-response actions.

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PowerShell Classes Part 2 — Enumerated Types

In the second part of the series on PowerShell classes, learn how and where to declare constant values using Enums and explore the differences between enums and ValidateSet.

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Starting an Azure Runbook from Your Phone

Aidan Finn shows you how to execute Azure Automation runbooks from your phone.

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Deploying Azure Automation in the Azure Portal

Aidan Finn explains how to use the Azure Portal to deploy Azure Automation, install additional PowerShell modules, and ensure that all PowerShell modules are up to date.

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Triggering Actions with Webhooks in Azure

Aidan Finn explains what a webhook is and how to use them.

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Creating Your First PowerShell Class

Take your PowerShell programming to a new level by learning how to use classes.

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