zjalexander / updatemanagement

PowerShell examples for UpdateManagement

UpdateManagement

PowerShell examples for UpdateManagement

Using these scripts

These are samples intended for use with Update Management pre/post scripts.

Requirements

You will need:

• An Automation Account + linked Log Analytics workspace with Update Management enabled
• A RunAs account for interacting with the Azure services used by these scripts
  • If you are using these scripts for VMs across multiple subscriptions, be sure to add the RunAs service principle to those subscriptions as a role with the correct permissions
• The ThreadJob module imported into your Automation Account
• The latest versions of the AzureRM modules

updatemanagement's Issues

Catch common errors

The following error conditions are commonly encountered and should be caught with an intelligible error message displayed to users:

1. No RunAs account
2. No ThreadJob module
3. Modules out of date

Variable issue with Turnoff

@zjalexander

Does this still work in 2021?
I see the turn on feature works, turn off doesn't

Environments Context

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{[AzureCloud, AzureCloud], [AzureChinaCloud, AzureChinaCloud], [AzureUSGovernment, AzureUSGovernment]} Microsoft.Azur...

No machines to turn off

Get-AutomationVariable : Variable not found. To create this Variable, navigate to the Variables blade and create a Variable named: PrescriptContext(numberredacted) Refer doc for more details (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/shared-resources/variables#create-and-get-a-variable) At line:86 char:13 + $variable = Get-AutomationVariable -Name $runId + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (:) [Get-AutomationVariable], AssetManagementClientException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : 3,Orchestrator.AssetManagement.Cmdlets.GetAutomationVariableCmdlet

Wait for VMs to start

VMs need a little bit of time to fully start after running Start-AzureRmVm . There should be a bit of a wait before kicking off the update deployment, potentially configurable?