PowerShell Script to Create and Link Schedules in Azure Automation

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Hi All,

Lately I've been playing with Azure automation and needed to create schedules to kick off Runbooks at certain times of the day. Rather than doing this manually I decided to just write a simple PowerShell script to create these for me automatically, since I may need to do this task again in the future.  To do this I need to ensure I have Azure PowerShell configured and connected . I wont go into how in this blog please use the following blog as a reference How to install and configure Azure PowerShell

I then used the following script I wrote to create and register each Schedule

 

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$Days = ("Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday")
$StartDate = ("26/01/2015 08:30","27/01/2015 08:30","28/01/2015 08:30","29/01/2015 08:30","30/01/2015 08:30")
$EndDate = ("26/01/2015 20:30","27/01/2015 20:30","28/01/2015 20:30","29/01/2015 20:30","30/01/2015 20:30")
$Accountname = "yourAutomationAccountname"
$Count = 0

ForEach ($Day in $Days)
{

New-AzureAutomationSchedule -AutomationAccountName $Accountname -Name "Start AzureVMs $($Day)" -StartTime "$($StartDate[$Count])" -DayInterval 7
Register-AzureAutomationScheduledRunbook -AutomationAccountName $Accountname -Name Start-AllAzureVM -ScheduleName "Start AzureVMs $($Day)"
New-AzureAutomationSchedule -AutomationAccountName $Accountname -Name "Stop AzureVMs $($Day)" -StartTime "$($EndDate[$Count])" -DayInterval 7
Register-AzureAutomationScheduledRunbook -AutomationAccountName $Accountname -Name Stop-AllAzureVM -ScheduleName "Stop AzureVMs $($Day)"

$Count ++

}

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We can see that before I run my script I have no schedules attached to my Start-AllAzureVM and Stop-AzureVM Runbooks

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we then run the script from which you should see a similar output to the one below.

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We now can see that both of our Runbooks have Schedules created and assigned.

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As always if you improve or have similar scripts to share feel free to comment below.