ATA Learning Tutorials

Automating VM Deployment in Azure with PowerShell

Learn how to automate the deployment of a Windows VM on Azure using PowerShell. This guide covers network setup, NSG rules, and IIS installation.

Adam Bertram 4 min. read

How to Create and Use Azure KeyVault Secrets with PowerShell

Learn how to securely store and retrieve secrets in Azure KeyVault using PowerShell, including creating a KeyVault, adding secrets, and accessing them in your scripts.

Adam Bertram 2 min. read

Automating Azure VM Power Management with Runbooks

Learn how to create an Azure Automation runbook to start and stop Azure VMs on a schedule, saving costs and improving resource management.

Adam Bertram 2 min. read

How to Create Your First Azure Automation Runbook with PowerShell

Learn how to create, publish and run your first Azure Automation runbook using PowerShell and the Azure CLI. This step-by-step guide walks through setting up an Automation account, creating a runbook, and executing it in Azure.

Adam Bertram 2 min. read

How to Create Azure Service Principal with Certificates (PowerShell)

Learn how to authenticate to Azure using a service principal with a self-signed certificate, which offers greater security than using client secrets.

Adam Bertram 1 min. read

How to Create Azure Service Principals in PowerShell

Learn how to create Azure service principals using PowerShell, enabling secure automation for managing Azure resources like virtual machines.

Adam Bertram 2 min. read

How to Authenticate to Azure Using PowerShell (User and Device Authentication)

Learn how to authenticate to Azure using PowerShell, including module installation, interactive and device login methods, verifying sessions, and managing multiple subscriptions.

Adam Bertram 2 min. read

Managing DHCP Leases and Reservations with PowerShell

In this tutorial, we'll explore how to manage DHCP leases and reservations using PowerShell. Effective lease and reservation management is crucial for maintaining a smooth-running network, preventing IP address conflicts, and ensuring that critical devices always receive the same IP address.

Adam Bertram 3 min. read

Getting Started with PowerShell and the ServiceNow API

Unlock the power of ServiceNow's API! Learn how to set up your developer account, create an OAuth app, and make your first API call using PowerShell.

Adam Bertram 4 min. read

Tracking Down User Logons with PowerShell and XPath

When working with Windows event logs, especially the Security log, there might be instances where you need to extract specific information from events.

Adam Bertram 5 min. read

PowerShell

How to Leverage Reusable PS Remoting Sessions in your Scripts

PS remoting lets you execute commands remotely. Learn how to create and manage persistent sessions in this short how-to covering creating and managing sessions.

Adam Bertram 2 min. read

PowerShell

PowerShell Tool-Building 101: Building a Computer Inventory Report

Join me on an exciting journey as we build a powerful PowerShell tool for generating computer inventory reports! From CSV files to CIM queries and error handling, we'll walk you through each step as we go. Let's script our way to success!

Adam Bertram < 1 min. read

PowerShell

Upload a PowerShell Script to Intune (With PowerShell) From Scratch

Automate deploying PowerShell scripts to Intune devices with Azure app registration, Graph API, and more in this step-by-step tutorial.

Adam Bertram 4 min. read

PowerShell

PowerShell Basics: Navigating CSV Files

Adam Bertram < 1 min. read

PowerShell Testing Mastery with Data-Driven Pester

I’ve been using Pester for a long time off and on. I’ve always been obsessed with ensuring reliability in my PowerShell code. After writing the Pester Book and mentioning some of the methodologies I used with Pester v4 I’ll present in this blog post, I’ve since learned Pester v5 makes my work so much easier.

Adam Bertram 5 min. read

Your Go-To PowerShell Template for HTTP-Triggered Azure Functions

Struggling with messy Azure Functions PowerShell code? Learn how to adapt your scripts for serverless, validate HTTP parameters, throw descriptive errors, and bind PowerShell output to HTTP responses for robust web-friendly functions.

Adam Bertram 9 min. read