{"id":5751,"date":"2015-06-04T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/06\/04\/powertip-start-azure-automation-job-from-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:47:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:47:36","slug":"powertip-start-azure-automation-job-from-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-start-azure-automation-job-from-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Start Azure Automation Job from PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Azure PowerShell cmdlets to launch a remote Azure Automation job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I trigger an Azure Automation job from a regular computer?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Start-AzureAutomationRunbook<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet. For example, to trigger the runbook called&nbsp;<br \/><b>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;HSG-StopAzureVM<\/b>&nbsp;that is attached to the&nbsp;<b>HSG-AzureAutomation<\/b>&nbsp;instance, run:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\">Start-AzureAutomationRunbook -Name HSG-ShutdownAzureVM -AutomationAccountName HSG-AzureAutomation<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Azure PowerShell cmdlets to launch a remote Azure Automation job. &nbsp;How can I trigger an Azure Automation job from a regular computer? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Start-AzureAutomationRunbook&nbsp;cmdlet. For example, to trigger the runbook called&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;HSG-StopAzureVM&nbsp;that is attached to the&nbsp;HSG-AzureAutomation&nbsp;instance, run: Start-AzureAutomationRunbook -Name HSG-ShutdownAzureVM -AutomationAccountName HSG-AzureAutomation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-5751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Azure PowerShell cmdlets to launch a remote Azure Automation job. &nbsp;How can I trigger an Azure Automation job from a regular computer? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Start-AzureAutomationRunbook&nbsp;cmdlet. For example, to trigger the runbook called&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;HSG-StopAzureVM&nbsp;that is attached to the&nbsp;HSG-AzureAutomation&nbsp;instance, run: Start-AzureAutomationRunbook -Name HSG-ShutdownAzureVM -AutomationAccountName HSG-AzureAutomation<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}