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READING LOGS

Let us say that I wish to check in detail that everything went well on my VM. How would I do that? I can log in to my VM from Azure and check the local logs. The files of interest to us will be the following two locations on VM hard drive:

C:\Packages\Plugins\Microsoft.Powershell.DSC\1.0.0.0

C:\WindowsAzure\Logs\Plugins\Microsoft.Powershell.DSC\1.0.0.0

You may find that your VM has a newer version of Powershell DSC extension,in which case the version number at the end of the path might be slightly different.

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#File: C:\examples\IISInstall.ps1
configuration IISInstall 
{ 
    node ("localhost") 
    { 
        WindowsFeature IIS 
        { 
            Ensure = "Present" 
            Name = "Web-Server"                       

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<#
Let's say we want to ensure that a virtual machine has a local user with certain credentials. 
We’ll create a new configuration, located in the file user_configuration.ps1:
#>
configuration Main
{
    param(
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
        [ValidateNotNullorEmpty()]
        [PSCredential]

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  Add-AzureAccount
  
  $SubName = "be-dev"
  Set-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $SubName
  Select-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $SubName


  $workingDir = "P:\posh\config\BE-Dev\VMs"
  $vmName = "eisdev-dc01"
  $serviceName = "eisdev-dc"

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Get-DnsClientServerAddress
Set-DNSClientServerAddress -InterfaceAlias "Ethernet" –ServerAddresses ("DNS1","DNS2")
Get-DnsClientServerAddress

$domain = "DOMAIN"
$password = "PASSWORD" | ConvertTo-SecureString -asPlainText -Force
$username = "$domain\USER" 
$credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($username,$password)
Add-Computer -DomainName $domain -Credential $credential

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function Edit-XmlNodes {
param (
    [xml] $doc = $(throw "doc is a required parameter"),
    [string] $xpath = $(throw "xpath is a required parameter"),
    [string] $value = $(throw "value is a required parameter"),
    [bool] $condition = $true
)    
    if ($condition -eq $true) {
        $nodes = $doc.SelectNodes($xpath)
         

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# Retrieve all available items
$allGalleryItems = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://gallery.azure.com/Microsoft.Gallery/GalleryItems?api-version=2015-04-01&includePreview=true" | ConvertFrom-Json

# Get all items published by Microsoft
$allGalleryItems | Where-Object { $_.PublisherDisplayName -eq "Microsoft" }

# Get all gallery items with "SQL" in the description
$allGalleryItems | Where-Object { $_.Description -match "SQL" }

# Save default template for all items under directory "C:\Templates"

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Switch-AzureMode AzureResourceManager

#Show all types
(Get-AzureProvider).ResourceTypes

#Get just the Compute Resource Types
((Get-AzureProvider) | Where-object { $_.ProviderNamespace -eq "Microsoft.Compute" }).resourceTypes

((Get-AzureProvider) | Where-object { $_.ProviderNamespace -eq "Microsoft.Network" }).resourceTypes

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<#
.SYNOPSIS
Create a configuration transformation

.DESCRIPTION
This script runs an ASP.NET configuration transformation, given a source
configuration and transformation file.  MSBuild.exe is assumed to be in
the path, and Visual Studio 2012 should be installed.  Modify the path to
Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.dll if a different version of Visual Studio
is installed.

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#!/bin/zsh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          hubot
# Required-Start:    $all
# Required-Stop:     $all
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: starts the hubot service
# Description:       starts the Hubot bot for the Campfire rooms