Knowing how to automate processes in today's IT organizations is critical. System administrators typically have to manage hundreds of servers and a cloud environment and provide support to users.

The cloud and automation go hand in hand. Use Azure Automation and runbooks to deploy and manage Azure infrastructure and platform services. One of the great advantages of using the public cloud is ...

Azure Automation, like other cloud automation services, reduces the manual effort associated with tedious, error-prone tasks, ranging from deploying a virtual server to weekly or monthly maintenance ...

Any organization making use of the cloud will want to leverage the power of infrastructure automation. This holds true whether you’re tapping Amazon Web Serices, Microsoft Azure, or any other cloud ...

If you are an old hand at Microsoft SQL Server, you have probably used the SQL Server Agent (i.e., SQL Agent) service and MSDB database for the last 20 years. With a humble and largely unchanged ...

Keeping up with all of the patches an organization needs already takes careful and quick planning. Mixing the location of OSes in the cloud and on premises adds another challenge. Microsoft created ...