Automate Internal Workflow with Azure Runbooks

Location: California

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Problems

The client had a BizTalk server, in these servers’ clients, want to send and receive some BizTalk ports and BizTalk instances automatically.

In the past, Patagonia’s integration team had to enable or disable the services manually. Later it was decided that this manual maintenance work should be replaced with scheduled jobs that take care of enabling and disabling of the services automatically once the schedule is set manually.

Solutions

Solution led by Allied Consultant was to, made a component at Azure runbook in PowerShell. RunBook runs in a very specific time and meanwhile executes a code in PowerShell which was written in PowerShell language, connected to the client’s on-premises system through a Hybrid connection. This helped the client’s server to enable or disable the ports.

Use scheduled jobs in the Azure Automation Account. The scheduled job is a piece of code that runs on a scheduled instance of time. A job is composed of a runbook and a Schedule.
The solution works in the following manner:

Solutions

In order to enable or disable a logic app or BizTalk Host Instance/Receive Location/Send Port, we have created four runbooks in Azure automation account