Managing Azure RemoteApp using Azure Automation

[AZURE.IMPORTANT] Azure RemoteApp is being discontinued. Read the announcement for details.

This guide will introduce you to the Azure Automation service, and how it can be used to simplify management of Azure RemoteApp.

What is Azure Automation?

Azure Automation is an Azure service for simplifying cloud management through process automation. Using Azure Automation, manual, frequently-repeated, long-running, and error-prone tasks can be automated to increase reliability, efficiency, and time to value for your organization.

Azure Automation provides a highly-reliable, highly-available workflow execution engine that scales to meet your needs. In Azure Automation, processes can be kicked off manually, by 3rd-party systems, or at scheduled intervals so that tasks happen exactly when needed.

Reduce operational overhead and free up IT and DevOps staff to focus on work that adds business value by moving your cloud management tasks to be run automatically by Azure Automation.

How can Azure Automation help manage Azure RemoteApp?

RemoteApp can be managed in Azure Automation by using the PowerShell cmdlets that are available in the Azure PowerShell tools. Azure Automation has these RemoteApp PowerShell cmdlets available out of the box, so that you can perform all of your RemoteApp management tasks within the service. You can also pair these cmdlets in Azure Automation with the cmdlets for other Azure services, to automate complex tasks across Azure services and 3rd party systems.

Next steps

Now that you've learned the basics of Azure Automation and how it can be used to manage Azure RemoteApp, follow these links to learn more about Azure Automation.