This video is a follow-up to a previous one on Azure Automation with Arc-enabled Hybrid Workers. Hybrid Workers extend runbooks to a private network, but not every computer needs to be a Hybrid Worker. In this video, we review using PowerShell Remoting with Hybrid Workers to build idempotent runbooks that target computers inside a private network. Then we use a shared credential resource to authenticate the runbook in the local environment. Multiple examples showing how to target other systems with PowerShell from the Hybrid Worker are provided.
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ARM Templates are written with JSON and are at the core of Azure Resource Manager deployments. I have used and developed templates for months. Although successful, I ran into issues with formatting and syntax this week and decided to take a step back and get a better understanding of the underlying JSON used in these templates. In this post, I start from the beginning, exploring JSON as it relates to ARM templates. 
Odds are, you were Googling something like ‘write event log PowerShell’ and you stumbled on this page. If that’s the case and you just want to write an event to the Event Log to test something like a monitoring or alerting app, I won’t disappoint, below is what you need to know. If you want a little more information on writing to the Event Log as part of a script, keep going.