The first thing I want the script to do is to check for these two modules. For connecting to Azure and to deploy the resources later on I will need to separate Powershell modules, Az.Accounts and Az.Resources. To deploy the resources with Powershell I will need to connect with Azure. Deploy the Azure resources stated in the ARM template.Instead, use the Using statement, introduced in PowerShell 5.0, which imports the module, including its classes, into the caller's session. The run.ps1 script has a couple of purposes. But, to import the classes defined in a module into your session, you can't use Import-Module or even Requires-Module. The reason why I chose to use Powershell is for making it easy to transfer the pipeline to a different site such as Azure DevOps. You could also deploy your resources in Github Actions with the Action: can read more about this method on Microsoft Docs The tests folder will contain all pester tests you create for quality assurance for your deploymentįor actually deploying the resources I have chosen to use Powershell. In this case, it only contains the single ARM template azuredeploy.json, but if needed you could deploy multiple templates and store them here. The templates folder contains the ARM templates. Step 11: Import PowerShell CmdLet script into Module If we want to achieve our goal to make our function to be CmdLet that will have the same look and feel as PowerShell CmdLet delivered by Microsoft we need to do the next two additional steps. The scripts folder contains scripts for running or support the pipeline, in this case, it contains the script run.ps1 which will primarily run the pipeline actions and deploy things, such as Service Principal and Resource Group Near the top of your HelloWorld.
This folder contains the parameters file for the ARM Template. To review what's going on, your original Windows PowerShell script calls the loadDialog.ps1 helper cmdlet, which in turn, loads the XAML form into a variable and creates matching Windows PowerShell variables for all the elements in the tree, based on the Name attribute. I organize the repository in a very simple layout with folders containing files according to their function Root\ The Service Principal will be created through Powershell, I will explain this later in the article How I Organize the Repo
You can download the script here: Files/Import-MDTApps.First of all, you can find the repository I am showcasing on my Github Account Here. Output when using –Verbose during import. You could also add –Verbose if you like lots of text on the screen. \Import-MDTApps.ps1 -ImportFolder C:\Script\AppFolder -MDTFolder C:\MDTBuildLab The syntax for the script looks like this: You need to have MDT installed since it is using PowerShell cmdlets from MDT. The folder from where to import and the deployment share. First, save the MyScript.ps1 as MyScript.psm1 and load the file by using below command. The major advantage of using Import-Module is that you can unload them from the shell if you need to, and it keeps the variables in the functions from creeping into the shell. The script is rather easy, it takes 2 parameters. We can also import a function from PSM1 file by using Import-Module command. “PowerShell.exe -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -File $Install” The default cmdline for all imported apps will be. This is the tricky part, since there is no way to know that it will be a guessing game and the command line might need to be modified after import, but I rather modify 2-3 applications instead of importing all of them manually. That means that you should store the real setup files in a subfolder, I usually use. The important thing is that it will import the first “hit”. ps1 files it will then import them as applications. Basically it reads the from the folder structure you specify and the script will then scan the folder structure for folders, assuming that every folder is an application. This parts can be modified, edit, or you can add your own. You don’t need to be a genius to figure out that 90% of all the apps pretty much have the same folder and file structure in the root of the application folder, so why don’t we use PowerShell to import all the apps based on some guessing? The Logic: Based on the fact that almost all my apps in MDT is deployed using VB or PowerShell wrappers its is just one file in a folder and then there is a subfolder with the content. The process is easy and fast, but it is boring and if you have more then 5 apps it is really boring. Often I need to import applications into the Deployment workbench and that is fine.