The Azure Automation PowerShell ISE add on makes it easy to author and test your runbooks in your local PowerShell ISE.

Note: This project is currently in development. Please open issues found or provide feedback in the feedback section of the add on.

• Enables use of the Automation activities (Get-AutomationVariable, Get-AutomationPSCredential, etc) in local PowerShell Workflows
• Allows creating and editing the values of Automation assets locally
• Allows easy tracking of local changes to runbooks and assets vs the state of these items in an Azure Automation account
• Allows syncing of runbook / asset changes between a local runbook authoring environment and an Azure Automation account
• Allows testing of PowerShell workflow scripts locally in the ISE and also in the automation service without changing the runbook

To install the latest build of the add-on, follow the instructions for our Early adopter release

To build from source:

• Download or clone this repository, and extract from zip if necessary
• Open AutomationISE/AutomationISE.sln in Visual Studio
• Build the solution. NuGet will pull the required packages.
• Put the resulting binaries in the AzureAutomationAuthoringToolkit/ISEaddon directory
• Open the PowerShell ISE, and run the Install-AzureAutomationIseAddOn.ps1 PowerShell script
• The Azure Automation ISE add-on should appear on the right side of the PowerShell ISE:
• From now on, opening the PowerShell ISE should automatically load the Azure Automation ISE add-on

• Open the PowerShell ISE, and run Uninstall-AzureAutomationIseAddOn
• Restart the Powershell ISE
• From now on, opening the PowerShell ISE will no longer cause the Azure Automation ISE add-on to be loaded