private static void CreateSchedulerJob(AzureDetails details) { // retrieve the windows azure managment certificate from current user var store = new X509Store(StoreName.My, StoreLocation.CurrentUser); store.Open(OpenFlags.ReadWrite); var certificate = store.Certificates.Find(X509FindType.FindByThumbprint, "<THUMBPRINT of CERTIFICATE>", false)[0]; store.Close(); // create management credencials and cloud service management client var credentials = new CertificateCloudCredentials("<Your subscription ID>", certificate); var cloudServiceMgmCli = new CloudServiceManagementClient(credentials); // create job collection var schedulerMgmCli = new SchedulerManagementClient(credentials); var jobCollectionIntrinsicSettings = new JobCollectionIntrinsicSettings() { Plan = JobCollectionPlan.Free, Quota = new JobCollectionQuota() { MaxJobCount = 5, MaxJobOccurrence = 1, MaxRecurrence = new JobCollectionMaxRecurrence() { Frequency = JobCollectionRecurrenceFrequency.Hour, Interval = 24 } } }; var jobCollectionCreateParameters = new JobCollectionCreateParameters() { IntrinsicSettings = jobCollectionIntrinsicSettings, Label = "RunBackupJob" }; var jobCollectionCreateResponse = schedulerMgmCli.JobCollections.Create(details.ResourceGroup, "RunBackupJob", jobCollectionCreateParameters); //generate sas token var storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("AzureWebJobsStorage")); //Set the expiry time and permissions for the container. //In this case no start time is specified, so the shared access signature becomes valid immediately. var sasConstraints = new SharedAccessAccountPolicy { SharedAccessExpiryTime = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.AddYears(1), Permissions = SharedAccessAccountPermissions.Add | SharedAccessAccountPermissions.Create | SharedAccessAccountPermissions.Delete | SharedAccessAccountPermissions.ProcessMessages | SharedAccessAccountPermissions.Read | SharedAccessAccountPermissions.Write }; var token = storageAccount.GetSharedAccessSignature(sasConstraints); // create job var schedulerClient = new SchedulerClient(details.ResourceGroup, "RunBackupJob", credentials); var jobAction = new JobAction() { Type = JobActionType.StorageQueue, QueueMessage = new JobQueueMessage { Message = details.PairName, QueueName = "get-containers", SasToken = sasConstraints.ToString(), StorageAccountName = "queuefunction" } }; var jobRecurrence = new JobRecurrence() { Frequency = JobRecurrenceFrequency.Hour, Interval = 24 }; var jobCreateOrUpdateParameters = new JobCreateOrUpdateParameters() { Action = jobAction, Recurrence = jobRecurrence }; var jobCreateResponse = schedulerClient.Jobs.CreateOrUpdate(details.ResourceGroup, jobCreateOrUpdateParameters); }