A revival of Azure Automation

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Azure Automation is repositioning as a process-automation service with live support for PowerShell 7.1 and 7.2 runtimes, hybrid runbook workers (Arc/on‑prem and Azure VMs), and a VS Code extension for source control, but source sync is one‑way (repo → cloud only). Managed identities now replace Run As accounts for cloud jobs (managed identities replace Run As), yet AZ module updates are flaky — portal shows AZ 8.x while gallery hosts 9.6 and installs can fail (AZ module update fails to fetch 9.6). Demos show containers/nanoserver sandboxes, faster startup, and Linux module-permissions pitfalls.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:36AZURE SERVICES FOR AUTOMATION
3. 7:35WHAT IS AZURE AUTOMATION?
4. 13:29SUPPORT FOR AZ MODULES BY DEFAULT
5. 20:39PREVIEW SUPPORT FOR POWERSHELL 7.1 / 7.2
6. 30:39MANAGED IDENTITY FOR AZURE AUTOMATION
7. 44:07HYBRID WORKER EXTENSION

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