If you are an old hand at Microsoft SQL Server, you have probably used the SQL Server Agent (i.e., SQL Agent) service and MSDB database for the last 20 years. With a humble and largely unchanged ...

The cloud and automation go hand in hand. Use Azure Automation and runbooks to deploy and manage Azure infrastructure and platform services.

System Center 2012 Service Management Automation handles runbooks the same as Azure Automation, according to Microsoft's "Runbooks Concepts" description.

Microsoft today released a 'preview' of a new Automation feature for managing Microsoft Azure workloads.

To find them, go to the Azure portal, select Automation Accounts, choose the Automation account we built, select Runbooks, and then Browse Gallery as shown below.