With the Azure Tool kit being updated last week we got a couple of cmdlets for Azure Automation, so now we are able to start, stop get jobs and so on from our runbooks in Azure Automation from on-premises.

Here are the new cmdlets:

To download the updated powershell module go here: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/

For reference on the new cmdlets, go here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn690262.aspx