Prerequisites:

• A Windows Client machine on which you have the .NET framework (minimum version .NET 8.0) runtime or SDK installed on your system prior to running AZREZ.

  To install .NET with Powershell, follow the steps in: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/windows#install-with-powershell

To install .NET runtime 8.0.10 via elevated PowerShell:

Start-BitsTransfer -Source "https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/f55ed80e-ba58-4ac8-a2b3-f2227cd628de/6fabf1c613cf9386d14ddbaaca1a5eb8/dotnet-runtime-8.0.10-win-x64.exe" -Destination "$HOME/dotnet-runtime-8.0.10-win-x64.exe"

.\$HOME\dotnet-runtime-8.0.10-win-x64.exe

Getting AZREZ locally

Getting AZREZ locally via the provided PowerShell script:

setup.ps1 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marianleica/azrez/refs/heads/public/setup.ps1

Getting AZREZ ready on Windows Client manually using elevated PowerShell cmdlets:

# Remove the package if it already exists
Remove-Item -Path C:\azrez\ -Recurse
# Download the repo contents to C:\azrez and expand the archive
Start-BitsTransfer -Source "https://github.com/marianleica/azrez/archive/refs/heads/public.zip" -Destination "C:\azrez.zip"
Expand-Archive -Path "C:\azrez.zip" -DestinationPath "C:\" -Force
# Edit the path name and remove the initial compressed file
mv C:\azrez-public C:\azrez\
rmdir C:\azrez.zip
# Add to environment variables
$env:Path += ";C:\azrez\"

Limitations of the current release: v1.05

• The AZREZ tool is supported only for Windows OS on Windows Client versions supported by Microsoft
• The AZREZ tool only works in the following directory path "C:\azrez" with the backend scripts on "C:\azrez\pwshjobs"
• All resources are by default using the 'azrez' resource group and the 'uksouth' Azure region. The job scripts are accessible for whoever wants to use a different resource group name or Azure region, as well as any alternate configurations.
• The command $env:Path += ";C:\azrez\" only sets env variable in the current terminal session. Workaround for permanent variable is to manually add C:\azrez\ to the Path environment variables in Advanced System Settings

Feedback and feature requests

• For any issues or questions about the tool,. please submit a github issue with the details on the repository page.
• For any feature requests or changes, please submit a github issue with the details on the repository page.

Release notes

v1.05