Category: Powershell

Using Azure Functions to Post to Slack from Multiple Sources – Part 1

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Today, I’m starting a new short series demonstrating how we can easily integrate multiple internal and external systems to bring data into Slack using a single Azure function.

The idea here is to define a single simple web based API using the capabilities of Azure Functions in order to provide a company standard format for pushing notifications into Slack from multiple sources.

For my part I’m going to show how to setup the Azure Function, code the integration into Slack, how to trigger the function, and then how to trigger and test that Azure function. In subsequent posts we’ll show how to trigger it from other related systems.

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SCSM + Cireson Portal API + Slack = Better Together, Part 2

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Assuming that you’ve read part 1, you know we are now going to look at how to get data out of SCSM and into Slack without having to be proactive about it. Rather than having to reach into SCSM and get the data, we are going to look at how SCSM can alert us in Slack to changes that are occurring from within.

This is actually quite easy, and we will look at more complicated and comprehensive scenarios for this in the future, but I want to touch on something just about anyone with a little PS knowledge could emulate.

With that in mind our example today will use nothing more than powershell and our own little custom module.

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Lost Single Item Array in Powershell Array to JSON Conversion

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I thought I would throw this out there for anyone possibly running into this issue. Basically, when converting a PSObject to JSON in Powershell, I had an array that only had one value in some cases. When this happened the conversion would unpack the array and I would get the @{} at the root level of the property instead of an array:

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