Gists for a blog post about Windows Azure Powershell command-line tool

CreateANewWebsite.ps1

# This command retreive the list of all available locations for a website
# Get-AzureWebsiteLocation

# Instanciate a new Website in the choosen Location
$website = New-AzureWebsite -Location "West Europe" -Name "MyNewShinyWebsite"

CreateSQLDatabase.ps1

$serverLogin = "MCKLMT" 
$serverPassword = "" 

# Create a new server
$server = New-AzureSqlDatabaseServer -AdministratorLogin $serverLogin `
                                     -AdministratorLoginPassword $serverPassword `
                                     -Location "North Europe"

# Get your public Internet IP Address
$externalIP = (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString("http://ipinfo.io/ip")

# Open the firewall for this specific IP
$server | New-AzureSqlDatabaseServerFirewallRule -RuleName "Open Firewall" `
                                                 -StartIPAddress $externalIP `
                                                 -EndIPAddress $externalIP

#Create a new database with Web Edition and 1 GB
$server | New-AzureSqlDatabase -DatabaseName "Northwind" -Edition Web -MaxSizeGB 1

SelectSubscription.ps1

Import-Module Azure

# Select this subscription as current for the current powershell session
Select-AzureSubscription -Current -SubscriptionName "Name of the subscription for this session"

# Or Instead
# Select this subscription as default for all sessions of this user
# Select-AzureSubscription -Default -SubscriptionName "Name of the subscription for this session"

StopAllVMs.ps1

# Filter the list by the name of one Cloud Service
Get-AzureVM -ServiceName "Name of the Cloud Service" `
| Where-Object {$_.Status -like "Ready*"} `
| ForEach-Object
{
    # The "Force" switch allows the deallocation of last VM in a deployment.
    Stop-AzureVM -ServiceName $_.ServiceName -Name $_.Name -Force
}

TheNewWay.ps1

Import-Module Azure

# Open a popup to login to the account and save subscriptions in one line :)
Add-AzureAccount

TheOldWay.ps1

Import-Module Azure

# Open a link to download the *.publishsettings
Get-AzurePublishSettingsFile

# Import the file. Change the path to the file :)
Import-AzurePublishSettingsFile -PublishSettingsFile "C:\MySavedPublishSettingsFile.publishsettings"