Did you know you can use Azure to streamline and automate many manual business processes and activities? Automation can help you reduce the overall operational expenses, resulting in increased performance. In this course, Cloud evangelist, architect, and author Neeraj Kumar shows you how. First, Neeraj explains the capabilities and core features of Azure Automation. Next, he dives into cross-service automation, outlining the process flow and presenting several demos. Neeraj covers update management with Azure Automation, then shows you how to configure the Desired State Configuration (DSC). He outlines the benefits that you can achieve by using the Automation Desired State Configuration and walks you through deployment models and onboarding machines for Automation DSC management. Neeraj concludes with a discussion of the core Azure Automation resources and how you can put them to use.