• Azure Admin Access Elevated Privileged Operations with Azure Self-Hosted Pipelines

• Features

  • .Net Core Worker Service
  • Run powershell web requests from Azure yml file
  • Run service as appropriate admin to run elevated commands
  • USE CASE : Remove Appx Package before installation for UI testing

• Quick Publish

cd $proj
dotnet restore
dotnet publish -o $Path

• Install Service

• In elevated terminal!

sc.exe create AzureAdmin binpath= $Path\AzureAdmin.exe
sc.exe start AzureAdmin

• Azure Yaml Task Example

- task: PowerShell@2
  inputs:
    targetType: 'inline'
    script: |  
        $url = "http://localhost:5005/removeallappxpackages"
        $pipeline = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url -Method Get;
        Write-Host "Pipeline = $($pipeline | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 100)"

• Project Goal List
  • Authentication