I had a lot of issues when I created my first one, and after discussing with some folks, they had the same issues. I searched for the best blog posts that I could find on the subject, and the one I LOVED the most was here: Arctic DBA. He broke it down so simply, that I finally created my own pseudo installer and I wanted to share it with all of you. Please, bear in mind, these code snippets may fail at anytime due to changes in Azure.
**IMPORTANT**
These next steps assume the following:
You have created/configured your Azure Automation Account and credential to use to execute this runbook.
Read on for a reasonably short Powershell script and a modified version of Ola Hallengren’s index maintenance procedures.