Automate the installation of the Azure Portal Desktop app

The Azure Portal Desktop application is great. I love it and I use it!
It avoids me having the open the Azure Portal in different browsers and have to deal with in-private windows and "public" windows.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can check out my article (in French) about that desktop app here:
http://espacenuagic.com/2019/05/15/azure-portal-desktop-app/

Why would I want to automate that installation?

If you want to automate the configuration of your dev boxes (for example, if you want to provide a common script to help all you developers to set up their development environment), then you'll certainly look for a way to automate the installation of the Azure Portal desktop application.

Ok... So, how do I do that?

Simple, just use that script:

$url =  'https://portal.azure.com/App/Download?acceptLicense=true'
$outputLocation = $env:USERPROFILE + '\AzurePortalInstaller.exe'

$progresspreference = 'silentlyContinue'
Invoke-WebRequest $url -OutFile $outputLocation
$progressPreference = 'Continue'

& $outputLocation /Q

Basically, all that script does is to download the installation package and runs it in quiet mode.

As a conclusion...

Today, we've learned that we can automate the installation of the Azure portal desktop app. This might be useful if you want to automate the configuration of your dev boxes.

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