Azure Automation Update Management Boolean Value is Broken

Leo D'Arcy 1

Within Azure Automation Update Management I have a script which requires a boolean value.

As you can see this was working on the 14/05/2020

However when attempting to rerun the same script with no changes this morning I was faced with failure. It appears that a change has been made to wrap all variables as strings which breaks the Boolean input.

Is this a supported senario?

bharathn-msft 5,096 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-06-09T07:01:56.537+00:00

@LeoDArcy-1795 - Apologies for delayed response on this, i have reached out to our internal team to better understand this issue. Will keep you updated as i get further information. Thank you
bharathn-msft 5,096 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-06-17T07:32:25.07+00:00
@LeoDArcy-1795 - Can you please help confirm when the script was working were you using it as a pre-script in SUC or was just testing by running it elsewhere and it only breaks when added as a pre-script to SUC?

Alternatively, Can you please try to create script which accepts string as input as work around and see if it works.

For Example:

Param( [Parameter(Mandatory=$false,HelpMessage="Enter the value of what if ")] [String]$WhatIf = "False" ) if($WhatIf -eq "True"){ $NewWhatIf = $True }else{ $NewWhatIf = $False } Write-Output $NewWhatIf.GetType() Write-Output $NewWhatIf

Hope this information helps, please review and circle back if you have further issues.
bharathn-msft 5,096 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-06-19T01:37:51.827+00:00

@Leo D'Arcy - Checking to see if you had a chance to look into the above work around and have any further queries. Thank you

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bharathn-msft 5,096 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-06-23T17:09:33.607+00:00
@Leo D'Arcy - Create script which accepts string as input as work around and see if it works.

For Example:

Param( [Parameter(Mandatory=$false,HelpMessage="Enter the value of what if ")] [String]$WhatIf = "False" ) if($WhatIf -eq "True"){ $NewWhatIf = $True }else{ $NewWhatIf = $False } Write-Output $NewWhatIf.GetType() Write-Output $NewWhatIf

Hope this information helps, please revert back if you have any further queries. Thank you.
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