Using the Windows Azure Platform PowerShell cmdlets to configure Windows Azure Diagnostics

The Windows Azure team has created a set of PowerShell cmdlets (the Windows Azure Platform PowerShell cmdlets) that can be used to manage Windows Azure hosted services and storage. These cmdlets primarily wrap the Windows Azure Service Management REST API. However, some of the cmdlets use the Windows Azure Diagnostics API to support the remote configuration of Windows Azure Diagnostics.

The cmdlets provide get and set operations for each of the diagnostics data buffers. They also provide operations to request and end an on-demand transfer.

In this recipe, we will learn how to use the Windows Azure Platform PowerShell cmdlets to configure Windows Azure Diagnostics.

Getting ready

If necessary, we can download PowerShell 2 from the Microsoft download center at the following URL:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11829

We need to download and install the Windows Azure Platform PowerShell...