I wanted to deploy Server 10 VM joined to my domain and leveraged Azure Automation to do that. So now when I need a new VM, just have to invoke the Runbook and a domain joined new server is ready in well over 10 minutes.

I have a blog post explaining how this works here :

http://www.dexterposh.com/2014/10/azure-automation-deploy-domain-join-vm.html

I have changed the parameter $AzureConnectionString to $AzureSubscriptionName based on Joe Levy's feedback on the gist.

[UPDATE] : Server 2016 TP 3 was released yesterday and I have updated the Script to expose few more parameters e.g. DomainCredName , DomainName etc.

Snippet of the Workflow parameters.

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