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Problem:  Scheduling worker role can become a big pain when it comes to long running background tasks. This is because there are no scheduling options available for worker role (as on date of publishing this article) although there are some alternatives to sleep worker role for a while. We needed to automate the process re-executing worker role based on schedule typically every day interval.  We choose Webjobs as it has best scheduling options to execute back ground jobs. Although, we can interact with azure cloud management using azure management libraries and management certificate, it became hard to encrypt the sensitive information such as certificate string, subscription id etc,. Solution: We found Automation RunBooks are the way to go to solve this problem. As it has out-of the-box support to write powershell workflows to manage azure. Nice thing about Runbooks is that it has good scheduling options so that we can schedule workflow as a recurring event.  Also, all thi