AzureScout

2.2.0

AzureScout — discover, inventory, and assess everything in your Azure environment. Inventories Azure resources, Entra ID, and identity objects (Excel, JSON, Markdown, AsciiDoc), and runs a read-only CAF/WAF landing-zone assessment: a declarative rule engine scores the tenant against Cloud Adoption Framework design areas and Well-Architected pillars, producing Power BI
AzureScout — discover, inventory, and assess everything in your Azure environment. Inventories Azure resources, Entra ID, and identity objects (Excel, JSON, Markdown, AsciiDoc), and runs a read-only CAF/WAF landing-zone assessment: a declarative rule engine scores the tenant against Cloud Adoption Framework design areas and Well-Architected pillars, producing Power BI, self-contained HTML, executive PowerPoint, and JSON/Excel evidence. See everything. Own your cloud. (Assessment features require PowerShell 7.)
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Minimum PowerShell version

5.1

Installation Options

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Install-Module -Name AzureScout

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Install-PSResource -Name AzureScout

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Owners

Copyright

(c) 2026 Hybrid Cloud Solutions. All rights reserved.

Package Details

Author(s)

  • Kristopher Turner

Tags

Azure AzureScout Discovery Inventory Assessment CAF WAF WellArchitected CloudAdoptionFramework LandingZone Governance AZSC EntraID Resources ARM Graph Reporting Excel PowerBI

Functions

Start-AZSCAdvisoryJob Start-AZSCPolicyJob Start-AZSCSecCenterJob Start-AZSCSubscriptionJob Wait-AZSCJob Build-AZSCDiagramSubnet Set-AZSCDiagramFile Start-AZSCDiagramJob Start-AZSCDiagramNetwork Start-AZSCDiagramOrganization Start-AZSCDiagramSubscription Start-AZSCDrawIODiagram Invoke-AzureScout Test-AZSCPermissions Invoke-ScoutAssessment Test-ScoutPermission Invoke-ScoutPipeline Get-ScoutInventoryDrift Get-ScoutCostAnomaly Get-ScoutIacGap Import-ScoutConfig Export-ScoutConfig

PSEditions

Desktop Core

Dependencies

This module has no dependencies.

Release Notes

v2.2.0 — Report tiers, deeper analytics, hardened collectors. New report tiers: Word (.docx, Export-Word), an offline ECharts HTML dashboard (Export-EChartsDashboard), a dependency-free PDF (Export-Pdf), and a resources-only JSON evidence export (Export-JsonEvidence) -- all wired into Export-Report and Invoke-ScoutAssessment -OutputFormat. Excel gains visual dashboard tabs with pivot charts; the React report gains richer interactive visuals (topology, management-group hierarchy, KPI cards, a Governance section, drill-downs, search/filter, badges, tooltips) plus report.pbit generation. New offline analysis functions: Get-ScoutInventoryDrift (cross-run resource drift), Get-ScoutCostAnomaly (cost outlier detection), and Get-ScoutIacGap (Bicep/ARM-JSON coverage gaps) -- none of these call Azure. Collect layer gains IoT deep coverage (Device Provisioning Service + Digital Twins), tag-value aggregation, deeper Database/Analytics/IoT rule automation, and collector/pipeline resilience (per-subscription continue-on-error, management-group hints, an empty-data guard, and a HadErrors summary flag) plus live Write-ScoutProgress output. New Import-ScoutConfig/Export-ScoutConfig let you save and reload an assessment config (benchmark, rule patterns, rule overrides) as JSON, with a safe fallback to the built-in default. Also: a CI pipeline (ci.yml), a real (non-simulated) azure-inventory workflow, five v1 inventory bug fixes, draw.io merge/StrictMode repairs, and documented Entra Graph delegated scopes. v2.1.0 — Platform hardening. Native governance collector (Import-Governance) replaces the Azure Governance Visualizer dependency: management-group, policy-assignment, role-assignment, budget, and resource-lock data now come from Azure Resource Graph + ARM REST directly, so the ALZ benchmark needs only ARM Reader at the management-group root (no Microsoft Graph app permissions by default). New unattended one-command pipeline (Invoke-ScoutPipeline) for CI/cron with a machine-readable run summary and exit codes. New self-contained interactive React HTML report (-OutputFormat React) plus cross-run drift tracking (New/Resolved/Regressed deltas across runs). v2.0.1 — Point the Project Site link at the documentation site (thisismydemo.cloud/azure-scout). v2.0.0 — CAF/WAF Assessment Platform (major). Adds a read-only, three-layer assessment engine (collect.json -> findings.json -> report) on top of the v1 inventory tool: a declarative CAF/WAF rule engine (139 rules across 8 CAF design areas + 5 WAF pillars, dual scoring, prioritized gaps), an Azure Resource Graph collect layer, AzGovViz/Advisor/ARG ingest, an ALZ benchmark diff, and tiered reporting (Power BI, self-contained HTML, executive PowerPoint via the OpenXML SDK, plus Excel + JSON evidence). Per-domain analytics: every discovery category is an independently runnable, tagged assessment via Invoke-ScoutAssessment -Assessment <Category>. Runtime-verified offline (Pester) and against a live tenant. BREAKING: introduces the findings.json output contract and demotes Excel-first output to an evidence tier. Assessment features require PowerShell 7. Full inventory functionality from v1.0.0 is unchanged. See CHANGELOG.md for details.

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Version History

Version Downloads Last updated
2.2.0 (current version) 4 7/24/2026
2.1.0 4 7/24/2026
2.0.1 5 7/23/2026
2.0.0 3 7/23/2026
1.0.0 47 2/25/2026