How to remove Azure web job via Azure RM PowerShell

Azure web jobs allow to run your code by scheduler. Schedule is configured via CRON expression. This is convinient tool to perform repeated actions. Sometimes we need to remove them via PowerShell in automation process. In this article I will show how to remove Azure web job using Azure RM PowerShell cmdlets.

If you will try to google this topic you will most probably find Remove-AzureWebsiteJob cmdlet. The problem however is that this cmdlet is used for classic resources and you will most probably have problems using it (e.g. because of error Select-AzureSubscription -Default). So we need some other way to remove Azure web jobs – preferably by using Azure RM cmdlets. Fortunately it is possible – we may remove web job by using another cmdlet Remove-AzureRmResource. Here is syntax for removing triggered web job:

$resourceName = $appServiceName + "/" + $webJobName
Remove-AzureRmResource -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -ResourceName $resourceName -ResourceType microsoft.web/sites/triggeredwebjobs

The important thing to note here is how ResourceName param is specified for web job (app service name/web job name) and ResourceType which is set to microsoft.web/sites/triggeredwebjobs. If you need to delete continuous web job you need to use microsoft.web/sites/continuouswebjobs resourceType.

Using this command you will be able to delete Azure web jobs via Azure RM PowerShell.