If you have a concern about how you could use external PowerShell Modules or Packages inside of you Azure Function App written in PowerShell language then you could read this blog post where I want to show you my solution for that.

First of all you have to know that if you want to write Azure Function with PowerShell language support, then you have to use Function App with Runtime version 1.0 – so you couldn’t use latest runtime version 2.0 because there is no support for PowerShell language.

But why use PowerShell in Azure Function App? Let’s imagine scenario that we want to connect to Skype For Business Online API to which you could connect only from PowerShell.

But in that case we have to import specific PowerShell Module or Package into Function App in Azure.
You cannot simply call Import-Module SkypeOnlineConnector like on your local machine where you have previously installed SkypeOnlineConnector from that site. But you have to copy all files from that locally installed package into specific folder inside of your Function App in Azure.

So let’s take a look how you could do that.

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