AZURE PowerShell – PowerShell CMDLETs for Azure Subscription – Azure Administration

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Greetings for the day!!!

We are discussing an AZURE Subscription. In last couple of articles we discussed

AZURE Subscription – Azure : simplifying concepts – discussing Azure Subscription in detail- helps in preparing Azure certifications and interviews

Azure : creating Azure free account – https://knowledge-junction.in/2023/02/18/azure-creating-azure-free-account/

In this article we will discuss POWERSHELL CMDLETs required for administration of AZURE Subscriptions . Here we are discussing simple CMDLETs and example. This is to start.

Connect-AzAccount

• The Connect-AzAccount cmdlet connects to Azure with an authenticated account for use with cmdlets from the Az PowerShell modules
• It connects to default subscription

• Syntax :

Connect-AzAccount
       [-Environment <String>]
       [-Credential <PSCredential>]
       [-CertificateThumbprint <String>]
       [-ApplicationId <String>]
       [-CertificatePath <String>]
       [-AccessToken <String>]
       [-GraphAccessToken <String>]
       [-FederatedToken <String>]
       [-Tenant <String>]
       [-AccountId <String>]
       [-Subscription <String>]
       [-AuthScope <String>]
       [-ContextName <String>]
       [-SkipContextPopulation]
       [-MaxContextPopulation <Int32>]
       [-UseDeviceAuthentication]
       [-Force]
       [-Scope <ContextModificationScope>]
       [-DefaultProfile <IAzureContextContainer>]
       [-WhatIf]
       [-Confirm]
       [<CommonParameters>]

Get-AzSubscription

• List all subscriptions which current account have permissions
• Returns
  • Subscription Name
  • Subscription Id
  • Home Tenant
  • State

• Syntax:

Get-AzSubscription
   [-SubscriptionId <String>]
   [-TenantId <String>]
   [-AsJob]
   [-DefaultProfile <IAzureContextContainer>]
   [<CommonParameters>]

Get-AzSubscription
   [-SubscriptionName <String>]
   [-TenantId <String>]
   [-AsJob]
   [-DefaultProfile <IAzureContextContainer>]
   [<CommonParameters>]

Get-AzContext

• Gets the Active Directory account, Active Directory tenant, Azure subscription, and the targeted Azure environment

• Syntax:

Get-AzContext
   [-DefaultProfile <IAzureContextContainer>]
   [[-Name] <String>]
   [<CommonParameters>]

Get-AzContext
   [-ListAvailable]
   [-RefreshContextFromTokenCache]
   [-DefaultProfile <IAzureContextContainer>]
   [<CommonParameters>]

Set-AzContext

• Sets the tenant, subscription, and environment for cmdlets to use in the current session
• Syntax

• Example – Since here I have only one subscription – I am copying example from Microsoft documentation

Set-AzContext -Subscription "xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx"

Name    Account             SubscriptionName    Environment         TenantId
----    -------             ----------------    -----------         --------
Work    test@outlook.com    Subscription1       AzureCloud          xxxxxxxx-x...

REFERENCES

• Connect-AzAccount
• Get-AzSubscription
• Get-AzContext
• Set-AzContext

Thanks for reading !!! ENJOY BEAUTIFUL LIFE 🙂