The Azure PowerShell cmdlets support two authentication
techniques: AAD (Azure Active Directory) and self-signed X.509 certificates.
AAD authentication can be used for both the classic Azure Service Management
(ASM) mode and the new Azure Resource Manager (ARM) mode of the Azure.
Certificate authentication can be used only for ASM mode.
Here we will using AAD to get
into our Azure subscription. For this to work you should be an
Administrator or Co-administrator for relevant subscription. More info related to
Azure Access rights can be found here http://rajeshkamalakshan.blogspot.in/2017/08/managing-azure-subscriptions-and-access.html
.
If you don’t have AAD module installed then the same can be
installed as below
In Powershell Run
Install-Module
AzureAD
Once the above module is installed run the below command in power
shell. This cmdlet prompts you for the login credentials for your Azure
account. After logging in, it downloads your account settings so they are
available to Azure PowerShell.
Add-AzureAccount
Once logged in successfully , if
necessary, the following Azure cmdlets can be used to select the desired
subscription
Get-AzureSubscription
Select-AzureSubscription
-SubscriptionName "SomeSubscription"
There are other ways to login to Azure subscription
by using Login-AzureRmAccount. This will work only for “Azure Resource Manager”(ARM).but
the above approach works for both ASM and ARM
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