How to connect to your azure subscription account from powershell

By | October 27, 2015

Please see the article on how to install powershell on a azure virtual machine as a prerequisite to this article.

This short article will demonstrate how to connect to your azure subscription from powershell.

1. Type command Get-AzurePublshSettingsFile. This will retrieve the azure subscription with which you are currently logged in.

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2. Sign In with your azure credentials

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8. A settings file will download to the virtual machine.

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9. Type command Import-AzurePublishSettingsFile to import the file that was just download

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10. On the next input provide the full path to settings file that was downloaded.

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11.Type command Get-AzureSubscription

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After this command you will be connected to your azure subscription via powershell.

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