The term ‘Get-AzHost’ is not recognized

In this Azure PowerShell article, we will discuss how to fix the error The term ‘Get-AzHost’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet that I got while running the Get-AzHost PowerShell command.

The term ‘Get-AzHost’ is not recognized

Recently, I was trying to execute the ‘Get-AzHost’ PowerShell Command and I got this error. The complete error message was as below

Get-AzHost : The term ‘Get-AzHost’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the
name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1

• Get-AzHost
• ~~
  • CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Get-AzHost:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

You can see the below screenshot for your reference.

The term ‘Get-AzHost’ is not recognized [Solved]

I have followed the below steps to fix this error and successfully ran the Get-AzHost PowerShell command.

1. Run the PowerShell ISE with Run as Administrator mode.
2. Execute the below Azure PowerShell command to install the Az module.

Install-Module -Name Az -Repository PSGallery -Force

3. After the Successful installation of the Az module, I tried running the Get-AzHost PowerShell module but I got the below error.

“The ‘Get-AzHost’ command was found in the module ‘Az. Compute’, but the module could not be loaded.” check out the below screenshot.

To fix this issue, I ran the PowerShell command below

Import-Module Az.Compute
Get-AzHost

After running, the above Command, I got the Running scripts is disabled on this system error which I fixed by following this article.

After fixing the above error, I can execute the below PowerShell command Successfully without any issues and get the Expected output. Check out the below screenshot for your reference.

Import-Module Az.Compute
Get-AzHost

Conclusion

In this Azure PowerShell article, We discussed how to fix the error The term ‘Get-AzHost’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet which I got while running the Get-AzHost PowerShell command. Thanks for reading this article !!!

Rajkishore

I am Rajkishore, and I am a Microsoft Certified IT Consultant. I have over 14 years of experience in Microsoft Azure and AWS, with good experience in Azure Functions, Storage, Virtual Machines, Logic Apps, PowerShell Commands, CLI Commands, Machine Learning, AI, Azure Cognitive Services, DevOps, etc. Not only that, I do have good real-time experience in designing and developing cloud-native data integrations on Azure or AWS, etc. I hope you will learn from these practical Azure tutorials. Read more.