Check out the list of a few important Azure PowerShell Commands with examples and Video tutorials. Along with that, check out the Lists of real-time Azure PowerShell errors and their solutions with video tutorials that I got while working with these PowerShell commands.
| Name | Description |
| Get-AzureADDevice | Can help you to retrieve the details of the lists of devices from your Azure AD. |
| New-AzureADDevice | Helps you to create a brand new device in your Azure Active Directory. |
| Set-AzureADDevice | Updates the details of your Azure AD device. |
| Remove-AzureADDevice | Remove an Azure AD device. |
| Get-AzureADPolicy | Retrieve the details of your Azure AD Policy. |
| New-AzureADPolicy | Create a brand new Azure AD Policy using this PowerShell command. |
| Set-AzureADPolicy | Update your Azure AD Policy. |
| Remove-AzureADPolicy | Delete any unwanted Azure AD policy using this PowerShell command. |
| Get-AzureADDirectoryRole | Retrieve the details of a directory role from your Azure Active Directory using this command. |
| Update-AzADUser | Update the entities in the Azure Active Directory users. |
| Get-AzureADObjectByObjectId | This command will retrieve the details of a directory role from your Azure Active Directory. |
| Disconnect-AzureAD | Helps you to disconnect your current session from your Azure Active Directory tenant. |
| Connect-AzureAD | Helps you to use Azure AD cmdlet requests by connecting with an authenticated account. |
| Get-AzureADUserMembership | Use this command to get the specified user membership in the Azure AD. |
| Get-AzureADUser | Helps you to get user details from your Azure Active Directory. |
| Get-AzADUser | Can get you the list of AD users. |
| Remove-AzADGroup | Use this command to remove the entity from the Azure AD groups. |
| Get-AzADApplication | Helps get the objects’ details based on the specified Object IDs. |
| New-AzADApplication | Use the New-AzADApplication PowerShell cmdlet to add the new entity to your applications. |
| Get-AzADGroup | Use this command to get the lists of Azure Active Directory Groups. |
| Get-AzSecuritySetting | It will get you the security settings in the Azure Security Center. |
| Get-AzTenant | Get the list of entities from the applications. |
| New-AzTag | It helps you quickly create a predefined Azure tag. |
| Get-AzTag | Can help you to retrieve the lists of predefined Azure tags from your subscription. |
| Add-AzRouteConfig | Use this command to add a route to a specified Azure route table. |
| Get-AzRouteTable | This can help you to retrieve the route tables under a Resource Group. |
| Get-AzStorageContainer | Helps you to retrieve the lists of Azure storage containers. |
| Remove-AzStorageContainer | Helps you to remove the storage container that you have specified with this command. |
| New-AzStorageContext | Get the lists of storage queues associated with the specified storage account. |
| Get-AzADServicePrincipal | Use this command to get the entities from the service principals. |
| New-AzADSpCredential | It helps you to add a credential to an existing service principal. |
| Update-AzConfig | Update the configs of your Azure PowerShell using this command. |
| Uninstall-AzureRm | Helps you to uninstall or remove all the AzureRm modules from your machine |
| Set-AzDefault | Helps you to create an Azure Storage context quickly. |
| Save-AzContext | Can help you to save the Az context of your current Azure session into a specified location or path. |
| Get-AzEnvironment | Retrieve the endpoints and the metadata for the instance of the Azure services. |
| Get-AzProviderFeature | Use this command to add edit or set the default to your current Azure Context. |
| Get-AzPolicyAssignment | Retrieve the policy assignments. |
| Clear-AzDefault | Helps to clear the current context default values set by the user. |
| Clear-AzConfig | Helps you to retrieve the feature details like Feature name, Registration State, Provider name, etc. in a second. |
| New-AzManagementGroup | Clear all the configuration values set by the user using this command. |
| Set-AzResourceGroup | Create a management group in seconds using this command. |
| Remove-AzResource | Removes the specified Azure resource. |
| New-AzRoleAssignment | Helps you to assign an RBAC role to a specific principal for a specified scope. |
| Remove-AzResourceLock | Removes a lock from an Azure resource. |
| New-AzResource | Modify your Azure resource group in seconds. |
| Export-AzResourceGroup | Save your resource group as a template with a JSON file format. |
| Get-AzRoleDefinition | Retrieve the list of Azure RBAC roles that are available that you can assign. |
| Get-AzRoleAssignment | Quickly create an Azure resource like a website or an Azure SQL database/server in a resource group. |
| Get-AzResourceProvider | Quickly get the Azure resource provider. |
| Get-AzResourceLock | Retrieve the Azure resource locks. |
| Get-AzResource | Get a list of all the Azure resources. |
| Get-AzConfig | Retrieve the lists of all the configs of your Azure PowerShell. |
| Get-AzContext | Retrieve the metadata details. |
| Add-AzureAccount | Add the Azure account to the Windows PowerShell. |
| Set-AzContext | It helps you set the subscription, tenant, and environments for different PowerShell commands for your current PowerShell session. |
| connect-AzAccount | It helps you help you connect to Azure with one particular authenticated account. |
| Disconnect-AzAccount | Disconnect an Azure account that you are connected to currently. |
| Clear-AzContext | Delete/clear all the Azure credentials, subscription and account details, etc. |
| Get-AzLocation | Retrieve the location details and their supported resource providers. |
| Get-AzDeployment | Retrieve the deployment details under the current subscription. |
| Start-ADSyncSyncCycle | Helps to force Sync Azure AD Connect or to run a sync cycle manually. |
| Get-AzureADMSGroup | Get the details of the Azure AD groups via the MS Graph. |
| Set-AzureADMSGroup | Modify different properties of the Azure AD group. |
| Get-AzureADServicePrincipal | Retrieve the list of service principals from your Azure Active Directory. |
| Get-AzureADMSDeletedDirectoryObject | Get the soft deleted AD object from the Azure Active Directory. |
| Get-AzSubscription | Retrieve the List of Azure Subscriptions. |
| Get-azurermsubscription | Get the subscription details that the current account can access. |
| Connect-AzureRMAccount | Helps to connect to the authenticated account for using the Azure RM cmdlets. |
| Select-AzureSubscription | Can get you the lists of all the role assignments under your subscription or a specific scope. |
| New-AzureADMSInvitation | Can help you to invite an external user to your Azure Active directory. |
| Connect-msolservice | Can help you to initiate a connection to your Azure Active Directory. |
| Get-AzMetric | Can help you to retrieve the metric values of an Azure resource. |
| Get-AzSqlDatabase | Help you to set and clear your current and default Azure subscriptions. |
| Get-AzSqlServer | Help you retrieve the Azure SQL database lists from your Azure SQL Database Server. |
| Get-AzStorageTable | Can help you to create a storage table quickly. |
| Set-AzStorageAccount | Use this Azure PowerShell command to modify or update your Azure Storage account. |
| Get-AzActivityLog | Can help you to get the lists of available storage tables associated with the specified Storage account. |
| Get-AzADGroupMember | Help you retrieve the Activity Log event lists from your Azure Subscription. |
| New-AzADGroup | Can help you to create a new Azure AD group. |
| New-AzADUser | Can help you to create a new Azure AD user. |
| Add-AzADGroupMember | Helps you to add members to an Azure AD group. |
| Get-AzADAppCredential | Help you to list the members from an Azure AD group. |
| Start-AzVM | It helps to start your Azure VM. |
| Get-AzWebApp | It helps you to retrieve information about your Azure Web App. |
| Set-AzWebApp | It can help you modify your Azure Web App. |
| Get-AzApplicationInsights | It helps you to return the Application Insights components. |
| Get-AzAppServicePlan | It helps to retrieve an Azure App Service plan in the resource group that you have specified. |
| Get-Aduser | It helps you quickly find the AD users in your domain. |
| Get-AzVirtualNetwork | It helps you helps to retrieve the lists of virtual networks under a resource group. |
| Get-AzVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig | It helps you to retrieve the details of a subnet inside a Virtual network. |
| New-AzAppServicePlan | It helps you retrieve the details of a subnet inside a virtual network. |
| Get-AzKeyVaultSecret | It can help you quickly create an App service plan for a specific region. |
| Get-AzDisk | It helps you to retrieve the properties of a Managed disk. |
| Name | Description |
| Azure Powershell change subscription | Learn how the Select-AZSubscription command can be used to change the Azure subscription. |
| How to get tenant id in Azure using PowerShell | Check out how to get tenant id in Azure using PowerShell. |
| Azure PowerShell List Resource Groups | Learn how to list Resource Groups using the PowerShell command Get-AzResourceGroup. |
Azure PowerShell Errors
| Name | Description |
| The term ‘connect-azaccount’ is not recognized | Check out how to fix the error “The term ‘connect-azaccount’ is not recognized”.” |
| The term ‘New-AzureStorageContext’ is not recognized error | Learn, how to fix the error “new-azurestoragecontext is not recognized”. |
| No match was found for the specified search criteria and module name ‘MSOnline’ | Learn to fix the error “No match was found for the specified search criteria and module name ‘MSOnline’”. |
| Login-AzureRmAccount is not recognized | Check out how to fix the error “the term login-azurermaccount is not recognized”. |
| The term ‘Get-AzHost’ is not recognized | Check out the steps to fix the error “Get-AzHost is not recognized”. |
| Connect-Msolservice is not recognized | Learn to fix the error “Connect-Msolservice is not recognized”. |
| Running scripts is disabled on this system | Learn how to fix the error “Running scripts is disabled on this system”. |
| Method ‘get_serializationsettings’ in type ‘microsoft.azure.management | Learn how to fix the error “Method ‘get_serializationsettings’ in type ‘microsoft.azure.management” |
| The Term ‘Connect-AzureRmAccount’ is Not Recognized | Learn how to fix the error “The Term ‘Connect-AzureRmAccount’ is Not Recognized”. |
| The term ‘Select-AzureSubscription’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet | Learn how to fix the error “The term ‘Select-AzureSubscription’ is not recognized”. |
| The term ‘connect-azuread’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet | Learn how to fix the error “connect-azuread is not recognized”. |
| Set-AzContext : Please provide a valid tenant or a valid subscription. | Check out how to fix the error “please provide a valid tenant or a valid subscription.” |
| The ‘Set-AzContext’ command was found in the module ‘Az.Accounts’ but the module could not be loaded. | Learn how to fix the error “The ‘Set-AzContext’ command was found in the module ‘Az.Accounts’”. |
| The specified module ‘ActiveDirectory’ was not loaded | Learn how to fix the error “The specified module ‘ActiveDirectory’ was not loaded”. |
| The specified module ‘ADSync’ was not loaded because no valid module file was found in any module directory error | Learn how to fix the error “The specified module ‘ADSync’ was not loaded”. |
| The term ‘get-aduser’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet in Windows 10 PowerShell | Check out how to fix the error “the term ‘get-aduser’ is not recognized as the name”. |
| New-AzResourceGroup: A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument | Learn how to fix the error “a positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument”. |
| The term ‘Get-AzQuota’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet | Check out how to fix the error “The term ‘Get-AzQuota’ is not recognized”. |
| Get-AzStorageFile: Can not find your Azure storage credential | Learn to fix the error “can not find your azure storage credential”. |
| Install-packageprovider no match was found for the specified search criteria for the provider ‘nuget’ | Check out how to fix the error “no match was found for the specified search criteria for the provider ‘nuget’”. |
| Get-AzStorageBlob: Could not get the storage context | Learn how to fix the error “could not get the storage context”. |
| Unable to cast object of type ‘Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject’to type ‘Microsoft.Azure.Management.ManagementGroups.Models.ManagementGroup’ | Learn how to fix the error “unable to cast object of type”. |
| The ‘Set-AzSqlDatabase’ command was found in the module ‘Az.Sql’ | Learn how to fix the error “The Set-AzSqlDatabase command was found”. |
| The ‘Get-AzResourceGroup’ command was found in the module ‘Az.Resources’ | Learn how to fix the error “Set-AzSqlDatabase command was found”. |
| The term ‘Get-VM’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet | Learn how to fix the error “get-vm is not recognized”. |
| The term ‘Get-ADSyncScheduler’ is not recognized | Learn how to fix the error “get-adsyncscheduler is not recognized”. |
| The Specified Module ‘AzureRM’ Was Not Loaded | Learn how to fix the error “AzureRM Was Not Loaded”. |
| The term ‘get-azuresubscription’ is not recognized | Check out how to fix the error “get-azuresubscription is not recognized”. |
| Get-AzVm : ‘this.Client.SubscriptionId’ cannot be null | Learn how to fix the error “this.Client.SubscriptionId cannot be null”. |
| The term ‘Get-AzTableRow’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet | Learn how to fix the error “The term Get-AzTableRow is not recognized”. |
| No match was found for the specified search criteria and module names ‘AzTable’ | Learn how to fix the error “No match was found for the specified search criteria and module names ‘AzTable’” |
| No match was found for the specified search criteria and module name ‘Az’ | Check out how to fix the error “No match was found for the specified search criteria and module name ‘Az’”. |
| The term ‘Start-ADSyncSyncCycle’ is not recognized error | Learn how to fix the error “the term ‘start-adsyncsynccycle’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet,”. |
| The following commands are already available on this system | Learn how to fix the error “the following commands are already available on this system”. |
| The term ‘Get-AzureAccount’ is not recognized error | Check out the error “The term Get-AzureAccount is not recognized”. |
| Method ‘get_SerializationSettings’ error when Login-AzureRMAccount | Learn how to fix the error “Method ‘get_SerializationSettings’ error when Login-AzureRMAccount”. |
| The term ‘New-AzResourceGroup’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet | Check out the error “The term ‘New-AzResourceGroup’ is not recognized”. |
| New-AzureRmResourceGroup: ‘this.Client.SubscriptionId’ cannot be null | Learn how to fix the error “New-AzureRmResourceGroup: ‘this.Client.SubscriptionId’ cannot be null”. |
| The term ‘Get-AzureRmVM’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet | Check out how to fix the error “The term ‘Get-AzureRmVM’ is not recognized”. |
| The term ‘Get-AzureADDirectorySettingTemplate’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet | Learn how to fix error “Get-AzureADDirectorySettingTemplate is not recognized”. |
| The term ‘get-azureadgroup’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet | Learn how to fix the error “The term get-azureadgroup is not recognized”. |
| No match was found for the specified search criteria and module name ‘AzureAD’ | Learn how to fix the error “No match was found for the specified search criteria and module name ‘AzureAD’”. |
| The ‘New-AzResourceGroup’ command was found in the module ‘Az.Resources’ | Learn how to fix the error “The ‘New-AzResourceGroup’ command was found”. |
| Unable to find package providers (NuGet) | Check out how to fix the error “Unable to find package providers (NuGet)”. |
| Administrator rights are required to install modules | Learn to fix the error “Administrator rights are required to install modules”. |
| Get-AzureADDirectorySetting not recognized | Learn how to fix the error Get-AzureADDirectorySetting is not recognized. |
Conclusion
This article discussed a list of helpful Azure PowerShell Commands with their syntax and usage examples. We also discussed a list of real-time Azure PowerShell Errors and their solutions that I came across while working with these Azure PowerShell Commands.
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