In this Azure PowerShell article, we will discuss how to fix the error, ” The term ‘Rename-AzContex’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet” which I got while executing the Rename-AzContex PowerShell command for one of the requirements.
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The term ‘Rename-AzContex’ is not recognized
Recently, while working on one of the requirements, I was trying to execute the Rename-AzContex PowerShell command and I got this error, the complete error message is as below.
Rename-AzContex : The term 'Rename-AzContex' 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
+ Rename-AzContex
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Rename-AzContex:String) [], CommandNot
FoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
You can see the same error in the below screenshot.

Now, let’s see how did I fix this error.
The term ‘Rename-AzContex’ is not recognized [Solution]
To solve this error, you need to execute the below PowerShell cmdlet.
Install-Module Az -AllowClobber
You can see it here, Click on the Yes to All button and you are done.

Now, after the above step, you can able to see, I can able to execute the below PowerShell command successfully without any issues.

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Wrapping Up
In this Azure PowerShell article, we discussed how to fix the error “The term ‘Rename-AzContex’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet”. Thanks for reading this article !!!