Azure PowerShell Cmdlets

The Connect-AzAccount cmdlet connects to Azure with an authenticated account for use with cmdlets from the Az PowerShell modules.

Connect to Azure with an authenticated account for use with cmdlets from the Az PowerShell modules.

Connect-AzAccount

Use an interactive login to connect to a specific tenant and subscription

Connect-AzAccount -Tenant 'xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx' -SubscriptionId 'yyyy-yyyy-yyyy-yyyy'

Login-AzAccount and Add-AzAccount are the aliases build around the Connect-AzAccount cmdlet

Get subscriptions that the current account can access.

The Get-AzSubscription cmdlet gets the subscription ID, subscription name, and home tenant for subscriptions that the current account can access.

Get all subscriptions in all tenants

PS C:\>Get-AzSubscription

Get all subscriptions for a specific tenant

PS C:\>Get-AzSubscription -TenantId "aaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaa"

Create and output a new Service Principal with password

$sp = NewAzADServicePrincipal -DisplayName "{sp-name}" -Role "{role}"
$sp
$credentials = New-Object pscredential -ArgumentList "temp", $sp.Secret
$credentials.GetNetworkCredential().password

Get information about the Template Spec named 'MyTemplateSpec' within the resource group 'myRG'.

Get-AzTemplateSpec -ResourceGroupName 'myRG' -Name 'MyTemplateSpec'

Note: All of the Template Spec's versions will be present within the ".Versions" property of the return object.

Get-AzTemplateSpec (Az.Resources) | Microsoft Docs

Gets the metadata used to authenticate Azure Resource Manager requests.

The Get-AzContext cmdlet gets the current metadata used to authenticate Azure Resource Manager requests. This cmdlet gets the Active Directory account, Active Directory tenant, Azure subscription, and the targeted Azure environment.

Get-AzContext
   [-DefaultProfile <IAzureContextContainer>]
   [[-Name] <String>]
   [<CommonParameters>]

Example for getting the context of the current session by calling Get-AzContext.

PS C:\> Get-AzContext

Module: Az.Resources

Creates a new Template Spec version with the specified ARM Template content. The content can either come from a raw JSON string (using FromJsonStringParameterSet parameter set) or from a specified JSON/Bicep file (using FromJsonFileParameterSet parameter set).

The following example creates a new Template Spec version "v1.0" in a Template Spec named "myTemplateSpec". The specified version will have $templateJson as the version's ARM Template content.

$templateJson = @"
{
    "$schema": "http://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
  "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
  "parameters": {},
  "resources": []
}
"@
New-AzTemplateSpec -ResourceGroupName 'myRG' -Name 'myTemplateSpec' -Version 'v1.0' -Location 'West US' -TemplateJson $templateJson

Additional details at New-AzTemplateSpec (Az.Resources) | Microsoft Docs