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FRUSTRATION!!!
Don’t you just love it when you change nothing and then something breaks?  Working with VSCode and Azure, I do a lot of Infrastructure as Code.  I love the idea of being able to write code that builds exactly what I want, every time.  The problem is that on occasion, things change outside the scope of my code and now I am trying to solve a mystery.  The latest one involves whenever I run a simple Azure command.  For exam, Get-AZVM. This should not be hard.  Well, here is the result in VSCode.

No subscription found in the context. Please ensure that the credentials you provided are authorized to access an Azure subscription, then run Connect-AzAccount to login

So, I execute :


Connect-AzAccount

When you do this, it brings us to a website to go to and a code to enter.


PS C:\Connect-AzAccount


WARNING: To sign in, use a web browser to open the page https://microsoft.com/devicelogin and enter the code FNTC88YR4 to authenticate.

Once you enter the code into the website, you are asked to provide your credentials to access the Azure subscription that you want to program for.  Here is the response.


Account                 SubscriptionName TenantId                             Environment
-------                 ---------------- --------                             -----------
XXXXXXXX@ZZZZ.com                        VVVVVVVV-WWWW-XXXX-YYYY-ZZZZZZZZZZZZ AzureCloud

All seams well until you run an Azure command and you get the same error.  Very frustrating.

When I run Get-AZSubscription, this is what I get.


PS C:\Get-AzSubscription

WARNING: Unable to acquire token for tenant 'AAAAAAAA-BBBB-CCCC-DDDD-EEEEEEEEEEEE'
WARNING: Unable to acquire token for tenant 'FFFFFFFF-GGGG-HHHH-IIII-JJJJJJJJJJJJ'

Now, I have used several different subscriptions before.  Since I do teach Azure classes I use a temporary Azure account for the class can not my corporate account.  None of the TenantId numbers match my corporate account.

Using Set-AZContext did not yield any good results.

When using Set-AZSubscription with the correct subscription ID, I get this:


Set-AzContext: Please provide a valid tenant or a valid subscription.

Did I mention that Set-AZContext did not work?

Fortunately, I stumbled across this simple command.


PS C:\Clear-AzContext

Confirm
Remove all accounts and subscriptions in all sessions for the current user?
[Y] Yes [N] No [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "Yes"): y
PS C:\Connect-AzAccount

WARNING: To sign in, use a web browser to open the page https://microsoft.com/devicelogin and enter the code FZG9NDZD5 to authenticate.

Account                 SubscriptionName TenantId                             Environment
-------                 ---------------- --------                             -----------
JASON_YODER@hotmail.com MSDN Platforms   5fd82206-550e-4185-bbc6-7346fa9a0a47 AzureCloud

Yep, that is all that it took.  I still have no idea why it would not accept my credentials after it accepts my credentials, but at least I have a quick fix and now, so do you.

As for accessing azure:


PS C:\get-azvm


ResourceGroupName       Name      Location          VmSize  OsType                NIC Provisio
                                                                                      ningStat
                                                                                             e 
-----------------       ----      --------          ------  ------                --- -------- 
NAVY1               DC-navy1 canadacentral   Standard_B2ms Windows   DCInterfacenavy1 …cceeded 
NAVY1             SVR1-navy1 canadacentral Standard_DS1_v2 Windows SVR1Interfacenavy1 …cceeded

It works!

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