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Registering an Azure Resource Provider with PowerShell

Azure seems to be the cloud that just keeps building and building. Resource providers allow Azure to provide services.  For example, virtual machines utilize the Microsoft.Compute  resource provider to provide services to Azure so you can have a virtual machine.  Checkout this article to see what the Microsoft.Compute exposes to Azure:  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/resource-provider-operations#microsoftcompute It is not that exciting to look at.  What is exciting is what resource providers can do.  Azure acts as an orchestrator.  The resource providers tell Azure what they can do and they perform all the work.  Each resource must be registered with the subscription before Azure can utilize them.  Just remember that you cannot unregister a resource provider if any Azure asset in your subscription is using it. (Note: The following assumes that you are using VSCode and are logged into your Azure subscription. Our goal is to register the Micros