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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 Microsoft.Insights provider.


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# Show all available Resource Providers
Get-AzResourceProvider -ListAvailable | 
  Select-Object -Property ProviderNamespace, RegistrationState

# Show all available resource providers in a specific region.
$region = 'west us'
Get-AzResourceProvider -ListAvailable -Location $region


#Display the status of a particular resource provider
$providerNamespace= 'Microsoft.Insights'
Get-AzResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace $providerNamespace -Location $region

# Register a provider 
Register-AzResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace $providerNamespace

Here is the result:


ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registering
ResourceTypes     : {components, components/query, components/metrics, components/events}
Locations         : {East US, South Central US, North Europe, West Europe}




PS C:\> Get-AzResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace $providerNamespace 

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {components}
Locations         : {East US, South Central US, North Europe, West Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {components/query}
Locations         : {East US, South Central US, North Europe, West Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {components/metrics}
Locations         : {East US, South Central US, North Europe, West Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {components/events}
Locations         : {East US, South Central US, North Europe, West Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {webtests}
Locations         : {East US, South Central US, North Europe, West Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {scheduledqueryrules}
Locations         : {West Central US, East US, West Europe, Central India}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {components/pricingPlans}
Locations         : {East US, South Central US, North Europe, West Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {migrateToNewPricingModel}
Locations         : {East US, South Central US, North Europe, West Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {rollbackToLegacyPricingModel}
Locations         : {East US, South Central US, North Europe, West Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {listMigrationdate}
Locations         : {East US, South Central US, North Europe, West Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {logprofiles}
Locations         : {}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {migratealertrules}
Locations         : {}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {metricalerts}
Locations         : {Global}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {alertrules}
Locations         : {West US, East US, North Europe, West Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {autoscalesettings}
Locations         : {West US, East US, North Europe, South Central US}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {eventtypes}
Locations         : {}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {locations}
Locations         : {East US}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {locations/operationResults}
Locations         : {}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {vmInsightsOnboardingStatuses}
Locations         : {}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {operations}
Locations         : {}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {diagnosticSettings}
Locations         : {West US, East US, North Europe, West Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {diagnosticSettingsCategories}
Locations         : {West US, East US, North Europe, West Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {extendedDiagnosticSettings}
Locations         : {West US, East US, North Europe, West Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {metricDefinitions}
Locations         : {East US, West US, West Europe, East Asia}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {logDefinitions}
Locations         : {West US, East US, North Europe, West Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {eventCategories}
Locations         : {}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {metrics}
Locations         : {East US, West US, West Europe, East Asia}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {metricbatch}
Locations         : {}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {metricNamespaces}
Locations         : {East US, West US, West Europe, East Asia}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {actiongroups}
Locations         : {Global}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {activityLogAlerts}
Locations         : {Global}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {baseline}
Locations         : {East US, West US, West Europe, East Asia}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {metricbaselines}
Locations         : {East US, West US, West Europe, East Asia}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {calculatebaseline}
Locations         : {}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {workbooks}
Locations         : {West Europe, South Central US, East US, North Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {workbooktemplates}
Locations         : {West Europe, South Central US, East US, North Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {myWorkbooks}
Locations         : {West Europe, South Central US, East US, North Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {logs}
Locations         : {East US, East US 2, West US, Central US}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {transactions}
Locations         : {East US, South Central US, North Europe, West Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {topology}
Locations         : {East US, South Central US, North Europe, West Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {privateLinkScopes}
Locations         : {Global}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {privateLinkScopes/privateEndpointConnections}
Locations         : {Global}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {privateLinkScopes/privateEndpointConnectionProxies}
Locations         : {Global}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {privateLinkScopes/scopedResources}
Locations         : {Global}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {components/linkedstorageaccounts}
Locations         : {East US, West Central US, South Central US, North Europe}

ProviderNamespace : microsoft.insights
RegistrationState : Registered
ResourceTypes     : {privateLinkScopeOperationStatuses}
Locations         : {Global}



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