I was trying to make a new Linux VM using the Azure PowerShell commandlet New-AzureQuickVM, which basically makes a VM very quickly for you using one of the images available in the catalog. However, I kept running into this message:
New-AzureQuickVM : CurrentStorageAccountName is not accessible. Ensure the current storage account is accessible and in the same location or affinity group as your cloud service.
Now, when you first create a VM in the Azure Web Console, you’ll be prompted to create a Storage Account if you don’t already have one. Assuming you’ve done so, the first thing you should check is to see if the Storage Account is defined within your Azure Subscription. From Powershell, run the
Get-AzureSubscription
Command.
Ah, that will definitely cause an issue. We need to get the StorageAccountName and register it to our current subscription. You can query the names of all of your Azure Storage Accounts with Get-AzureStorageAccounts.
We need the name under ‘Label’. We now need to set this value on our Azure Subscription using the Set-AzureSubscription commandlette. For cool points, we’re going to specify the name on the parameter by calling a lazy property of a nested command. Sounds fancy, right?
Set-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName "Free Trial" ` -CurrentStorageAccountName (Get-AzureStorageAccount).Label -PassThru
We’re using a dash to wrap the command around, and using the PassThru switch to tell the command to provide us some output that something actually happened. (not really true, PassThru actually is a switch available on many commandlettes that prompts the function to create a PowerShell object and pipe it on the next element in the Pipeline. If it is the last one in a pipeline, though, this output will dump be default into Out-Host) If all goes well, you should be able to check that value was saved by running Get-AzureSubscription again. I’ve placed both commands on the same screen to keep down the number of screenshots.
Bottom: Checking that our changes stuck.
And now, lets try to make that VM. The New-AzureQuickVM command has a few mandatory parameters, namely $ServiceName, $ImageName, Password and LinuxUser. Service name is the name of the Cloud Service you’ve made in Azure, while ImageName is the name of the image you want to use for this VM (you can see the full list of images by using the Get-AzureVMImage commandlette), Password is your Azure Password and LinuxUser is the name of a user account to be given root permissions, and finally Name is the name of the VM. To make this easier on yourself, specify all of these values in variables first. Go ahead and throw on a -Verbose switch to get some detailed information about the tasks at hand.
Now, go to your Azure management console and wait just a few moments. You’ll see the VM appear in real time. Very, very cool.
By default this will create and start a ‘Small’ sized VM, which will cost you $46 a month on a base level subscription. Keep this in mind as you begin scripting the creation of VMs unless you can pay for it.
Hey there, many thanks for this post, got me one step further in my azure journey 🙂
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Perfect thing it helped me solve my issue. Thank you for posting this appreciate it a lot!
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Hello, Steve,
Hope you’re having a good day.
Nice post. However, I’m unable to get pass this error, while trying to get my storage account associated with my subscription using PowerShell.
As part of my effort to automate a website deployment on Microsoft Azure using Microsoft Azure PowerShell, I encountered two errors, while trying to get it setup, and was wondering if any of you have come across either or both of these –
Get-AzureAffinityGroup : AuthenticationFailed: A security token exception occured for the received JWT token.
and
PS C:\> Get-AzureSubscription | Set-AzureSubscription -CurrentStorageAccount teststorageacc1
Set-AzureSubscription : The input object cannot be bound because it did not contain the information required to bind
all mandatory parameters: Certificate
Snapshot below from the PowerShell window –
PS C:\> Get-AzureAffinityGroup
VERBOSE: 1:43:25 PM – Begin Operation: Get-AzureAffinityGroup
Get-AzureAffinityGroup : AuthenticationFailed: A security token exception occured for the received JWT token.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-AzureAffinityGroup
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : CloseError: (:) [Get-AzureAffinityGroup], CloudException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.ServiceManagement.AffinityGroups.GetAzureAffinityGroup
VERBOSE: 1:43:34 PM – Completed Operation: Get-AzureAffinityGroup
PS C:\> Get-AzureSubscription | Set-AzureSubscription -CurrentStorageAccount teststorageacc1
Set-AzureSubscription : The input object cannot be bound because it did not contain the information required to bind
all mandatory parameters: Certificate
At line:1 char:25
+ Get-AzureSubscription | Set-AzureSubscription -CurrentStorageAccount teststorageacc1
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (Microsoft.Windo…ureSubscription:PSObject) [Set-AzureSubscription], P
arameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InputObjectMissingMandatory,Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.Profile.SetAzureSubscription
Command
Thank you for your kind attention into this.
Thanking you,
Warm regards,
Chandrasekhar G
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For the bottom error, you’re missing input for one of the mandatory parameters for set-subscription. I would recommend looking at the get-help – examples for that command.
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