Windows Azure PowerShell – Getting Started

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Introduction:

As per command line tools, almost all operations that are performed on the Platform can be done using Rest API and PowerShell. Windows Azure PowerShell releases are very frequent.

Download Page: https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/downloads/?fb=en-us

[Last Release: February 2013]

Getting Started:

Step1: Installation

  1. Download Windows Azure PowerShell from above link.

     

  2. Select Windows Azure PowerShell click Add then Install.

  3. It install independent PowerShell module for windows Azure.

We will be using Windows PowerShell instead of Windows Azure PowerShell.

Step 2: Configuration

  1. Open Windows PowerShell and to make sure Azure PowerShell l module is available

    PS C:\> Get-Module –ListAvailable

    Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Azure\PowerShell

    ModuleType Name ExportedCommands

    ---------- ---- ----------------

    Binary Azure {Get-AzurePublishSettingsFile, Get-AzureSubscription, Import-AzurePub...

     

  2. Import Azure Module in PowerShell

    PS C:\> Import-Module Azure

     

  3. AzurePublishSettingsFile needs to be imported in PowerShell to perform an operation. (#Only Once)

    PS C:\> Get-AzurePublishSettingsFile

    This command will open a browser which may prompt for live account (associated with Windows Azure) credentials to download a file with .publishSettings extension.

    PS C:\> Import-AzurePublishSettingsFile "C:\Users\user1\Desktop\2-17-2013-credentials.publishsettings"

  4. Just to Verify that PowerShell is talking to Windows Azure :

    PS C:\> Get-AzureSubscription

    This command will display following detail:

     

    To Get List of All available Windows Azure Powershell Command:

    For a list of all Azure cmdlets type 'help azure'.

    For Node.js cmdlets type 'help node-dev'.

    For PHP cmdlets type 'help php-dev'.

    For Python cmdlets type 'help python-dev'.

     

     

Many thanks to Avkash Chauhan for review and valuable inputs.

Keywords: Windows Azure PowerShell, Configuration.

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Abhishek Anand

Support Escalation Engineer

Windows Azure Technical Support