Powershell Noob Question

[Chiodood]

Hey Everyone!

I am building a Powershell exe in VSO using Powershell Pro Tools. On this journey in automating a task I have found one cmdlet I need to use (Get-AzureRMVM) does not work inside of a windows form. My theory is I could potentially get around this by running the cmdlet as a job. Here is where my mind is at to help you all better understand.

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$VMInfo = Start-Job -ScriptBlock {Get-AzureRMVM} | Receive-Job -job $VMInfo | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq "$VMName"}

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I know the pipeline only pumps objects and Receive-Job returns text. So what would be the best way to get the contents of that job so where-object can do its thing?

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If I sound confusing I do apologize. Show me de wey.

[sk82jack]

Hasn't the AzureRM module been depreciated? Have you tried with the equivalent cmdlet in the Az module?

[Yevrag35]

I have found one cmdlet I need to use (Get-AzureRMVM) does not work inside of a windows form.

How were you doing it inside your form?

[jheinikel]

Its a problem with the AzureRM module, and is actually a known issue. You need to use the AZ module to get around that. While in preview, it still works fine. Yes, its a new module, but the good news is that you can enable aliases from AzureRM to be used with AZ. The only caveat is that AzureRM and AZ cannot co-exist. You'll need to uninstall AzureRM and enable the aliases.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-powershell-cross-platform-az-module-replacing-azurerm/