How to configure the Azure Stack user's PowerShell environment

As an Azure Stack user, you can use PowerShell to manage Azure Stack resources such as create virtual machines, deploy Azure Resource Manager templates, etc. This topic is scoped to use with the user environments only. In order to interact with Azure Stack PowerShell, you will need to set up your environment. To do so follow the below guide:

Prerequisites

Prerequisites from a Windows-based external client.

PowerShell 5.1

Note

To check your version, run $PSVersionTable.PSVersion and compare the "Major" version.

For "legacy" operating systems such as Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1 you will need to download the Windows Management Framework 5.1

Declare variables

Enter details below to provide values for the variables in the scripts in this article:

Variable name	Variable description	Input
$ArmEndpoint	The Azure Resource Manager endpoint for Azure Stack
$AzsUsername	Your AAD username
$AzsPassword	Your AAD password

Install Azure Stack PowerShell

# Set Execution Policy
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
  
# PowerShell commands for Azure Stack are installed through the PSGallery repository
# To register the PSGallery repository, open an elevated PowerShell session and run the following command:
Set-PSRepository -Name "PSGallery" -InstallationPolicy Trusted
  
# Uninstall existing versions of Azure/Azure Stack PowerShell
Get-Module -Name Azs.*, Azure* -ListAvailable | Uninstall-Module -Force -Verbose
  
# Install the AzureRM.BootStrapper module. Select Yes when prompted to install NuGet
Install-Module -Name AzureRM.BootStrapper -Verbose

# Install and import the API Version Profile required by Azure Stack into the current PowerShell session
Use-AzureRmProfile -Profile 2019-03-01-hybrid -Force
Install-Module -Name AzureStack -RequiredVersion 1.7.2 -Verbose

Enable additional storage features

# Install the Azure.Storage module version 4.5.0
Install-Module -Name Azure.Storage -RequiredVersion 4.5.0 -AllowClobber -Force -Verbose

# Install the AzureRm.Storage module version 5.0.4
Install-Module -Name AzureRM.Storage -RequiredVersion 5.0.4 -AllowClobber -Force -Verbose

# Remove incompatible storage module installed by AzureRM.Storage
Uninstall-Module Azure.Storage -RequiredVersion 4.6.1 -Force -Verbose

Azure Active Directory (AAD) based deployments

# Set Execution Policy
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

# Declare endpoint
$ArmEndpoint = "https://management.frn00006.azure.ukcloud.com"

# Register an AzureRM environment that targets your Azure Stack instance
Add-AzureRmEnvironment -Name "AzureStackUser" -ArmEndpoint $ArmEndpoint

# Sign in to your environment
Connect-AzureRmAccount -EnvironmentName "AzureStackUser"

Azure Active Directory (AAD) based deployments - Embedded Credentials

# Set Execution Policy
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

# Declare endpoint
$ArmEndpoint = "https://management.frn00006.azure.ukcloud.com"

# Register an AzureRM environment that targets your Azure Stack instance
Add-AzureRmEnvironment -Name "AzureStackUser" -ArmEndpoint $ArmEndpoint

# Create your Credentials
$AzsUsername = "user@contoso.onmicrosoft.com"
$AzsPassword = 'Password123!'
$AzsUserPassword = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $AzsPassword -AsPlainText -Force
$AzsCred = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $AzsUsername, $AzsUserPassword

# Sign in to your environment
Connect-AzureRmAccount -Credential $AzsCred -EnvironmentName "AzureStackUser"

Test the connectivity

Now that we've got everything set-up, let's use PowerShell to create resources within Azure Stack. For example, you can create a resource group for an application and add a virtual machine. Use the following command to create a resource group named "MyResourceGroup":

# Get location of Azure Stack
$Location = (Get-AzureRmLocation).Location

New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name "MyResourceGroup" -Location $Location

Next steps

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