PowerShell commandlets

The second way to communicate with Azure Stack is PowerShell. With the wide range of PowerShell commandlets (cmdlets), everything is possible. From the administration point of view, it is always the better choice to use PowerShell, because it is reusable and redoable, and each script is a documentation itself.

The steps to enable PowerShell are as follows:

1. Enter the following command to check for installed PowerShell modules:

      Get-PSRepository  

1. Install the AzureRM module:

      Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -MinimumVersion 2.8.5.201
      -Force  

1. Verify the installation status:

      Get-Command -Module AzureRM.AzureStackAdmin  

1. Now you can start over with AzureRM PowerShell commands. Connecting to Azure Stack using PowerShell should look like this:

      $AADUserName='YourAADAccount@Yourdomain'
      $AADPassword='YourAADPassword'|ConvertTo-SecureString -Force
      -AsPlainText
      $AADCredential=New-Object PSCredential($AADUserName,$AADPassword)
    
      $AADTenantID = "YourAADDomain"
      Add-AzureRmEnvironment -Name "Azure Stack" `
      -ActiveDirectoryEndpoint 
      ("https://login.windows.net/$AADTenantID/") `
      -ActiveDirectoryServiceEndpointResourceId
      "https://azurestack.local-api/" `
      -ResourceManagerEndpoint ("https://api.azurestack.local/") `
      -GalleryEndpoint ("https://gallery.azurestack.local:30016/") `
      -GraphEndpoint "https://graph.windows.net/"
      $env = Get-AzureRmEnvironment 'Azure Stack'
      Add-AzureRmAccount -Environment $env -Credential $AADCredential
      - Verbose
      Get-AzureRmSubscription -SubscriptionName "youroffer" |
      Select-AzureRmSubscription
      Get-AzureRmResource  

Simple, isn't it?