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Amar Patil
Amar Patil

Reputation: 75

Set-AzureSubscription : Cannot bind parameter 'Certificate' becuase of illegal characters error

I am running this command on Windows 2012 server R2 with Azure Powershell

I am using following code for setting azure subscription 

C:\PS>$subID = <Subscription ID>
C:\PS>$thumbprint = <Certificate Thumbprint>

Getting certificate thumbprint contain using

C:\PS>$myCert = Get-Item cert:\\CurrentUser\My\$thumbprint | Out-String
C:\PS>Set-AzureSubscription –SubscriptionName $subID –SubscriptionId $subID –Certificate `"$myCert`"

But it is failing with following error

Set-AzureSubscription : Cannot bind parameter 'Certificate'. Error: can't convert illegal characters

I have also tried with following code

C:\PS>$myCert = Get-Item cert:\\CurrentUser\My\$thumbprint
C:\PS>Set-AzureSubscription –SubscriptionName $subID –SubscriptionId $subID –Certificate $myCert

Still it is failing with error Cannot bind parameter 'Certificate'

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 763

Answers (2)

Neil Mackenzie
Neil Mackenzie

Reputation: 2847

You should stop using certificates for Azure PowerShell auth and start using AAD. This works for both the Azure Service Management and Azure Resource Manager modes of PowerShell.

Add-AzureAccount Select-AzureSubscription ... Set-AzureSubscription ...

and you're done - never having to worry about certificates again.

Upvotes: 2

Simon W
Simon W

Reputation: 5496

You should use:

Get-Item Cert:\CurrentUser\

(i.e. not cert:\\CurrentUser\ with two back slashes)

Upvotes: 0

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