Runbook automation fails but powershell cmd line works fine - azure

I have the following powershell code for suspending azure d/w
$TenantId = "<>"
$SubscriptionId = "<>"
# Get the service principal credentials connected to the automation account.
$SPCredential = Get-AutomationPSCredential -Name "psvar"
# Login to Azure ($null is to prevent output, since Out-Null doesn't work in Azure)
Write-Output "Login to Azure using automation account 'psvar'."
$null = Login-AzureRmAccount -TenantId $TenantId -SubscriptionId $SubscriptionId -Credential $SPCredential
Write-Output "Login Status "
# Select the correct subscription
Write-Output "Selecting subscription '$($SubscriptionId)'."
$null = Select-AzureRmSubscription -SubscriptionID $SubscriptionId
$ResourceGroupName = '<>'
$ServerName = '<>'
$DatabaseName = '<>'
Write-Output "Suspending $($DatabaseName)..."
$null = Suspend-AzureRmSqlDatabase `
-ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName`
-DatabaseName $DatabaseName`
-ServerName $ServerName
Write-Output "Done"
Suspend azure rm sqldatabase works fine in PowerShell Azure Command line interface
But in runbook automation it fails with
Suspend-AzureRmSqlDatabase : Run Login-AzureRmAccount to login.
At line:33 char:9
+ $null = Suspend-AzureRmSqlDatabase `
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Suspend-AzureRmSqlDatabase], PSInvalidOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId :
InvalidOperation,Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Sql.DatabaseActivation.Cmdlet.SuspendAzureSqlDatabase
Any idea what could be wrong. Appreciate any pointers regarding this

I test your script, it works in the runbook.
Navigate to the automation account -> Credentials, make sure your user account name and password are correct.
If it still not work, you could try my solution here, it works.

For Azure Synapse analytics we need to use
Update-AzSynapseSqlPool -WorkspaceName <wsname>-Name <dbname> -Pause

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Get-AzSubscription won't show my subscription

I have a subscription I want to pause/resume with a PowerShell script (Azure Analysis Services). I use this exact same script to pause my Embedded Capacity and that works fine, but when I run my script for my new subscription it wont work. This is the script I use:
$userPassword = "myappsecret"
$userPassword2 = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $userPassword -AsPlainText -Force
$Credential = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList "appid", $userPassword2
Connect-AzAccount -ServicePrincipal -TenantId "tenantid" -Credential $Credential
Select-AzSubscription -SubscriptionId "subscriptionname here"
Get-AzPowerBIEmbeddedCapacity -ResourceGroupName "groupnamehere" -Name "namehere"
Suspend-AzPowerBIEmbeddedCapacity -Name "namehere" -ResourceGroupName "groupnamehere" -PassThru
To check why this won't work I tried to simply use Get-AzSubscription to see if something was wrong and it wont show any subscription.
If I try the same for my Embedded Capacity it works just fine.
What could be wrong?
To get the list of all Azure Ad subscriptions by using Get-AzSubscription, make sure that you have owner/admin role.
You can make use of the below command to get Azure Ad subscriptions for a specific tenant:
Make sure to connect-azaccount with Administrator details.
Get-AzSubscription -TenantId "your_tenant_id"
Get-AzContext command list the information of the Azure Subscription that is currently selected.
To use a specific subscription, you can make use of below command:
Get-AzSubscription -SubscriptionId "xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx" -TenantId "yyyy-yyyy-yyyy-yyyy" | Set-AzContext
Or please modify your code by adding the below snippet:
$subscriptionId = 'Your_Subscription_ID';
Select-AzSubscription -SubscriptionId $subscriptionId
You can check the Subscription Id via Azure Portal too.
Reference:
Get-AzSubscription (Az.Accounts) | Microsoft Docs

Azure Automation Job runs fine manually but fails when triggered by webhook

I've got an Automation Account in Azure that runs a Powershell runbook.
It runs perfectly fine when I trigger it via the portal, manually specifying the inputs
I've created a webhook with the same input settings. I call it from CURL like
curl -d '' https://800b2bec-b1ae-4fa1-ba30-8c7d32096828.webhook.ae.azure-automation.net/webhooks?[redactedtoken]
The webhook shows as triggered successfully in the portal, however the job fails with no visible error.
There is no output, even though the first line in my powershell function is Write-Output "Hello"
There are no exception messages, no logs at all.
Any idea how I might get more information as to what might be going wrong?
I've updated the Az modules and enabled verbose logging in the runbook.
Full source below, if it helps.
Param(
[string]$resourceGroup,
[string]$VMName,
[string]$method,
[string]$UAMI
)
Write-Output "Hello"
$automationAccount = "AlsAutomation"
# Ensures you do not inherit an AzContext in your runbook
Disable-AzContextAutosave -Scope Process | Out-Null
# Connect using a Managed Service Identity
try {
$AzureContext = (Connect-AzAccount -Identity).context
}
catch{
Write-Output "There is no system-assigned user identity. Aborting.";
exit
}
# set and store context
$AzureContext = Set-AzContext -SubscriptionName $AzureContext.Subscription `
-DefaultProfile $AzureContext
if ($method -eq "SA")
{
Write-Output "Using system-assigned managed identity"
}
elseif ($method -eq "UA")
{
Write-Output "Using user-assigned managed identity"
# Connects using the Managed Service Identity of the named user-assigned managed identity
$identity = Get-AzUserAssignedIdentity -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup `
-Name $UAMI -DefaultProfile $AzureContext
# validates assignment only, not perms
if ((Get-AzAutomationAccount -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup `
-Name $automationAccount `
-DefaultProfile $AzureContext).Identity.UserAssignedIdentities.Values.PrincipalId.Contains($identity.PrincipalId))
{
$AzureContext = (Connect-AzAccount -Identity -AccountId $identity.ClientId).context
# set and store context
$AzureContext = Set-AzContext -SubscriptionName $AzureContext.Subscription -DefaultProfile $AzureContext
}
else {
Write-Output "Invalid or unassigned user-assigned managed identity"
exit
}
}
else {
Write-Output "Invalid method. Choose UA or SA."
exit
}
# Get current state of VM
$status = (Get-AzVM -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -Name $VMName `
-Status -DefaultProfile $AzureContext).Statuses[1].Code
Write-Output "`r`n Beginning VM status: $status `r`n"
# Start or stop VM based on current state
if($status -eq "Powerstate/deallocated")
{
Start-AzVM -Name $VMName -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -DefaultProfile $AzureContext
}
elseif ($status -eq "Powerstate/running")
{
Stop-AzVM -Name $VMName -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -DefaultProfile $AzureContext -Force
}
# Get new state of VM
$status = (Get-AzVM -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -Name $VMName -Status `
-DefaultProfile $AzureContext).Statuses[1].Code
Write-Output "`r`n Ending VM status: $status `r`n `r`n"
Write-Output "Account ID of current context: " $AzureContext.Account.Id
We have tested this in our local environment it is working fine, Below statements are based on the analysis.
In our local environment, We have created a Powershell runbook running with different PowerShell Versions 7.1 & Version 5.1.
Using the above share Script & webhook URI, when we are trying to invoke the runbook (PowerShell version 7.1) using the `Invoke-webRequest method it is continuously failing.
Alternatively, We have tried to invoke the runbook (PowerShell version 5.1) using the Invoke-webRequest method it is working fine.
We would suggest you to use Powershell Version 5.1 instead of 7.1 in your Runbook.
Here is the sample Output for reference:

How to get the certifcate from Key vaults using power shell script?

I need help on this scenario. we have a cert in azure key vault which needs to be download to a windows VM for our .net application to run on iis. I am able to upload the cert to Azure keyvault with out issues. I am running a azure devops powershell tasks inline powershell script.
it will connect to azure using conenct-azaccount with appropriate login creds.enter code here
we run invoke-azvmssruncommand and specific the script path and variable which needs to be passed as parameters.
in the PowerShell script we have script to get the cert from azure keyvualt once its connected to azure vm
below is the error
error: an error occurred while sending request. need your thoughts on it.
Invoke-AzVmssVMRunCommand -VMScaleSetName dev-CTUS -ResourceGroupName RG -InstanceId $instanceid -CommandId 'RunPowerShellScript'-ScriptPath "path"\downloadcertfromkeyvault.ps1" -Parameter #{"vaultname"= "keyvault name";"certname"="app-DEV";"password"= "jdksjkdjalksd";"said"="";"sapuserid"; password"="password";"devSubscriptionId"="ZXXXXXXXXXX"} -Debug
this is the command which i used in azure devops powershell inline script .
inside powershell script
$SecurePassword = "$sapassword" | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force
$Credential = New-Object -TypeName "System.Management.Automation.PSCredential" -ArgumentList $said, $SecurePassword
Connect-AzAccount -Credential $Credential -Tenant "XXXXXXXXXXXX-a68c-41e5-XXXXXXXX"
Write-log "setting subscription to retrive certs"
Set-AzContext $devSubscriptionId
$password = "$password"
$password = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "$password" -AsPlainText -Force
$cert = Get-AzKeyVaultCertificate -VaultName $vaultname -Name $certname
$secret = Get-AzKeyVaultSecret -VaultName $vaultname -Name $cert.Name
$pfxpath = [System.Environment]::GetFolderPath("Desktop")
$secretByte = [Convert]::FromBase64String($secret.SecretValueText)
$x509Cert = New-Object System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate2($secretByte, "", "Exportable,PersistKeySet")
$type = [System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509ContentType]::Pfx
$pfxFileByte = $x509Cert.Export($type, $password)
# Write to a file
[System.IO.File]::WriteAllBytes("$pfxpath\$certname.pfx", $pfxFileByte)
$certificate= Get-ChildItem -path cert:\LocalMachine\My` `
Write-Log $certificate

The Resource (SQL Server) under resource group was not found

When I'm trying to fetch DB in elastic pool getting error as:
The Resource 'Microsoft.Sql/servers/dbserver.database.windows.net/databases/db_name' under resource group 'rg_name' was not found.
But for other DB servers and resource group, this script works.
The script I'm trying:
Import-Module Az.Accounts
Import-Module Az.Sql
#Connect-AzAccount -SubscriptionId $subscriptionId
$passwd = ConvertTo-SecureString <PASSWORD> -AsPlainText -Force
$pscredential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential('<Application ID>/<Service Principle ID>', $passwd)
Connect-AzAccount -ServicePrincipal -Credential $pscredential -Tenant $tenantId
#-SubscriptionId $subscriptionId
$rg = Get-AzResourceGroup -Name $resourceGroupName
Set-AzSqlDatabase -DatabaseName $DatabaseName -ElasticPoolName $PoolName -ResourceGroupName $rg.ResourceGroupName -ServerName $serverName
Read-Host -Prompt "Press Enter to exit "
I verified the permissions, resources and their names/ids all are correct.
According to the error message, I can see that you are providing the -ServerName as dbserver.database.windows.net
Please provide the -ServerName as only dbserver instead of dbserver.database.windows.net

Azure search Powershell deployment issue

We have set up for over a year automated deployment to azure to do different steps. which has been working great last week one specific step has been failing. It is setting the partition size based on a variable.
this is the PS Code:
$secpasswd = ConvertTo-SecureString $OctopusParameters["AzureSearch.Admin.Password"] -AsPlainText -Force
$creds = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ($OctopusParameters["AzureSearch.Admin.User"], $secpasswd)
Add-AzureRmAccount -Credential $creds
$Resource = Get-AzureRmResource -ResourceType "Microsoft.Search/searchServices" -ResourceGroupName $OctopusParameters["Azure.ResourceGroup"] -ResourceName $OctopusParameters["AzureSearch.SearchServiceName"]
$Resource.Properties.partitionCount = $OctopusParameters["AzureSearch.PartitionCount"]
$Resource | Set-AzureRmResource -Force
this is what the error message is now:
$Resource = Get-AzureRmResource -ResourceType "Microsoft.Search/searc ...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CategoryInfo : CloseError: (:) [Get-AzureRmResource], ErrorResponseMessageException
FullyQualifiedErrorId : DisallowedOperation,Microsoft.Azure.Commands.ResourceManager.Cmdlets.Implementation.GetAzureResourceCmdlet
is there some changes in Azure that caused this as of last week?
Not sure about the error, but you could use this command Set-AzureRmSearchService to set PartitionCount.
Note: You need to install AzureRM.Search powershell module, run this command Install-Module -Name AzureRM.Search -AllowPrerelease as admin in your powershell, more details see this link.
Command sample:
Set-AzureRmSearchService -ResourceGroupName "<ResourceGroupName>" -Name "<AzureSearchName>" -PartitionCount 2 -ReplicaCount 2
Result:

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