Azure PS Automation Provided subscription "xxxx" does not exists - azure

Question

I wish to select a subscription available for my service principle within an Azure Automation PS job. Running the following code locally works fine, but within the automation job, I only get the following error
Provided subscription xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxx-xxxx does not exist.
The subscription does exist, and the service principal has access to it when I log onto it locally.
$id = "someid"
$pass = "somepass"
$securePass = $pass | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force
$cred = new-object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PsCredential -ArgumentList $id, $securePass
$tenantId = "someID"
Add-AzureRmAccount -Credential $cred -TenantId $tenantId -ServicePrincipal
Select-AzureRmSubscription -SubscriptionId "someID"

Answer 1

Finally, I figured out this issue, after some days.
This issue is already reported here.
It is due to the issue related to Add-AzureRmAccount cmdlets with Service Principal.
There is a workaround to solve this issue, as mentioned by Hariharan
$connectionAssetName = "AzureRunAsConnection"
$conn = Get-AutomationConnection -Name $ConnectionAssetName
Login-AzureRmAccount `
-ServicePrincipal `
-CertificateThumbprint $conn.CertificateThumbprint `
-ApplicationId $conn.ApplicationId `
-TenantId $conn.TenantID `
-Environment AzureGermanCloud
Refer this S.O

Answer 2

For using Azure Automation, you should create the Automation account with AzureRunAsConnection enabled. Then from the script you utilize it like this
$connectionName = "AzureRunAsConnection"
try {
# Get the connection "AzureRunAsConnection "
$servicePrincipalConnection = Get-AutomationConnection -Name $connectionName
"Logging in to Azure..."
Connect-AzureRmAccount `
-ServicePrincipal `
-TenantId $servicePrincipalConnection.TenantId `
-ApplicationId $servicePrincipalConnection.ApplicationId `
-CertificateThumbprint $servicePrincipalConnection.CertificateThumbprint
}
catch {
if (!$servicePrincipalConnection) {
$ErrorMessage = "Connection $connectionName not found."
throw $ErrorMessage
}
else {
Write-Error -Message $_.Exception
throw $_.Exception
}
}
Hope this helps