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Intro

A quick post just to get me back into the routine, and to cover off an issue that I encountered recently, and how to resolve it.

The problem

I hadn’t done anything in Azure at home for a while and tonight I wanted to manage some VMs of mine from AZ Powershell.

First things first, connect my powershell session to my Azure account - easy right?

Connect-AzAccount -UseDeviceAuthentication

Click on the Device Login link:

Enter the onetime code in the browser:

Click on the account you wish to be signed in as:

Click to Continue

And then you see:

And you go back to your powershell session and see:

Notice anything wrong? There’s no SubscriptionName or TenantId shown.

So you think “Fine, I just need to tell it the Azure context for my subscription and tenant, so you issue the command:

Set-AzContext -SubscriptionID <SubscriptionID>

And you see an error like below:

So, the cached credentials for your Azure login are incorrect - in all likelihood, an expired access token.

So rather than work out why this happened, we just want to clear the cache.

And to do that?:

Clear-AzContext

This will give you a prompt like below:

If you enter Y and hit Enter it will clear the context.

Now, when you repeat the

Connect-AzAccount -UseDeviceAuthentication

command, you will see a far better response:

To wrap up, sometimes you just need to clear out your cache - and as ever, knowing which one, and where to look/how to do it, is half the battle!

I hope this helps if you find yourself in a similar position in future.