how do I create a new azure management cache?

Question

Now that Microsoft has completely dropped the GUI support on the management portal, they are requiring me to install and setup and use windows Azure PowerShell to create a new managed cache service. As someone with not a ton of PowerShell experience. I cannot figure out how to successfully create a new azure managed cache. Does anyone have any tips?

I did the following:

• executed in PowerShell:

  Add-AzureAccount
  

• connected with login to Azure account

• executed in PowerShell:

  New-AzureManagedCache -Name test -Location "South Central"
  

and the error is:

New-AzureManagedCache : Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: managementCertificate
At line:1 char:1
+ New-AzureManagedCache -Name test-Location "South Central"
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : CloseError: (:) [New-AzureManagedCache], ArgumentNullException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.ManagedCache.NewAzureManagedCache

What should I do to fix this issue and get a new basic cache 128mb created?

Answer 1

i figured it out - i needed to

get-azurepublishsettingsfile

and then

import-azurepublishsettignsfile "c:\filename.publishsettings"

and then it appears to be creating it now

Answer 2

With explicit sku paramater:

New-AzureManagedCache -Name test -Location "South Central" -Sku Basic -Memory 128MB