Change Azure website web hosting plan mode using Powershell

Question

I've been reading the following article that describes how to change the web hosting plan for your site.

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/azure-web-sites-web-hosting-plans-in-depth-overview/

That seems to work fine but if I use the same command to change the web hosting mode (using property: "sku": "Free" to "sku": "Standard") it doesn't give any error feedback and just returns with the unchanged (previous) stored configuration.

Command executed:

$standardServer=@{"sku" = "Standard"; }
Set-AzureResource -Name 'tmtest2' -ResourceGroupName 'Default-Web-JapanWest' -ResourceType Microsoft.Web/sites -ApiVersion 2014-04-01 -PropertyObject $standardServer

Anyone had any luck changing the web hosting mode using Powershell?

Edit: I also tried this link that exactly describes what I'm trying to achieve. However it did not work.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn654578.aspx

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 23 '14 at 10:11

I figured this out. You need to create a hosting plan (with 'Standard' mode) first as a resource under a default resource group. Then you need to assign the website to the hostingplan.

Here's the full script:

Switch-AzureMode AzureResourceManager

Add-AzureAccount

$locations = @('East Asia', 'Southeast Asia', 'East US', 'East US 2', 'West US', 'North Central US', 'South Central US', 'Central US', 'North Europe', 'West Europe', 'Japan East', 'Japan West', 'Brazil South')

$websiteName = Read-Host 'What is the name of your website (without azurewebsites.net)' #tmtest2
$location = Read-Host 'What is the region location of the website'   

if (-Not($locations -contains $location)) {
 throw "location is incorrect, try one of these values: " + (($locations | select -expand $_) -join ", ")
}

$resourceGroupName = 'Default-Web-' + $location.Replace(' ', '');

#create a new web hosting plan - Small Standard machine
$hostingPlanName = $websiteName + 'HostingPlan';
$p=@{"name"= $hostingPlanName;"sku"= "Standard";"workerSize"= "0";"numberOfWorkers"= 1}
New-AzureResource -ApiVersion 2014-04-01 -Name $hostingPlanName -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -ResourceType Microsoft.Web/serverFarms -Location $location -PropertyObject $p -Verbose -Force

$r = Get-AzureResource -Name $websiteName -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -ResourceType Microsoft.Web/sites -ApiVersion 2014-04-01
echo $r

$p = $null;
$p = @{ 'serverFarm' = $hostingPlanName }
$r = Set-AzureResource -Name $websiteName -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -ResourceType Microsoft.Web/sites -ApiVersion 2014-04-01 -PropertyObject $p
#echo $r.Properties

if (-Not($r.Properties['sku'] -eq 'Standard')) {
    throw 'script executed but sku has not been changed'
}

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:33

Start your Azure Resource Manager.

Add-AzureAccount
Switch-AzureMode AzureResourceManager

Get your Azure PowerShell API Version (This link shows how)

$DebugPreference='Continue'
Get-AzureResourceGroup
$DebugPreference='SilentlyContinue'

Get the Name, ResourceGroupName, and ResourceType of your Website Resources

Get-AzureResource | `
Where-Object { $_.ResourceType -like '*site*' } | `
Format-Table Name, ResourceGroupName, ResourceType

Change the Azure Website Hosting Plan for your target Website

Set-AzureResource 
    -Name the-website-name
    -ResourceGroupName 'the-resource-group-name' 
    -ResourceType 'Microsoft.Web/sites'
    -ApiVersion '2014-04-01-preview'
    -PropertyObject @{ 'ServerFarm' = 'the-target-server-farm-name' }

Notes:

You can also run Get-AzureResource in a similar way.
To change the hosting plan with Set-AzureResource, you only need the ServerFarm property.

Change Azure website web hosting plan mode using Powershell

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