How to hide warnings from Azure PowerShell cmdlets

Question

Am getting warnings when i invoke some azure commandlets. Example:

Get-AzureStorageAccount -StorageAccountName $storageName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -WarningAction SilentlyContinue -verbose:$false

New-AzureStorageAccount -StorageAccountName $storageName -Location $storageLocation -ErrorAction Stop -WarningAction SilentlyContinue -verbose:$false

WARNING: GeoReplicationEnabled property will be deprecated in a future release of Azure PowerShell. The value will be merged into the AccountType property.

Please note: I have been using $verbose:False to avoid such messages from the invocation. But could not stop this WARNING from appearing.

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered May 04 '15 at 15:51

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You could try -WarningAction Ignore, but if that doesn't work, you can redirect the warning stream, which is stream 3, to $null (or to wherever you want):

New-AzureStorageAccount -StorageAccountName $storageName 3> $null
# Left out other parameters for readability

Note that -Verbose:$false will affect verbose messages, not warnings, which are a different stream.

about_Redirection

Also note that this requires Powershell 3+:

The All (*), Warning (3), Verbose (4) and Debug (5) redirection operators were introduced in Windows PowerShell 3.0. They do not work in earlier versions of Windows PowerShell.

answered May 04 '15 at 15:51

briantist

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Thanks! But how to put this in a readable form. Is there some inbuilt variable to get 3 (Warning stream). For a beginner, 3> $null would be new and difficult to understand! Please let me know if it make sense. – Pradebban Raja May 04 '15 at 16:05
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking about putting it in a readable form. – briantist May 04 '15 at 16:07
Just include a comment explaining what the 3 means – Kyle Delaney Oct 12 '18 at 22:26
I was responding to @PradebbanRaja – Kyle Delaney Oct 15 '18 at 16:28

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 06 '15 at 01:36

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I have exactly the same problem before and solve this by the follow:

New-AzureStorageAccount ... | Out-Null

answered May 06 '15 at 01:36

juvchan

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How to hide warnings from Azure PowerShell cmdlets

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