How to set default storage Account for Azure RM Subscription

Question

I am trying to set Azure Rm Subscription (Get-AzureRMSubscription) CurrentStorageAccount to a particular arm storage account (Get-AzureRmStorageAccount) and I am not able to find a cmdlet that does that.

With regular old azure cmdlets I am able to do following to set CurrentStorageAccount as

$subscription = Get-AzureSubscription
Set-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $subscription.SubscriptionName -CurrentStorageAccountName "somestorageaccount"

Get-AzureSubscription | select *

This set's it. But I cannot do this inside arm cmdlets.

Another thing that is confusing is that I am using the same subscription eg. Visual Studio Enterprise. And using both arm and regular cmdlets get-azuresubscription I get the same subscription but why is one showing -CurrentStorageAccount and another subscription not showing -CurrentStorageAccount.

score 11 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 10 '17 at 04:51

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To set the default RM subscription for the current session in PowerShell use

Get-AzureRmSubscription –SubscriptionName "MyFavSubscription" | Select-AzureRmSubscription

and to set the default RM storage context for the current session

Set-AzureRmCurrentStorageAccount –ResourceGroupName "MyFavResourceGroup" `
                                 –StorageAccountName "MyFavStorageAccountName"

edited Feb 10 '17 at 04:51

answered Dec 16 '16 at 10:11

NER1808

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How do you know if piping the result to Select-AzureRMSubscription is setting the "default" versus the "current" subscription? I couldn't find the answer here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/azure/select-azuresubscription?view=azuresmps-4.0.0 – successhawk Feb 13 '18 at 22:16
By the looks of it, if you don't specify -default or -current than both are set. If you only want to set one or other then add the flag. – NER1808 Mar 21 '18 at 12:08
@Mitul If this is the answer to your question please mark it as such – NER1808 Sep 11 '18 at 19:24

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 10 '17 at 03:35

First, you must set your default subscription.

$SubscriptionName = "MyDefaultSubscription"
Select-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $SubscriptionName –Default

In other cases, you can set your default subscription location.

# For example, South Central US
$Location = "South Central US"

Then get your storage account name/s

$StorageAccountName = (Get-AzureStorageAccount)[0].label

Notice the number zero? It indicates the numbering of your storage. The numbering starts with 0. If you use the command Get-AzureStorageAccount, it will list all of your (classic) storage accounts. For that you can choose your desired storage.

Then lastly, set your default storage account.

Set-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $SubscriptionName -CurrentStorageAccountName $StorageAccountName

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 22 '16 at 21:34

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That commandlet is called Set-AzureRMCurrentStorageAccount.

answered Apr 22 '16 at 21:34

Alex Belotserkovskiy

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So that command doesn't work. I see currentstorageaccount as blank when I execute Get-AzureRmSubscription | select * – Mitul Apr 22 '16 at 21:45
It sets on the context so if I do Get-AzureRMContext it give me the CurrentStorageAccount – Mitul Apr 22 '16 at 21:48

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 25 '16 at 04:22

Exactly as you said, set-azureRmCurrentStorageAccount -context $Ctx will set your default Storage account to context. I also can't find any articles to get out explanation on this. I think you can try to use Azure CLI to set your default Azure storage account in environment variables.

How to set default storage Account for Azure RM Subscription

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