How to get value on Azure ARM uniqueString function in Powershell

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Is there a way to get the value returned by uniqueString in Powershell. I am creating the bulk of my environment using ARM templates, but I still need to run Powershell for certain things. Powershell needs to know the resource name suffixes generated by uniqueString. Currently I have these values hard coded.

Also, the value returned by uniqueString is excessive and severely limits resource names, ie espstorage is too long to use with uniqueString. I am considering replacing uniqueString with a CRC32 or .Net String Hash value in my templates -- since I end up hard coding the values anyway in Powershell. But from all the examples, uniqueString appears to be the "correct" way.

Use an output variable in your ARM template? – Daniel Mann May 16 '19 at 14:48 — Daniel Mann, May 16 '19 at 14:48

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 18 '19 at 14:23

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I had a similar problem with subscriptionId. My resolution is at post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56195642/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-subscriptionid-used-in-task-azure-resource-group-dep

answered May 18 '19 at 14:23

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How to get value on Azure ARM uniqueString function in Powershell

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