In Azure powershell Select-AzureSubscription command fetching error the subscription name doesn t exist

Question

I have installed the latest version of PowerShell and was able to login to it with my Azure account and ran Get-AzureRmSubscription to see all my subscriptions listed. 

But, when i tried to run Select-AzureSubscription and then entered the subscription name when prompted, with no quotes, single quotes, and double quotes, I haven't been able to get this to work.

I keep getting an error saying something like "The subscription name 'XXXX' doesn't exist".

I've also tried doing this using "Select-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionID" with the subscription IDs listed, with similar results.

Can anyone tell me where am I going wrong?

Answer 1

In case you are using Azure Resource Manager, the proper cmdlet is:

Get-AzureRmSubscription –SubscriptionName "<name>" | Select-AzureRmSubscription

or just use -SubscriptionId instead of -SubscriptionName

Select-AzureSubscription is to be used to manage classic resources. To make it work you also have to add classic credentials using:

Add-AzureAccount

Answer 2

The problem you're having is that the 'default' parameter is depreciated.

if you run

Select-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName "Visual Studio Premium with MSDN" `
                         -Default "Visual Studio Premium with MSDN"

You get -

WARNING: Current and Default parameters have been deprecated. Select-AzureSubscription will always update the Default Subscription

If you just run

 Select-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName "Visual Studio Premium with MSDN"  

You should get the result you're looking for.

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