Resource Group - "sandbox resource group name" does not exist

Question

I am having to redo the "Exercise - Create an Azure virtual machine" part of the "Describe Azure compute and networking services" Module from the "Microsoft Azure Fundamentals: Describe Azure architecture and services" Course due to a later exercise.

I keep getting the error unrecognized arguments: resource group name] . I'm literally copy and pasting what it says and it gives me a different output to what I originally got.

The Resource Group does not exist to create the VM, I was able to do this before, I have tried creating multiple sandboxes, relogging, checking my Azure Accounts Directory. I've seen people report about similar things on forums, nothing is working. I cannot progress this course until I redo this step

Answer 1

Hi Kynan Schwarz,

Thank you for reaching out to us on Microsoft Q&A forum.

Whenever we activate a sandbox in the exercise by clicking on "Activate sandbox" button, we can see a default resource group name starting with learn......(for example: learn-e58d2b0d-5e77-4b91-b751-c67e776463e0) next to --resource-group name as shown in the screenshot below:

If we are unable to see the default resource group name starting with learn...., kindly follow the below options to see the default resource group name for Concierge subscription.

1.Login into the Azure portal with your same credentials used for accessing the learn path. In the Azure portal go to Resource groups and under Resource groups we can see our default resource group name starting with learn...... for Concierge subscription as shown in the screenshot below:

Copy the resource group name and replace [sandbox resource group name] with the copied name by removing the brackets [] and continue the exercise.

2.Even after activation of sandbox, if we are unbale to see the default resource group name starting with learn......, as a workaround kindly go to one unit previous to unit 3: Exercise - Create an Azure virtual machine and come back again to unit 3 to see the default resource group name starting with learn.

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Answer 2

Found the issue, it was showing a template [sandbox resource group name] and not replacing that in the tutorial with the actual resource group name. As someone new to this, it's pretty bad to have this bug.

I found the resource group name by trying to create a VM manually using the Azure Portal

Answer 3

After activating the sandbox, you can put this command : az group list

That will give you the resource group name inside your sandbox subscription, use this result name for other command, for example :

[ ~ ]$ az group list

[

{

"id": "/subscriptions/ba372116-10b0-41e7-a715-29ad8c7c52f9/resourceGroups/learn-0dde0a6c-c6a7-4308-b793-54a2eedfbaf7",

"location": "westus",

"managedBy": null,

"name": "learn-0dde0a6c-c6a7-4308-b793-54a2eedfbaf7",

"properties": {

  "provisioningState": "Succeeded"

},

"tags": {

  "x-created-by": "productsandboxes",

  "x-created-for": "6a69a822-40cc-480a-a3b5-02119a2c1f7b",

  "x-module-id": "learn.design-ip-addressing-for-azure"

},

"type": "Microsoft.Resources/resourceGroups"
```  }

]

 **[ ~ ]$ az network vnet create** --resource-group learn-0dde0a6c-c6a7-4308-b793-54a2eedfbaf7 --name CoreServicesVnet --address-prefixes 10.20.0.0/16 --location westus

Answer 4

I just tried to do this by replacing the brackets with my correct RESOURCE GROUP NAME as explained in the instructions above. But i am still stuck

This is the feedback i get below

"(AuthorizationFailed) The client 'live.com#******@gmail.com' with object id '6a670350-ebc5-4d5b-92cf-5810b38a0b9a' does not have authorization to perform action 'Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/resourcegroups/read' over scope '/subscriptions/c8e91e7a-1ac8-436f-a03c-d3569abbd0f9/resourcegroups/learn-1094ae0a-6887-499f-8114-4c9d9a635813' or the scope is invalid. If access was recently granted, please refresh your credentials.

Code: AuthorizationFailed

Message: The client 'live.com#******@gmail.com' with object id '6a670350-ebc5-4d5b-92cf-5810b38a0b9a' does not have authorization to perform action 'Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/resourcegroups/read' over scope '/subscriptions/c8e91e7a-1ac8-436f-a03c-d3569abbd0f9/resourcegroups/learn-1094ae0a-6887-499f-8114-4c9d9a635813' or the scope is invalid. If access was recently granted, please refresh your credentials"

Answer 5

az group list command will display resource group required..