How to stop/start an azure vm using service principle through powershell ?

Question

Hello! Iam a new azure user and wanted to ask, is there a way to stop, restart or start an Azure VM using the service principle through PowerShell?

As a service principle I have

User Name, Secrets , Application Id, Object Id, Directory Id

Answer 1

@JyotiPrakash Mallick ,
Azure PowerShell supports several authentication methods. The easiest way to get started is with Azure Cloud Shell, which automatically logs you in. You can create an Azure service principal with Azure PowerShell and the below articles explain the different methods to achieve it.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/authenticate-azureps?view=azps-7.0.0
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/create-azure-service-principal-azureps?view=azps-7.0.0

Here is the link that explains the AZ commands we can use to start or stop the Azure VM.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/ps-common-ref

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

@JyotiPrakash Mallick , Try this.

   $pscredential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $AzureApplicationID, $passwordNEW  

Note: This is not a secure method to work with credentials. Instead, convert the password to readable text and store it on your hidden files and call the file with location in your automation script.

Edit: To implement security while calling creds,

   $secureStringText = $passwordNEW | ConvertFrom-SecureString   
     
   Set-Content "home/username/password.txt" $secureStringText  
     
   $pwdTxt = Get-Content "home/username/password.txt"  
     
   $securePwd = $pwdTxt | ConvertTo-SecureString  
     
   $credObject = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $$AzureApplicationID, $securePwd  

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