Frequently asked questions about Azure PowerShell

Azure PowerShell is a set of cmdlets that allows you to manage Azure resources directly with PowerShell. In December 2018, the Az PowerShell module became generally available. It's now the recommended PowerShell module for interacting with Azure. To learn more about the Az PowerShell module, see Introducing the new Azure PowerShell Az module.

To suppress the breaking change warning messages in Azure PowerShell, you'll need to set the environment variable SuppressAzurePowerShellBreakingChangeWarnings to true.

Set-Item -Path Env:\SuppressAzurePowerShellBreakingChangeWarnings -Value $true

To suppress the AzureRM retirement warning message in Azure PowerShell, you'll need to set the environment variable SuppressAzureRmModulesRetiringWarning to true.

Set-Item -Path Env:\SuppressAzureRmModulesRetiringWarning -Value $true

One disadvantage of the previous example is you'll need to run the command for each new PowerShell session unless you add it to your PowerShell profile.

To set the environment variable permanently, you can also use the following example.

[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('SuppressAzureRmModulesRetiringWarning', 'true', [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::User)