For several tasks related to Azure services, you need to specify the tenant ID and secret of an Azure Active Directory application in order to implement proper authentication. This post provides you with a PowerShell sample for creating such an Azure AD application.
# Sign in to Azure. Login-AzureRmAccount # If your Azure account is on a non-public cloud, make sure to specify the proper environment # example for the German cloud: # Login-AzureRmAccount -EnvironmentName AzureGermanCloud # If you have multiple subscriptions, uncomment and set to the subscription you want to work with: # $subscriptionId = "11111111-aaaa-bbbb-cccc-222222222222" # Set-AzureRmContext -SubscriptionId $subscriptionId # Provide these values for your new Azure AD app: # $appName is the display name for your app, must be unique in your directory # $uri does not need to be a real URI # $secret is a password you create $appName = "yourappname" $uri = "http://yourappname" $secret = "yoursecret" # Create the Azure AD app $azureAdApplication = New-AzureRmADApplication -DisplayName $appName -HomePage $Uri -IdentifierUris $Uri -Password $secret # Create a Service Principal for the app $svcprincipal = New-AzureRmADServicePrincipal -ApplicationId $azureAdApplication.ApplicationId # Assign the Contributor RBAC role to the service principal # If you get a PrincipalNotFound error: wait 15 seconds, then rerun the following until successful $roleassignment = New-AzureRmRoleAssignment -RoleDefinitionName Contributor -ServicePrincipalName $azureAdApplication.ApplicationId.Guid # Display the values for your application Write-Output "Save these values for using them in your application" Write-Output "Subscription ID:" (Get-AzureRmContext).Subscription.SubscriptionId Write-Output "Tenant ID:" (Get-AzureRmContext).Tenant.TenantId Write-Output "Application ID:" $azureAdApplication.ApplicationId.Guid Write-Output "Application Secret:" $secret
Sample output:
Subscription ID: 11111111-aaaa-bbbb-cccc-222222222222 Tenant ID: 72f988bf-86f1-41af-91ab-2d7cd011db47 Application ID: 54c45a1a-5c1a-40ad-88b6-a37e82223eda Application Secret: yoursecret