PowerShell error “Run Login-AzureRmAccount to login.” in AzureRM when already logged in

Usually when I’m writing PowerShell scripts I do it from a development virtual machine with a known environment state. However, yesterday I was trying to do something simple and quick and was writing it on my everyday laptop.

My script was using Windows Management Framework 5.0 and I was creating a new burn environment in AzureRM. I was authenticated and could query and enumerate most of my AzureRM environment, however I was getting erroneous responses on some cmdlets and was unable to create a new resource group. Essentially whenever I tried to perform anything of value to what I was trying to achieve PowerShell would return ”Run Login-AzureRmAccount to login.”

I was authenticated and all looks as it should.

Query ARM RG and get the error, ”Run Login-AzureRmAccount to login.”

I started digging to find out what my environment was looking like. Did I have WMF5 installed?  $PSVersionTable showed I did and all looked as it should.

What modules did I have installed? Get-InstalledModule | Out-GridView

Lots of differing versions is what I saw *Note: screenshot above is after resolving my issue.

So what fixed my issue? I ran Update-Module and watched PowerShell update my modules and get my environment back into spec. A restart of my laptop and back in action.

What caused my issue? I’m thinking I updated an individual module at some point and dependencies were missed.

Hope this helps someone else and saves some of those “this should just be working, why isn’t it” moments.