VSTS Release AzureRM Powershell Version

Question

I'm building a extension for VSTS that uses the AzureRM module. On every load we see that the 2.1.0 version gets loaded in a release pipeline in a Hosted agent. To load the AzureRM module we use the module: VstsAzureHelpers_

In that version there seem to be a bug, on some operation we receive the following exception: Exception of type 'Microsoft.Rest.Azure.CloudException' was thrown. on for example this operation: New-AzureRmRoleAssignment

Answer 1

With latest VstsAzureHelpers , it adds azurePsVersion parameter that used to specify the module version, such as 5.1.1.

Snip code:

function Initialize-Azure {
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param( [string] $azurePsVersion )

function Import-AzureModule {
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param(
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
        [ValidateSet('Azure', 'AzureRM')]
        [string[]] $PreferredModule,
        [string] $azurePsVersion)

I recommend that you can refer to AzurePowerShell task (2.*) to update your extension code.