Azure PowerShell Commands For Web App

In this article we will go step by step to Create, Remove, Name Reserved (or not) and run the Web App using Azure PowerShell on Microsoft Azure.

Prerequisites

Microsoft Azure Subscription (MSDN subscribers or sign up for one month free trial)
Windows PowerShell
To Download PowerShell Click here.

You will learn

About PowerShell Tool
How to Create Web App using PowerShell
How to Remove Web App using PowerShell
Check Web App Name reserved or not
Run Web App using PowerShell command

Step 1: Install PowerShell on System.

Step 2: After installation, Open search box and search for Windows PowerShell,

There are two type of Windows PowerShell available:

Windows PowerShell – Command Line
Windows PowerShell – Execute the PowerShell script such as .ps file. GUI version of Windows PowerShell.

Windows PowerShell ISE version

Step 3: Add Azure Subscription with PowerShell,

Add-AzureAccount

Enter your Azure Subscription credentials.

Few more commands for Azure account details.

Get-AzureAccount

List all the associate Azure Subscription with Id, Type, Subscriptions and Tenants,

Get-AzureSubscription

List all the associate Azure Subscriptions with all details such as SubscriptionId, SubscriptionName, Account, etc.

If there is only one subscription associate no problem but if more than one Azure account is there we need to set default azure accounts for all operations.

Select-AzureSubscription –SubscriptionId “paste-subscription-id-here”

Check for default subscription

Get-AzureSubscription -Default

Step 4: Create New Web App

New-AzureWebsite PowerShellWebApp01

There is one problem; by default web app will create in “Southeast Asia” so we need to add location command when we are creating the web app.

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