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Expand Up @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ This repository contains a set of PowerShell cmdlets for developers and administ
* Cloud Service: CRUD cloud service.
* Windows Azure Stack
* Azure Stack Administration
* Storage Servcie Management
* Storage Service Management


For detail descriptions and examples of the cmdlets, type
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1. Install [Windows Management Framework 5 with PowerShellGet cmdlets](https://www.powershellgallery.com/GettingStarted?section=Get%20Started)
2. In an elevated PowerShell session, run ```Install-Module AzureRM```
3. Run ```Install-AzureRm```
4. Top install RDFE cmdlets, run ```Install-Module Azure```
4. To install RDFE cmdlets, run ```Install-Module Azure```

### Source Code

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## Get Started

In general, following are the steps to start using Microsoft Azure PowerShell
In general, follow these steps to start using Microsoft Azure PowerShell

* Get yourself authenticated with Microsoft Azure. For details, please check out [this article](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/install-configure-powershell/).
* Option 1: Login with your Microsoft account or Organizational account directly from PowerShell. Microsoft Azure Active Directory authentication is used in this case. No management certificate is needed.
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### Microsoft Azure

If you use both mechanisms on the same subscription, Microsoft Azure Active Directory authentication always wins. If you want to go back to management certificate authentication, please use ``Remove-AzureAccount``, which will remove the Microsoft Azure Active Directory information and bring management certificate authentication back in.
If you use both mechanisms on the same subscription, Microsoft Azure Active Directory authentication always wins. If you want to go back to management certificate authentication, please use ```Remove-AzureAccount```, which will remove the Microsoft Azure Active Directory information and bring management certificate authentication back in.

#### Login directly from PowerShell (Microsoft Azure Active Directory authentication)

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All the cmdlets can be put into 3 categories:

1. ARM management cmdlets use the noun 'AzureRm' (New-AzureRmResourceGroup, Get-AzureRmVM)
2. Legacy RDFE management cmdlets use the noun 'Azure' (Get-AzureVM)
3. Data plane cmdlets that work in ARM or RDFE use the noun Azure (Get-AzureBlob)
1. ARM management cmdlets use the 'AzureRm' prefix (New-AzureRmResourceGroup, Get-AzureRmVM)
2. Legacy RDFE management cmdlets use the 'Azure' prefix (Get-AzureVM)
3. Data plane cmdlets that work in ARM or RDFE use the 'Azure' prefix (Get-AzureBlob)


So you can use the following cmdlet to find out all the cmdlets for your environment
You can use the following cmdlet to find out all the cmdlets for your environment

```powershell
# Return all the cmdlets for Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
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