{"id":319,"date":"2014-11-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/11\/20\/powertip-set-default-storage-account-for-powershell-cmdlets-in-azure\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:37:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:37:02","slug":"powertip-set-default-storage-account-for-powershell-cmdlets-in-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-set-default-storage-account-for-powershell-cmdlets-in-azure\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Set Default Storage Account for PowerShell Cmdlets in Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to define the default storage account to be used with the Azure PowerShell cmdlets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How do I tell Azure which media or storage account I&#039;d like to use when I create a virtual machine?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use&nbsp;<b>Get-AzureStorageAccount<\/b>&nbsp;to access the names of your storage accounts, and <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;then use&nbsp;<b>Set-AzureSubscription<\/b>&nbsp;to define your current default for the cmdlets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\">The following example sets the first account as the default in the subscription called&nbsp;<b>&#039;HSG Azure Subscription&#039;<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$StorageAccount=(Get-AzureStorageAccount)[0].label<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Set-AzureSubscription &ndash;SubscriptionName &#039;HSG Azure Subscription&#039; <br \/>&ndash;CurrentStorageAccountName $StorageAccount<span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to define the default storage account to be used with the Azure PowerShell cmdlets. &nbsp;How do I tell Azure which media or storage account I&#039;d like to use when I create a virtual machine? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;Get-AzureStorageAccount&nbsp;to access the names of your storage accounts, and &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;then use&nbsp;Set-AzureSubscription&nbsp;to define your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to define the default storage account to be used with the Azure PowerShell cmdlets. &nbsp;How do I tell Azure which media or storage account I&#039;d like to use when I create a virtual machine? &nbsp;Use&nbsp;Get-AzureStorageAccount&nbsp;to access the names of your storage accounts, and &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;then use&nbsp;Set-AzureSubscription&nbsp;to define your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}