Not compatible with Azure CLI (MSI)

[arcotek-ltd]

It looks as though one cannot have AZ PowerShell and AZ CLI (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-windows?view=azure-cli-latest) coexisting on the same PC.

I had AZ CLI installed and working. I installed AZ PowerShell and now, when I run az, I get a load of jibberish. It doesn't matter if I run it in DOS or PowerShell or what command I run. az on its own is enough to produce this.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\Users\VSSADM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-homc4z86\azure-cli\azure\cli\__main__.py", line 32, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\VSSADM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-homc4z86\azure-cli-core\azure\cli\core\__init__.py", line 515, in get_default_cli
  File "C:\Users\VSSADM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-homc4z86\azure-cli-core\azure\cli\core\__init__.py", line 55, in __init__
  File "C:\Users\VSSADM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-homc4z86\azure-cli-core\azure\cli\core\cloud.py", line 305, in get_active_cloud
  File "C:\Users\VSSADM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-homc4z86\azure-cli-core\azure\cli\core\cloud.py", line 294, in get_cloud
  File "C:\Users\VSSADM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-homc4z86\azure-cli-core\azure\cli\core\cloud.py", line 247, in _get_cloud
  File "C:\Users\VSSADM~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-homc4z86\azure-cli-core\azure\cli\core\cloud.py", line 265, in get_clouds
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\lib\configparser.py", line 697, in read
    self._read(fp, filename)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\lib\configparser.py", line 1080, in _read
    raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
configparser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: 'C:\\Users\\john\\.azure\\clouds.config', line: 1
'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'

What is really frustrating is that I can't get AZ CLI to work, even after removing AZ PowerShell, rebooting, reinstall AZ CLI etc.

In theory, one would hope that I could live with just one of them, but I need PowerShell for a plethora of existing code and it seems that Terraform doesn't understand the token created by AZ PowerShell, but is happy with AZ CLI.

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• ID: 65abff75-73f1-3033-d816-e03e0d7fe4ff
• Version Independent ID: 524598ca-76aa-c8f5-cde1-d6bd626b757b
• Content: Introducing the Azure PowerShell Az module
• Content Source: docs-conceptual/azurermps-6.13.0/new-azureps-module-az.md
• Service: azure-powershell
• GitHub Login: @sptramer
• Microsoft Alias: sttramer

[sptramer]

@arcotek-ltd - This sounds like a product issue. Please file a bug report with both the CLI engineering team and Azure PowerShell:

• Azure CLI issues
• Azure PowerShell issues