Deployment fails when the password contains a special character

[mcooley]

The deploy.ps1 script passes a "botAppPassword" value to Azure CLI during deployment. The auto-generated password can contain quote ', ampersand &, and other special characters. When these special characters are present, there are unexpected errors during deployment.

Some of the symptoms I saw included errors like (password fragement) is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. and The system cannot find the path specified.

Azure CLI in PowerShell generally has issues quoting parameter values, as described here. That documentation mentions that one solution might be to format the parameters as JSON and use file input.

[SubbaReddi]

@mcooley: I don't see possibility to generate secret key value with special characters quote ', and ampersand &.
It contains majorly following characters only: ., -, _, ~

Based on following reference, some special characters were removed. So, can you confirm if you are able to generate new secret value with quote and ampersand.

[mcooley]

I did some more research, and passwords generated with special characters was a bug in Azure CLI.

Updating Azure CLI to the latest version fixed the issue.