[Question]: Why am I getting a Warning about AzureRM?

[sc-mk]

Task name

Azure PowerShell

Task version

5.*

Environment type (Please select at least one enviroment where you face this issue)

• Self-Hosted
• Microsoft Hosted
• VMSS Pool
• Container

Azure DevOps Server type

dev.azure.com (formerly visualstudio.com)

Azure DevOps Server Version (if applicable)

No response

Operation system

Windows Server 2019

Question

Hi,
I run the Inline Script in Azure PowerShell task, I get the following Warning in Pipeline output:
"You're using AzureRM which will be retired soon, please schedule an update."
What is AzureRM in this script, please?

# Stop Azure VMs
Get-AzVM -ResourceGroupName $(ResourceGroupName1) | Stop-AzVM -NoWait -Force
# Get Azure VM status
$vm = Get-AzVM -ResourceGroupName $(ResourceGroupName1) -Status
# Wait for the virtual machines to stop
$expectedStatus = "VM deallocated"

foreach ($vms in $vm) {
    $statuscheck = Get-AzVM -ResourceGroupName $vms.ResourceGroupName -Name $vms.Name -Status 
    while ($statuscheck.Statuses.DisplayStatus[1] -ne $expectedStatus) {  
        Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
        Get-Date -Format "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm.s"
        Write-Output "Stopping virtual machine: $($vms.Name)"
        $statuscheck = Get-AzVM -ResourceGroupName $vms.ResourceGroupName -Name $vms.Name -Status
        Write-Output "Virtual machine state: $($statuscheck.Statuses.DisplayStatus[1])"
    }
    Write-output "Virtual machine $($vms.Name) is already in stopped state."
}

[DmitriiBobreshev]

Hi @mariankral, thank you for the question.
Right now our team is working on switching from AzureRM (which no longer supported from 29/02/2024) to Az. You can find some details in #19843 (comment).
If you'd like to help our team and switch to the new Az you can add environment or pipeline variable RETIRE_AZURERM_POWERSHELL_MODULE and set it to true. This will dismiss this warning and the task will be use only Az package to connect with Azure.

I'm closing the issue as duplicated.