The term 'Connect-AzAccount' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet

I was trying to connect to Azure for the first time using power shell the other day and ended up with below error message.

 


Connect-AzAccount : The term 'Connect-AzAccount' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. 

At line:1 char:1 

+ Connect-AzAccount 

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Connect-AzAccount:String) [],
  CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException 

The command I was using to connect was Connect-AzAccount

 

When having such errors, the first thing you must check is if you ran power shell as administrator.

 

 

 

 

 

  

All other commands we're going to run below will only work if you ran power shell as administrator.

If Connect-AzAccount command didn't work even after running it as administrator try below commands to install and import Azure modules.

 

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted 

Install-Module -Name Az -AllowClobber

Import-Module Az


If these commands execute properly now you will be able to use Connect-AzAccount command as well.

But when I ran Install-Module -Name Az -AllowClobber command I got below error.
 

Unable to resolve package source ‘https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2’

To fix this problem run below command to force to use TLS1.2 

protocol[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12

After running above command you should be able to run Install-Module -Name Az -AllowClobber command without any problem.

Don't forget to clear the session once you are done using Clear-AzContext command.