Az.Accounts 5.3.2 and 5.3.3 fail to work with PS 5.1 in Azure Automation runbook

[MSNina123456]

Description

Connect-Az.Accounts fails in PS 5.1 with Az.Accounts 5.3.2 or 5.3.3 for cloud jobs

Connect-AzAccount : Method 'GetTokenAsync' in type 'Azure.Identity.ManagedIdentityCredential' from assembly 'Azure.Identity, Version=1.13.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=92742159e12e44c8' does not have an implementation. At line:5 char:1 + Connect-AzAccount -Identity + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : CloseError: (:) [Connect-AzAccount], TypeLoadException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Profile.ConnectAzureRmAccountCommand

The issue is reproduceable with Az.Accounts 5.3.2 and 5.3.3, same command works well with PS 7.4 in same Automation account

Issue script & Debug output

Directory: C:\usr\src\PSModules
ModuleType Version    Name                                ExportedCommands                                              
---------- -------    ----                                ----------------                                              
Script     5.3.3      Az.Accounts                         {Disable-AzDataCollection, Disable-AzContextAutosave, Enabl...

    Directory: C:\AzAt\Modules\11.2.0


ModuleType Version    Name                                ExportedCommands                                              
---------- -------    ----                                ----------------                                              
Script     2.15.0     Az.Accounts                         {Disable-AzDataCollection, Disable-AzContextAutosave, Enabl...

    Directory: C:\usr\src\PSModules


ModuleType Version    Name                                ExportedCommands                                              
---------- -------    ----                                ----------------                                              
Script     9.6.0      Az.Storage                          {Add-AzRmStorageContainerLegalHold, Add-AzStorageAccountMan...

    Directory: C:\AzAt\Modules\11.2.0


ModuleType Version    Name                                ExportedCommands                                              
---------- -------    ----                                ----------------                                              
Script     6.1.0      Az.Storage                          {Add-AzRmStorageContainerLegalHold, Add-AzStorageAccountMan...


Name                           Value                                                                                    
----                           -----                                                                                    
PSVersion                      5.1.17763.8385                                                                           
PSEdition                      Desktop                                                                                  
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}                                                                  
BuildVersion                   10.0.17763.8385                                                                          
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000                                                                          
WSManStackVersion              3.0                                                                                      
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3                                                                                      
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1                                                                                  




Mode             : Process
ContextDirectory : None
ContextFile      : None
CacheDirectory   : None
CacheFile        : None
KeyStoreFile     : None
Settings         : {[InstallationId, **]}

Environment data

Name                           Value                                                                                    
----                           -----                                                                                    
PSVersion                      5.1.17763.8385                                                                           
PSEdition                      Desktop                                                                                  
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}                                                                  
BuildVersion                   10.0.17763.8385                                                                          
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000                                                                          
WSManStackVersion              3.0                                                                                      
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3                                                                                      
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

Module versions

Az.Accounts 5.3.3 or 5.3.2

Error output

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Here are some similar issues that might help you. Please check if they can solve your problem.

• Random error from Connect-AzAccount using Azure Automation #19576

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Possible solution (Extracted from existing issue, might be incorrect; please verify carefully)

Solution 1:

Normally, 'Method not found' is due to an assembly being loaded but the version is different from the one expected by Az.Accounts. Please add Get-Module after Connect-AzAccount to see whether any other module is loaded before Az.Accounts. Please share the list.

Reference:

• Random error from Connect-AzAccount using Azure Automation #19576 (comment)

Solution 2:

You can change the script into 3 lines and share the output to identify the issue:

Import-Module Az.Accounts
Get-Module
Connect-AzAccount

Reference:

• Random error from Connect-AzAccount using Azure Automation #19576 (comment)

Solution 3:

This seems like a module version conflict issue. Could you provide more info like the subscription ID, account name, runbook name, and job ID for successful and failed instances so that we can check in telemetry which modules are loaded for each case?

Reference:

• Random error from Connect-AzAccount using Azure Automation #19576 (comment)

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[isra-fel]

Quoting from internal chats:

1. Create an Azure Automation Account
2. Create a PowerShell Runbook, selecting the PowerShell-5.1 Runtime environment
3. Add the following line of code to the runbook Connect-AzAccount -identity and choose Publish
4. Start the runbook (This will complete successfully as the default Az.Accounts in the automation account is version 2.15.0
5. Create a new Runtime Environment, selecting PowerShell and 5.1
6. On the Packages tab click Add from Gallery and select Az.Accounts (this will import version 5.3.3)
7. Once your new runtime environment is ready, create a new runbook containing the same code and associate it with this new runtime environment. Publish it and run it.
8. This time it will fail to authenticate returning the error

"Connect-AzAccount : Method 'GetTokenAsync' in type 'Azure.Identity.ManagedIdentityCredential' from assembly 'Azure.Identity, Version=1.13.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=92742159e12e44c8' does not have an implementation. At line:1 char:1 + Connect-AzAccount -identity + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : CloseError: (:) [Connect-AzAccount], TypeLoadException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Profile.ConnectAzureRmAccountCommand"

Note that this problem began with version 5.3.2 and importing version 5.3.1 will work

[isra-fel]

Potentially caused by Azure.Core update - either downgrade Azure.Core or updating Azure.Identity (there are other breaking changes that make this difficult).

[teresaritorto]

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