Azure Cmdlets: String was not recognized as a valid Boolean

Question

I am using Start-AzureWebsite (as well as Stop-AzureWebsite) azure powershell cmdlet to start azure website. It was working for about 3 months and stopped working 2 days ago (January 31, 2014) (without any changes to environment). Now both cmdlets crash with the error below:

C:\> Start-AzureWebsite -Name mywebsite
Start-AzureWebsite : String was not recognized as a valid Boolean.
At line:1 char:1
+ Start-AzureWebsite -Name mywebsite
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : CloseError: (:) [Start-AzureWebsite], FormatException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Commands.Websites.StartAzureWebsiteCommand

I have tried to run it under different account & on different machines but without success. I also tried to install the latest version of azure sdk.

Please let me know if you have suggestions regarding this issue.

-Petro

Answer 1

Since you have tried different machines, it seems to be an Azure side issue.

I can't repro this problem with my account, but I have two suggestions:

1) Have you tried to start the service manually with the windows azure management portal?

2) Since the issue happened at the end of the month, could it be a problem of billing? (or something similar)