Azure: How to check storage account exists in Azure with Get-AzureStorageAccount

Question

I am building a power shell script to automate the setup of a website environment in Azure. This web uses an account storage. I want to the script not to create the account storage if exists.

I thought that using Get-AzureStorageAccount this way may work but it does not:

Write-Verbose "[Start] creating $Name storage account $Location location"

$storageAcct = Get-AzureStorageAccount –StorageAccountName $Name
if (!$storageAcct)
{   
    $storageAcct = New-AzureStorageAccount -StorageAccountName $Name -Location $Location -Verbose
    if ($storageAcct)
    {
        Write-Verbose "[Finish] creating $Name storage account in $Location location"
    }
    else
    {
        throw "Failed to create a Windows Azure storage account. Failure in New-AzureStorage.ps1"
    }
}
else
{
    Write-Verbose "$Name storage account in $Location location already exists, skipping creation"
}

The issue is I don't know how to handle the return of Get-AzureStorageAccount.

Thank you very much in advance!

Answer 1

I would suggest using the Test-AzureName cmdlet to determine if it exists. So, something like this.

if (!(Test-AzureName -Storage $Name))
{  
    Write-Host "Creating Storage Account $Name"
    New-AzureStorageAccount -StorageAccountName $Name -Location $Location 
}

You can use Test-AzureName for other services too, such as Cloud Services, WebSites, and ServiceBus. It returns True if it exists, False otherwise.

Answer 2

Get-AzureRmStorageAccountNameAvailability -Name "accountname"