No default subscription has been designated. Use Select-AzureSubscription -Default <subscriptionName> to set the default subscription

Question

I’m keep getting the above error when trying to execute Start-AzureService.

Following information prompted when executing Get-AzureAccount:

Id                    Type Subscriptions                        Tenants                               
--                    ---- -------------                        -------                               
[email protected] User   12345678-1234-5678-9012-345678901235 {12345678-1234-5678-9012-345678901235} 

And following information prompted when executing Get-AzureSubscription:

SubscriptionId            : 12345678-1234-5678-9012-345678901235
SubscriptionName          : My Production (Pay-As-You-Go)
Environment               : MyCloud
DefaultAccount            : [email protected]
IsDefault                 : True
IsCurrent                 : True
TenantId                  : 12345678-1234-5678-9012-345678901235
CurrentStorageAccountName :  


Select-AzureSubscription : Parameter set cannot be resolved using the specified named parameters.

is prompted when When I try to follow the suggested command:

Select-AzureSubscription -Default "My Production (Pay-As-You-Go)"

Answer 1

When I tried to Select-AzureSubscription it was giving me the error "Subscription does not exist" when I was passing 100% correct subscription name or subscription Id that I found on Azure portal and from powershell:

$account = Login-AzureRmAccount
$account.Context.Subscription.SubscriptionId
$account.Context.Subscription.SubscriptionName

Adding Azure account fixed the problem for me:

Add-AzureAccount

Answer 2

Use this one to select your default subscription:

Select-AzureSubscription -Default -SubscriptionName "My Production (Pay-As-You-Go)"

You can also choose to use -SubscriptionId (and the GUID) instead of the name.

For more information on the Select-AzureSubscription commandlet; type Get-Help Select-AzureSubscription .

If this doesn't work, try running first, before selecting your subscription:

 Add-AzureAccount 

Update if you're still facing trouble:

If you are using AzureRM / with old cmdlets (or just AzureRM) and are still facing problems I would strongly recommend you to check if you have multiple versions of AzureRM.Profile module . I've encountered this numerous times when one version is installed under Program Files and another under my user profile (or somewhere else in PSModulePath).

To list what modules / versions are installed :

Get-Module AzureRm.Profile -ListAvailable

If you have multiple instances and versions of this it might create some trouble with some of your cmdlets.