Login-AzureRmAccount -Credential $cred -TenantId "Tenant ID" command is failing with error AADSTS50034: The user account Microsoft.AzureAD.Telemetry.Diagnostics.PII does not exist.

Question

I am following the steps mentioned in following article:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/40062.azure-automating-login-for-powershell-scripts-using-service-principal.aspx

The Login-AzureRmAccount -Credential $cred -TenantId "Tenant ID" command is failing with error AADSTS50034: The user account Microsoft.AzureAD.Telemetry.Diagnostics.PII does not exist.

Answer 1

@AmandaCH In this case, you are using $cred for application credentials. However, Azure AD is looking for a user account with those credentials. You need to add -ServicePrincipal switch to the command to instruct Azure AD to look for application rather than user account. Below is how the command should look:

Login-AzureRmAccount -ServicePrincipal -Credential $cred -TenantId "Tenant ID"

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