New-AzureAutomationCertificate
Creates an Azure Automation certificate.
Note
The cmdlets referenced in this documentation are for managing legacy Azure resources that use Service Management APIs. See the Az PowerShell module for cmdlets to manage Azure Resource Manager resources.
Syntax
New-AzureAutomationCertificate
-Name <String>
[-Description <String>]
[-Password <SecureString>]
-Path <String>
[-Exportable]
-AutomationAccountName <String>
[-Profile <AzureSMProfile>]
[<CommonParameters>] Description
Important
This PowerShell command for Azure Automation is longer supported as of 01/23/2020. The Azure Service Management model is deprecated for Azure Automation and was disabled on that date. Please use the commands which support the Azure Resource Management model in Az.Automation.
The New-AzureAutomationCertificate cmdlet creates a certificate in Microsoft Azure Automation. You provide the path to a certificate file to upload.
Examples
Example 1: Create a certificate
PS C:\> $password = ConvertTo-SecureString "PassWord!" -AsPlainText -Force
PS C:\> New-AzureAutomationCertificate -AutomationAccountName "Contoso17" -Name "MyCertificate" -Path "./cert.pfx" -Password $passwordThese commands create a certificate in Azure Automation named MyCertificate. The first command creates the password for the certificate file that is used in the second command that creates the certificate.
Parameters
-AutomationAccountName
Specifies the name of the Automation account the certificate will be stored in.
| Type: | String |
| Position: | Named |
| Default value: | None |
| Required: | True |
| Accept pipeline input: | True |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |
-Description
Specifies a description for the certificate.
| Type: | String |
| Position: | Named |
| Default value: | None |
| Required: | False |
| Accept pipeline input: | True |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |
-Exportable
Indicates the certificate can be exported.
| Type: | SwitchParameter |
| Position: | Named |
| Default value: | None |
| Required: | False |
| Accept pipeline input: | True |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |
-Name
Specifies a name for the certificate.
| Type: | String |
| Position: | Named |
| Default value: | None |
| Required: | True |
| Accept pipeline input: | True |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |
-Password
Specifies the password for the certificate file.
| Type: | SecureString |
| Position: | Named |
| Default value: | None |
| Required: | False |
| Accept pipeline input: | True |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |
-Path
Specifies the path to a script file to upload. The file can be .cer or .pfx.
| Type: | String |
| Position: | Named |
| Default value: | None |
| Required: | True |
| Accept pipeline input: | True |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |
-Profile
Specifies the Azure profile from which this cmdlet reads. If you do not specify a profile, this cmdlet reads from the local default profile.
| Type: | AzureSMProfile |
| Position: | Named |
| Default value: | None |
| Required: | False |
| Accept pipeline input: | False |
| Accept wildcard characters: | False |