Azure Cmdlets: The row was not recognized as a valid logical

Question

I am using Start-AzureWebsite (as well as Stop-AzureWebsite) azure powershell to launch an azure website. He worked for about 3 months and stopped working 2 days ago (January 31, 2014) (without any changes in the 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 tried to run it under a different account and on different machines, but to no avail. I also tried installing the latest version of azure sdk.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions on this issue.

-Petro

Answer 1

Since you tried different machines, this seems to be a problem with Azure.

I cannot reproduce this problem with my account, but I have two suggestions:

1) Have you tried to start the service manually using the azure window management portal?

2) Since the problem arose at the end of the month, could this be a billing problem? (or something similar)

Answer 2

Powershell cmdlets, such as APIs, use certificates to authenticate with Windows Azure. Check if the Management Certificate is available in a subscription to Windows Azure and that it has not expired.