Another helpful error message out of Azure.
I was trying something out in Azure CLI and attempting the trivial task of creating a resource group with az group create --name parentGroup --location westeurope in a subscription that I’d logged on to with a named account (jonny@domain.com) as opposed to what I normally use, which is the service principal.
Anyway, in the CLI, I was getting the error:
The current subscription type is not permitted to perform operations on any provider namespace. Please use a different subscription.
Mmm. Not enough permissions? Can’t be. Aha. I know, my named account has access to multiple subscriptions.
az account list --output table
Name CloudName SubscriptionId State IsDefault
------------------------------------------- ----------- ------------------------------------ -------- -----------
My Production Subscription AzureCloud XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX Enabled
My DevTest Subscription AzureCloud XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX Enabled True
My Demos AzureCloud XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX Enabled
How to set to one subscription?
az account set --subscription "My Demos"
Retrying the create resource group command worked.
HTH