How to use Microsoft (not Organizational) account with Add-AzureAccount? - powershell

Question

I'm trying to use the Add-AzureAccount command that's part of the Azure PowerShell tools (August 2014, v0.8.6), and although various examples on the web lead me to expect that it will let me use either an organizational account or a Microsoft Account to log in, in practice, it seems to be requiring an organizational account.
When I execute the command, it opens a hosted browser window as expected, but the prompt says Sign in with your organizational account followed by a username and password. There seems to be no way to tell it that no, I actually need to use a Microsoft Account.
(As it happens, my email address is associated with both an organizational account, and also a Microsoft Account. This may not be helping.)
I could create a completely separate organizational account in an Azure Active Directory, make that a co-admin, and log in with that, but it seems like this shouldn't be necessary.
Is there some way to force it to offer me both options?

Answer 1

I was able to resolve this problem through trial-and-error. As Paul points out in his post, you can load your subscription info into PowerShell using the following sequence:
1. Get-AzurePublishSettingsFile
This will open a browser to a special page that lets you download your profile settings file.
Note: If you have multiple subscriptions, you must use the dropdown to select the one that contains the Azure components you want to manage. For instance, I have a BizSpark subscription that I use for my own company, and a separate MSDN subscription that my clients use (adding me as an administrator). Both subscriptions show up on my management portal page, so I needed to download 2 separate publishsettings files.
2. Import-AzurePublishSettingsFile my-subscription.publishsettings
In my case, I renamed the settings files to "BizSpark.publishsettings" and "MSDN.publishsettings", so I ran this command twice.
3. Get-AzureSubscription
This will list all of the subscriptions that have been imported into PowerShell, showing the subscription name and the other properties.
4. Select-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName "my-subscription"
You can now use the subscription name to select the subscription you want to use. This allows you to switch back and forth between subscriptions and work with the Azure components you need to manage.

Answer 2

Use #outlook.com instead of the organizational address and you will be directed to the Microsoft Account login.

Answer 3

Azure can be signed up with either Microsoft Account or Organizational Account. Add-AzureAccount will display a message like "Sign in with your organizational account" in the browser window, but actually if you input your Microsoft Account email address into the box and move focus out, the page will redirect to Microsoft Account sign page automatically, and then you can sign in.
Sometimes you may meet some error like "The cache contains multiple tokens satisfying the requirements". You can try to clean all the existing Azure Accounts firstly and then try to sign in again.
To clean up, run Get-AzureAccount | Remove-AzureAccount.

Answer 4

I have a similar problem. Using Add-AzureAccount with my Microsoft Account result in adding my organizational account.
For example I run Add-AzureAccount, in the form I type davideicardi#hotmail.com (my Microsoft account) but the resulted account is davide.icardi#mycompany.com (my organizational account).
I solved by deleting all the Azure account registered on Power Shell (also the one not related to my account, using Remove-AzureAccount), then I have deleted IE cookies (not sure it this is important...), closed the powershell console and executing again Add-AzureAccount.
I suspect that there is a bug somewhere...