Azure Cli how to change subscription default

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I have 3 subscription in my Azure Account, I need to change the default subscription. When i Run the command:

azure account list

I have this output:

I have tried to change the default or current subscription on this way, with no results...

azure config set subscription {{MyIdSubscription}}

Any ideas? Thanks.

An important tip! Be careful mixing Azure Shell and Powershell - eg. "az login" and "Connect-AzAccount" If you use "az login" it will not reflect on commands like Get-AzContext. So if you have powershell scripts that depend on Get-AzContext they'll fail. — dbroggy, Jun 23 '20 at 21:07

score 309 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 06 '17 at 20:04

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For Azure CLI 2.0 (preview) I had to use

az account set --subscription <name or id>

answered Jan 06 '17 at 20:04

Ida

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If you have just recently updated from 'Free Trial` to Pay-As-You-Go you may need to `az logout && az login` again to see the current subscriptions. Otherwise it won't know about your changed subscriptions. – Holger Brandl Nov 28 '18 at 10:50
Let me add only that if you want to set the default subscription in a bash script using a variable like AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION="MyAzureSubscription", you've to use the command az account set --subscription "${AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION}" to avoid some bash errors...you cannot evaulate it directly as az account set --subscription $AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION – Leo Sep 23 '20 at 12:04
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If you want to know the subscription id use the command `az account list` and from the output use the `id` entry. – Soundararajan Jan 28 '21 at 05:26

score 32 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 13 '18 at 19:29

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Please try the following:

azure account set -s {Subscription Id}

That should change the subscription.

edited Sep 13 '18 at 19:29

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answered Jul 20 '16 at 07:45

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Will it be also changing the subscription on the UI , in case a person is a part of multiple subscription ? – tushar_sappal Aug 29 '17 at 09:38
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I had to use `az` instead of `azure` – Pat Myron Mar 14 '19 at 18:33

score 23 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 14 '20 at 14:48

1. List all the subscriptions you have

    az account list --output table
    
      Name             CloudName     SubscriptionId     State     IsDefault
    ---------------   ------------  ----------------  ---------  ----------
    AssociateProd      AzureCloud    xxxxxxxxxxxx       Enabled    False

2. Pick the subscription you want and use it in the command below.

    az account set --subscription <subscription_id>

Karthikeyan VK · Answer 4 · 2021-01-22T03:42:51.973

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Use id (subscription id) that is GUID, which will be listed when you did az login

And then execute the below command..

az account set --subscription fffde5cb-cccc-aaaa-eee-457c3292608e

edited Jan 22 '21 at 03:42

answered Sep 09 '18 at 11:32

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`az login` is mandatory, before the `az account set -s` command even works! Thx :) – jonashackt Jan 18 '21 at 15:30

score 8 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 24 '19 at 07:30

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Try in this way.it worked for me to set Azure PowerShell to a specific Azure Subscription

Set-AzContext -SubscriptionId "t666-e251-49ce-a1cd-5c3144"

answered Sep 24 '19 at 07:30

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Note: `Set-AzContext` is Azure Powershell cmdlet, not Az CLI. – Rajesh Swarnkar Jan 16 '23 at 07:51

score 7 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 17 '22 at 15:26

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Azure CLI latest (2.39.0):

az account set (--name or -n) <name>

az account set (--subscription or -s) <id>

answered Aug 17 '22 at 15:26

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MeneerBij · Answer 7 · 2022-11-07T14:32:44.113

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I have created a wrapper around the Azure-CLI for this in a PiP Package, with colors.

pip install azure-account-switcher

note: it's dependent on azure-cli which downloads a lot of dependencies. So you should install in environment with azure-cli already present.

edited Nov 07 '22 at 14:32

answered Nov 07 '22 at 14:24

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