While working on AzureAD (Azure Active Directory) with PowerShell module I was received below errors and my scripts where failing. I updated AzureAD module with Update-Module command to latest one but it was still throwing errors. After few testing I checked PowerShell version, it was latest PowerShell Core version 7.1.3 and found AzureAD module is not compatible with it.
❯ Import-Module AzureAD ❯ Connect-AzureAD Connect-AzureAD: One or more errors occurred. (Could not load type 'System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256Cng' from assembly 'System.Core, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.): Could not load type 'System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256Cng' from assembly 'System.Core, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'. Connect-AzureAD: One or more errors occurred. (Could not load type 'System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256Cng' from assembly 'System.Core, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.) Connect-AzureAD: Could not load type 'System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256Cng' from assembly 'System.Core, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'. Connect-AzureAD: One or more errors occurred. (Could not load type 'System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256Cng' from assembly 'System.Core, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.): Could not load type 'System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256Cng' from assembly 'System.Core, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'. ❯ $PSVersionTable
As I found AzureAD is not compatible with PowerShell v7.x.x, Next step In order to use AzureAD module I opened PowerShell Desktop version 5.1 and Installed AzureAD module on it from online PSGallary. Then loaded/Imported module into PowerShell and tested connecting to Azure Active Directory, It succeeded. To check further fetched one user details from AzureAD all was good.
❯ $PSVersionTable PSVersion: 5.1 ❯ Install-Module AzureAD -Scope CurrentUser Untrusted Repository You are installing the modules from an untrusted repository. If you trust this repository, change its InstallationPolicy value by running the Set-PSRepository cmdlet. Are you sure you want to install the module from 'PSGallary'? [Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "N"): Y ❯ Import-Module AzureAD ❯ Connect-AzureAD Account Environment TenantID TenantDomain AccountType ------- ----------- -------- ------------ ----------- janvi AzureCloud 3b80xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx vcloud-lab.com User ❯ Get-AzureADUser -Filter "DisplayName eq 'janvi'" ObjectId DisplayName UserPrincipalName UserType -------- ----------- ----------------- -------- 38638e40-4971-xxxx-971d-2ee1f40724eb Janvi janvi@vcloud-lab.com Member
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