Unable to create azure bot service using powershell

Question

I am trying to create a bot service using command New-AzureRmResource

i have a resourcegroup create - testRG

properties:

@{
    Location = "global"
    Properties        = @{
    MsaAppId = <<appid>>}
    ResourceName   = "test"
    ResourceType   = "Microsoft.BotService/botServices/"
    ResourceGroupName = "testRG"
    Force             = $true
}

but i keep getting the following error:

InvalidBotData : Name: Name is required.

I tried adding 'Name' field to properties but that fails with the same error

I also tried using New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment with same details in my template file but i get the same error:

New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment : 1:33:48 PM - Resource Microsoft.BotService/botServices '...' failed with message 
{
    "error": {
        "code": "InvalidBotData",
        "message": "Name: Name is required. "
    }
}

how can I directly create a bot service using powershell/any other scripting language without having to go to azure portal?

Are you setting the -Properties as hashtable? It says here (docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/azurerm.resources/…) it expects a PSObject. — Theo
@Theo PSObject is the object of powershell. It's a generic that could take anything. — Maximilian Burszley
@TheIncorrigible1 I think the function is not expecting a property called Name, but it wants to find the NAMES of the properties. The OP shows Hashtable and the docs say that New-AzureRmResource expects a PSObject in its -Properties. I think it enumerates the names/values of the properties like with $obj.PSObject.Properties. A PSObject has Name and Value. A Hastable uses Key and Value. Hence perhaps the criptic error message. Wouldn't hurt to try $psProps = New-Object PSObject -Property @{...} and use this with New-AzureRmResource -Properties $psProps ... — Theo

Joy Wang-MSFT Joy Wang-MSFT · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-23T06:53:05

You could use azure CLI to create a bot. Enable the Azure CLI bot extension and create a new bot.

Please refer to the command below.

az bot create --resource-group "my-resource-group" --name "my-bot-name" --kind "my-resource-type" --description "description-of-my-bot"

I use the command to create a web type bot, it works fine on my side.

Check it in the portal.

For more details about the properties, refer to this link.

Unable to create azure bot service using powershell

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