Cannot see Resource group in Azure portal

Question

Spoiler: I am new to Azure and Azure Powershell.

I started to learn Azure and Azure Powershell and my current self-given excercise was to write a script, which checks if a specifig resource group exist in Azure. If this specific resource group does not exist, then create one. So I started to write this script:

# Exit on error
$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"

# Import module for Azure Rm
Import-Module AzureRM

# Connect with Azure
Connect-AzureRmAccount

# Define name of Resource group we want to create
$ResourceGroupTest = "ResourceGroupForStorageAccount"

# Check if ResourceGroup exists
Get-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name $ResourceGroupTest -ErrorVariable $NotPresent -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

Write-Host "Start to check if Resource group '$($ResourceGroupTest)' exists..."
if ($NotPresent) {
    Write-Host "Resource group with name '$($ResourceGroupTest)' does not exist."

    # Create resource group
    New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name $ResourceGroupTest -Location "West Europe" -Verbose
} else {
    Write-Host "Found Resource group with name '$($ResourceGroupTest)'."
}

Now, when I run this script, I get this sort of output:

Start to check if Resource group 'ResourceGroupForStorageAccount' exists...
Found Resource group with name 'ResourceGroupForStorageAccount'.
Account                      SubscriptionName               Tenant ...
-------                      ----------------               -------- ...
[email protected]            Some subscription              ...

But I cannot find this newly created resource group with name ResourceGroupForStorageAccount in the list of resource groups in the Azure RM portal.

Where is my problem?

Hi kristian, any updates on your issue? does the work for you? — Ivan Yang
@IvanYang After I read your answer the first time, I changed it in my script and rerun it but did not see any changes. Now, some days later, I tried it again, it worked and now I can see the resource group in my Azure Portal. So, thank you for your answer. — devopsfun
It's too weird if not see the resource group after a while after creating it, but it's too glad that it works:). — Ivan Yang

Ivan Yang Ivan Yang · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-29T01:04:53

The value for -ErrorVariable is incorrect, please use NotPresent instead of $NotPresent for the parameter -ErrorVariable. If you use -ErrorVariable $NotPresent, then the $NotPresent is always null/false, so the create resource command never executes.

sample code like below:

#your other code here.

# Check if ResourceGroup exists
Get-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name $ResourceGroupTest -ErrorVariable NotPresent -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

Write-Host "Start to check if Resource group '$($ResourceGroupTest)' exists..."
if ($NotPresent) {
    Write-Host "Resource group with name '$($ResourceGroupTest)' does not exist."

    # Create resource group
    New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name $ResourceGroupTest -Location "West Europe" -Verbose
} else {
    Write-Host "Found Resource group with name '$($ResourceGroupTest)'."
}

Cannot see Resource group in Azure portal

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