Powershell AzureAD module in Visual Studio Code

Question

I am trying to debug a powershell script in Visual Studio Code but when I try to execute connect-azuread I get this error message:

connect-azuread : The 'connect-azuread' command was found in the module 'AzureAD', but the module could not be loaded. For more information, run 'Import-Module AzureAD'.

When I try to do Import-Module AzureAD, I get this other error:

Import-Module : The current processor architecture is: X86. The module 'C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\azuread\2.0.2.4\azuread.psd1' requires the following architecture: Amd64.

If I switch the terminal from PowerShell Integrated to powershell it works, but when I start debugging my code it goes back to the integrated one.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Are you sure that you installed the 64 bit version of Visual Studio Code? I am not able to replicate the issue, though I am admittedly using AzureAD v2.0.2.26, which is what installed by default from Find-Module -Name AzureAD | Install-Module. — TheMadTechnician

Paolo Barone Paolo Barone · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-26T18:04:52

In the meantime it looks like I managed to fix this by updating the settings to this:

{
"powershell.powerShellExePath": 
    "C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe", "terminal.integrated.shell.windows": 
    "C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe", "terminal.explorerKind": "external"
}

The original version was below and it looks like the SysWow64 version is 32 bit

{
    "powershell.powerShellExePath": "C:\\WINDOWS\\SysWow64\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe",
    "terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe"
}

Powershell AzureAD module in Visual Studio Code

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