New-AzureStorageAccount : Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. Parameter name: parameters.Name

Recently I have been working on automating deploying an IaaS infrastructure on Azure.. Part of this required me creating my storage accounts.  The automation would allow users to add or remove storage accounts in a list and create them all in one bunch.  I am doing this through a XAML form.  What I found is people would enter in capitol letters.  If you are not familiar with creating storage accounts, when you create them in the portal you can only specify lowercase letters and numbers, this is the same with the New-AzureStorageAccount cmdlet.

To get around this, in your script you can use Regex Replace and .ToLower to convert the value to lowercase and numbers and letters only.  Where below $sa is an object that I store my values like StorageAccountName, Label, Description and AffinityGroup.

$StorageAccountName = [Regex]::Replace($sa.Name.ToLower(), '[^(a-z0-9)]', '')

Comments

• Anonymous
  December 12, 2014
  Thanks! This helped me.
• Anonymous
  September 16, 2015
  This is helpful!
• Anonymous
  February 17, 2016
  Ran into this exact problem deploying from ARM template. Interesting that the ARM template auto-generates the storage account name with upper-case letters...