Moveing classic resources (within subscription)

Well – according to the documentation then you can use the portal to move classic resource items around your groups.

“

• Virtual machines (classic) must be moved with the cloud service.
• Cloud service can only be moved when the move includes all its virtual machines.”

…

“To move classic resources to a new resource group within the same subscription, use the standard move operations through the portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, or REST API. You use the same operations as you use for moving Resource Manager resources.”

It even has a nice little picture showing it being done

I had a group with two resources – a VM and its cloud service – but the portal would not allow them to be moved.

So this nice little script does it

# prompt for credentials etc.
Login-AzureRmAccount
# select the correct subscription
Get-AzureRmSubscription -SubscriptionName "Stiona Software General" | Select-AzureRmSubscription
# get the ResourceID property of the two resources - luckily they have the same name in my case
$resources = Get-AzureRmResource -ResourceName fusionreports -ResourceGroupName fusionreports | Select -ExpandProperty ResourceId
# issue a move to the new group
Move-AzureRmResource -DestinationResourceGroupName fusionazure -ResourceId $resources

The $resources this -

/subscriptions/b9fee249-e903-4c4a-ade7-42982be9a20f/resourceGroups/fusionreports/providers/Microsoft.ClassicCompute/domainNa
mes/fusionreports
/subscriptions/b9fee249-e903-4c4a-ade7-42982be9a20f/resourceGroups/fusionreports/providers/Microsoft.ClassicCompute/virtualM
achines/fusionreports

After promt to move the old resource group was empty and the new one contained the vm and cloud service.

Nice hint from stack overflow on the use of  ExpandProperty parameter of Select-Object for getting an array of values from an array of objects.

Man – working with Azure classic sure is tough.