Bad error with New-AzureResourceGroup when TemplateFile is not found

[wadewegner]

I was running the following command ...

New-AzureResourceGroup -Name $name -Location $location -TemplateFile $templateFile -siteName $siteName -hostingPlanName $hostingPlanName -siteLocation $location -Force

... and received an error that took awhile to understand:

New-AzureResourceGroup : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'siteName'.
At C:\Projects\Github\WadeWegner\azure-go-lang-site-extension\scripts\Deploy.ps1:17 char:84
+ ...  $templateFile -siteName $siteName -hostingPlanName $hostingPlanName -siteLocati ...

When I removed the unknown parameters only then did it give this error:

New-AzureResourceGroup : Could not find file 'C:\Windows\system32\Template.json'.
At C:\Projects\Github\WadeWegner\azure-go-lang-site-extension\scripts\Deploy.ps1:17 char:1
+ New-AzureResourceGroup -Name $name -Location $location -TemplateFile $templateFi ...

Turns out, using the Windows PowerShell ISE, I was in the wrong directory and it couldn't fine the $templateFile.

It would be nice if the cmdlets raised on error on the missing TemplateFile rather than erroring on an unknown parameter.

[markcowl]

Thank you for reporting this, we are considering this fix for a future release

[ravbhatnagar]

The template deployment related params have been removed from this cmdlet.

Thanks for the feedback! We are routing this to the appropriate team for follow-up. cc @rthorn17