Cloud Management Gateway, Resource Groups & Tags
Recently w hile working on an implementation project for CMG, I came across an issue which I had never dealt with before. I had taken care of the usual pre-requisites, but nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to experience. While creating the Cloud Management Gateway Service, I got the following error. This didn’t make sense as I ensured that I have Contributor access to the resource group prior to initiating the configuration. SmsAdminUI.log logged some errors. This got me looking into the activity of the resource group and I verified that there was indeed an Azure policy blocking the creation of the objects. I matched the definition id and was able to identify the policy in question. It was no other than, but the policy of Tags. Classic providers within Azure don’t support tags. While CMG uses Azure Resource Manager framework, it still uses classic service providers for creating cloud objects. Mainly ClassicCompu...