Question

Is it possible to mange an azure account within code? Like

var ac = new AzureAccount(name, password);
ac.CreateStorageAccount(name);
ac.CreateCoAdmin(name);
...

I already know about the Azure cmdlets, but that doesn’t help.

Answer 1

You’ll need to look at the Service Management API. There is an operation that allows you to create a storage account for example (comes with a C# example): Create Storage Account.

Adding a co-admin on the other hand won’t be that simple. I believe there’s support in the Service Management API to manage co-admins. If this is really important to you you can try to look at how the portal does it. You’ll see that it executes 2 requests to add a co-admin to a subscription:

1. Call https://manage.windowsazure.com/Users/GetPrincipalId with the email address of the new admin. This will return a “LiveID” (like 00053ACD9A5B316C).
2. Call https://manage.windowsazure.com/Users/AddCoAdministrator with the email address, the LiveId, and information about the subscription to add the user.

This isn’t documented and before even calling these services you’ll need to manage authentication first.