[Question]: AzureRM modules in ADO agent，AzureRM should be retired

[Alex-AZPS]

Task name

AzureRM modules are still widely used in ADO agent and should be retired

Task version

Azure PowerShell 6.X.0

Environment type (Please select at least one enviroment where you face this issue)

• Self-Hosted
• Microsoft Hosted
• VMSS Pool
• Container

Azure DevOps Server type

dev.azure.com (formerly visualstudio.com)

Azure DevOps Server Version (if applicable)

No response

Operation system

Windows

Question

We learned from customer interviews that one branch uses an ADO agent (I assume this applies to all managed agents) that still has AzureRM modules.
Not only that, we have publicly announced that AzureRM is retired (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/azurerm-retirement-overview?view=azps-13.1.0), these modules have reached the end of their useful life, and this situation may cause several issues, including security related issues.

We hope to work with Azure Devops to inform users that they can retire AzureRM.

[EshitaD]

Hi @Alex-AZPS, we are currently disabling FF for AzureRM modules, and it will be completed by the 12th of this month.

[mikebijl]

I think we are running into issues because of this right now...

##[debug]Get Azure Endpoint
##[debug]USE_MSAL=true
##[debug]MSAL - USE_MSAL override is found: true
Wrapper Execution Failed: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'retrieveSecret')
Error Stack: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'retrieveSecret')
    at Object.getEndpointAuthorizationScheme (/home/vsts/work/_tasks/*****/node_modules/azure-pipelines-tasks-azure-arm-rest/node_modules/azure-pipelines-task-lib/task.js:447:32)
    at AzureRMEndpoint.<anonymous> (/home/vsts/work/_tasks/*****/node_modules/azure-pipelines-tasks-azure-arm-rest/azure-arm-endpoint.js:52:45)
    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
    at /home/vsts/work/_tasks/*****/node_modules/azure-pipelines-tasks-azure-arm-rest/azure-arm-endpoint.js:8:71
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at __awaiter (/home/vsts/work/_tasks/*****/node_modules/azure-pipelines-tasks-azure-arm-rest/azure-arm-endpoint.js:4:12)
    at AzureRMEndpoint.getEndpoint (/home/vsts/work/_tasks/*****/node_modules/azure-pipelines-tasks-azure-arm-rest/azure-arm-endpoint.js:32:16)
    at /home/vsts/work/_tasks/*****/dist/wrapper.js:2:1490785
    at /home/vsts/work/_tasks/*****/dist/wrapper.js:2:1490824
Error Name: TypeError
Full Error: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'retrieveSecret')

Can someone confirm that this is happening because of the decommision? If we hardcode the older version of the package:

• "azure-pipelines-task-lib"
• "azure-pipelines-tasks-azure-arm-rest"

it is still working. This looks like the ARM backend is still accepting "old" calls but now the package to get the secret of the service connection and authenticate to azure with it is not working anymore