This blog post helps you recover Azure AD Service Principal information and also explains how to append a new password in order to reuse it.

Some automation scripts/templates sometimes requires the use of Service Principals, as an example, this Avere vFXT deployment guide requires it. Avere vFXT is a Microsoft Storage solution for HPC workloads.

In this deployment example, the following Service Principal information is required in order to deploy Avere vFXT cluster using the aforementioned template solution, Service Principal Tenant Id, App Id and password, please execute the following steps in CloudShell to recover it.

1. If at Service Principal creation time the “–name” was not specified, az ad sp create-for-rbac command creates the service principal with its displayName starting with azure-cli, followed by date and time, in this case you can first obtain the list of service principals and then select one from the output list, if you already know the full displayName, skip to step 2.

2. If you know the exact displayName you can use this commandLine (make sure you change the variable content in the first line)

3. Either commands will output all needed information with exception of the password as follows.

4. Add a new password to the service principal, make sure that the value of –name is the same as the AppDisplayName from the output you obtained from the above queries (password will be appended to the Application associated to the Service Principal and it may or may not match the DisplayName).

5. The following output is all you need to continue your deployment (notice that with exception of the password, the values matches your previous query results):