How to break a lease on Blob Storage in Azure with PowerShell?

Question

How do I break a lease on an item in Blob Storage utilizing PowerShell?

I'm receiving the following when trying to upload something over the current image:

Add-AzureRmVhd : The remote server returned an error: (412) There is currently a lease on the blob and no lease ID was specified in the request..
At line:1 char:1
+ Add-AzureRmVhd -Destination $osDiskUri -LocalFilePath $localFileName  ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : CloseError: (:) [Add-AzureRmVhd], StorageException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Compute.StorageServices.AddAzureVhdCommand

Answer 1

Login to the old portal and navigate to the Virtual Machines then the Images tab the url will be https://manage.windowsazure.com/@yourname.onmicrosoft.com#Workspaces/VirtualMachineExtension/images. Select the image and choose Delete on the bottom.

After that go to your storage and delete it.

You can also try the following which will remove blobs for a given container and then remove the container.

Add-AzureAccount
Get-AzureSubscription | Format-Table SubscriptionName, IsDefault, IsCurrent, CurrentStorageAccountName

$SubscriptionName = 'Your subsscription name'
Select-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $SubscriptionName

Get-AzureSubscription -Default

Get-AzureStorageAccount | Format-Table -Property StorageAccountName, Location, AccountType, StorageAccountStatus

$StorageAccountName = "Your storage account"
$StorageAccountKey = (Get-AzureStorageKey -StorageAccountName $StorageAccountName).Primary
$ContainerName = "Your container name"
$Context = New-AzureStorageContext -StorageAccountName $StorageAccountName -StorageAccountKey $StorageAccountKey

#Get a reference to all the blobs in the container.
$blobs = Get-AzureStorageBlob -Container $ContainerName -Context $Context

#Remove lease on each Blob
$blobs | %{$_.ICloudBlob.BreakLease()}

#Delete blobs in a specified container.
$blobs| Remove-AzureStorageBlob

Remove-AzureStorageContainer -Container $ContainerName -Context $Context

If you want to break a seal on a blob you can use the How to break the locked lease of blob storage in Microsoft Azure (PowerShell)