[Question]: Can AzurePowerShell@5 be configured to display the warnings on the Azure pipeline run summary page?

[Luke-Azuma]

Task name

AzurePowerShell@5

Task version

5

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 11 server 2019

Question

Hello, 
Back in May-June this year I had my pipeline suddenly break.
Upon investigation AzurePowerShell@5 had been logging in yellow "WARNING: Upcoming breaking changes in the cmdlet 'Get-AzAccessToken' : The token property of the output type will be changed from String to SecureSTring. Add the [-AsSecureString] switch...".

However, this warning was not displayed on the pipeline run summary, so it went unnoticed until it occurred. 
Perhaps this is using native powershell command, Write-Warning, which does not seem to get reflected on the summary page. In order to be reflected in the run summary, maybe the msg should be more like 'echo "##[warning]Warning message"' and more orange ish.

This task does not seem to have an option to enable showing warnings to the summary page, as opposed to PowerShell@2's showwarnings.

Is there any recommended way to show this warning on the summary page?

[CodersAcademy006]

Azure DevOps only surfaces warnings in the run summary when they are emitted using logging commands (for example, ##[warning]). PowerShell Write-Warning output is expected to remain in the task logs and is not promoted to summary warnings by AzurePowerShell@5.

If you want warnings to appear in the pipeline summary, you can emit them explicitly from your script, e.g.:

Write-Host "##[warning]Upcoming breaking change in Get-AzAccessToken"