[Reference feedback]: No such parameter to add serviceManagementReference in az ad sp create-for-rbac

[qjjy29]

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When I run az ad sp create-for-rbac --name myname --create-cert

It shows serviceManagementReference field is required for Create, but is missing in the request.
However, there is no way to add serviceManagementReference in this command.

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Can you add a parameter to add serviceManagementReference?

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[yonzhan]

Thank you for opening this issue, we will look into it.

[jiasli]

It is by design that --service-management-reference is not added to az ad sp create-for-rbac.

--service-management-reference was added to az ad app create/update in #29860. This feature was released with Azure CLI 2.65.0 on 2024-10-08.

Even though az ad sp create-for-rbac automatically creates an application, this command is only used for creating application + service principal that are used to manage Azure resources through RBAC, not for creating general-purpose application. We don’t want to add --service-management-reference to az ad sp command group which will confuse users.

However, we are still reviewing this proposal internally and will give a final conclusion.

[Tonychen0227]

@yonzhan - Azure Docs are outdated - link.

Can someone work to update this?

[jiasli]

--service-management-reference has been added to az ad sp create-for-rbac in #31212.