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Reconcile Tag Names Across Azure

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AnthonyWatherston
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Jun 06, 2022
During a recent cost optimization workshop with a customer, they mentioned that although they had some tagging policies in place there was no consistency of tag names across the Azure environment. Th...
Updated Jun 05, 2022
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MatthewMcDonald_ews
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Sep 11, 2023

What is the purpose of the following code?  Why would we remove a tag that is correct?  Fortunately this case never evaluated to true in my case so my existing correct tags were left alone.

elseif (!($tag.Name -in $tagCorrections)) {
     Write-Output "Correct Tag already exists"
     $obj = [PsCustomObject]@{
          id      = $id.ResourceId
          action  = "Remove"
          tagName = $tag.Name
     }
     $actions += $obj
}