az vm create fails with error VMCustomization is not enabled

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Describe the bug

Following basic how to on creating vms from command line doesn’t work, and preview feature doesn’t appear in azure. https://app.pluralsight.com/course-player?clipId=4924ba21-099c-42e1-8683-a131b1f5e442

Closest thing I found is this signup page, which doesn’t really help much: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR3_Cn0JTTIxChanY12UDdkpUMDNRRFdHSTRUMU1OUjBTSkw0MFFIRThFRi4u&web=1&wdLOR=c82F6F682-783D-477D-B824-BF81D3A7C7D3

Command Name az vm create

Errors:

{"status":"Failed","error":{"code":"DeploymentFailed","message":"At least one resource deployment operation failed. Please list deployment operations for details. Please see https://aka.ms/DeployOperations for usage details.","details":[{"code":"BadRequest","message":"{\r\n  \"error\": {\r\n    \"code\": \"BadRequest\",\r\n    \"message\": \"'VMCustomization' is not enabled for the Subscription. Please register the Subscription for 'Microsoft.Compute/VMCustomizationPreview' to use the feature.\"\r\n  }\r\n}"}]}}

To Reproduce:

Steps to reproduce the behavior. Note that argument values have been redacted, as they may contain sensitive information.

az login az group create az vm create --resource-group “psdemo-rg-2” --name “psdemo-win-cli” --image “win2019datacenter” --admin-username “demoadmin” --admin-password “<snip>” --public-ip-sku Standard

Expected Behavior

creates a vm

Environment Summary

Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
Python 3.8.9
Installer: MSI

azure-cli 2.33.0

Additional Context

[bertneef]

2.33.0 is currently the active version in azure cloud shell as well, hope the upcoming hotfix will be pushed there as well.

[gjolly]

The easiest workaround is to downgrade to the previous version. On Ubuntu/Debian, users can check what the previous version was with apt-cache policy azure-cli and downgrade apt install azure-cli=$VERSION.

They can also pin this version for now:

cat << EOF > /etc/apt/preferences.d/99-azure-cli
Package: azure-cli
Pin: version $VERSION
Pin-Priority: 999
EOF

But they will have to remove this file when a fixed package gets released.