Why am I unable to assign a reader role to subscriptions and/or getting an Access Denied critical error when adding my new Azure Service Principal?

Products

• CloudHealth

Issue/Introduction

This is usually due to an issue on the Azure Portal and will manifest in CloudHealth like the below:

Resolution

Due to a rare issue in the Azure Portal, creating a new app registration might fail to create a new service principal as expected.  If this occurs, click the Create Service Principal link in App Registrations > Overview.