A failure needs to be narrowed down before settings are changed or operations retried. Which evidence best separates application errors from environment and dependency problems?

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Inspect the actual error record and distinguish terminating from non-terminating errors. Use ErrorAction Stop around operations that must participate in try/catch. Verify the selected tenant, subscription or remote session before changing permissions in response to an access failure.

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