Probably now is not the best time to upgrade your PowerShell to 7.3

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About 5 or 6 days ago, while executing a PowerShell script that had been working fine, I ran into an error I hadn’t seen before.

Get-Az***: GenericArguments[0], 'Microsoft.Azure.****', on 'T MaxIntegerT' violates the constraint of type 'T'.

Recalling carefully, I did not modify the script at the time, the only thing I did was to upgrade the version of PowerShell.

After that, I searched for similar issues in the azure-powershell Github repository, and the results I found were not good. According to the developers:

We are looking into problem. Besides Az.Compute, Az.Network has the same problem. I believe some popular modules have the same problem. Please use PowerShell 7.2 or lower for the time being.

GenericArguments[0] ... violates the constraint of type 'T' error since PowerShell 7.3.0.5 preview…

So, if you asked me 5 days ago whether to upgrade powershell to 7.3, I would definitely tell you not to.

I believe the developers must be fixing this issue these days, and some release candidates have been released, but according to the…