Error: "settings" contains an invalid JSON: invalid character 'g' in string escape code

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Error: "settings" contains an invalid JSON: invalid character 'g' in string escape code

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Attempting to deploy this environment with Terraform, but I get the above error. Also the following description, and cannot locate where the problem is...

on SharePoint-ADFS.tf line 232, in resource "azurerm_virtual_machine_extension" "VM-DC-DSC":
232: resource "azurerm_virtual_machine_extension" "VM-DC-DSC" {

Answer 1 · 2019-09-24T15:23:29.000Z

I didn't play with the Terraform template for a long time, so I just upgraded it to v0.12 in https://github.com/Yvand/AzureRM-Templates/tree/dev/Terraform/SharePoint-ADFS.
But for some reason, it hangs at creating network cards, I need to investigate this.
I'll update this thread when I have news

Answer 2 · 2019-09-24T19:49:06.000Z

Here are the latest errors I am receiving... Error: Invalid index on SharePoint-ADFS.tf line 63, in resource "azurerm_network_security_group" "NSG-VNet-SP": 63: name = "NSG-VNet-${var.vmSP["vmName"]}" |---------------- | var.vmSP is map of string with 2 elements The given key does not identify an element in this collection value. Error: Invalid index on SharePoint-ADFS.tf line 117, in resource "azurerm_subnet" "Subnet-SP": 117: name = "Subnet-${var.vmSP["vmName"]}" |---------------- | var.vmSP is map of string with 2 elements The given key does not identify an element in this collection value. Error: Invalid index on SharePoint-ADFS.tf line 175, in resource "azurerm_public_ip" "PublicIP-SP": 175: name = "PublicIP-${var.vmSP["vmName"]}" |---------------- | var.vmSP is map of string with 2 elements The given key does not identify an element in this collection value. Error: Invalid index on SharePoint-ADFS.tf line 178, in resource "azurerm_public_ip" "PublicIP-SP": 178: domain_name_label = "${lower(var.dnsLabelPrefix)}-${lower(var.vmSP["vmName"])}" |---------------- | var.vmSP is map of string with 2 elements The given key does not identify an element in this collection value. Thank you, [cid:f4144c86-bf17-4c51-9159-db5c1878d85d] Alfred U. Espinosa CIE Cloud Engineer Smartronix Inc.

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Answer 3 · 2019-09-25T06:43:57.000Z

I also had this error, it's because variable vmSP was also set in the .tfvars file, if you remove it from the .tfvars file then it works.
Apparently this is due to this: https://www.terraform.io/upgrade-guides/0-12.html#map-variables-no-longer-merge-when-overridden

Answer 4 · 2019-09-25T11:53:41.000Z

About your original issue, the value of variable _artifactsLocation was incorrect, so the path to DSC files was invalid, which probably caused the issue