Pwsh core has issues with App Creation Scripts

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This issue is for a: (mark with an x)

- [X] bug report -> please search issues before submitting
- [ ] feature request
- [ X] documentation issue or request
- [ ] regression (a behavior that used to work and stopped in a new release)

Minimal steps to reproduce

From Powershell Core (7.2.1) run .\Cleanup.ps1

Any log messages given by the failure

Connect-AzureAD: ms-identity-aspnet-webapi-onbehalfof\AppCreationScripts\Cleanup.ps1:44
Line |
44 | … $creds = Connect-AzureAD -Credential $Credential -AzureEnvironment …
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| One or more errors occurred. (Could not load type 'System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256Cng' from assembly
| 'System.Core, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.): Could not load type
| 'System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256Cng' from assembly 'System.Core, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
| PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.

Expected/desired behavior

OS and Version?

Windows 7, 8 or 10. Linux (which distribution). macOS (Yosemite? El Capitan? Sierra?)
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Versions

Mention any other details that might be useful

PowerShell/PowerShell#10473 looks to be still going on with PWSH CORE connecting to AAD. If there is a known workaround, please include that in the App Creation Scripts README. Otherwise, please specify Powershell 5.1 needs to be used to run the scripts.

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