azurerm_windows_virtual_machine: Change of license_type should not force new resource

[NilsBusche]

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Terraform (and AzureRM Provider) Version

Terraform v0.12.24
terraform-provider-azurerm_v2.12.0

Affected Resource(s)

• azurerm_windows_virtual_machine

Terraform Configuration Files

resource "azurerm_windows_virtual_machine" "instance" {

[...]

  license_type = "None"

[...]

}

Expected Behavior

Changing attribute license_type should be an in-place update and should work online.
Azure CLI and Azure Portal allow changing this without replacement of VM.

Actual Behavior

Changing attribute license_type forces new resource to be created:
~ license_type = "None" -> "Windows_Client" # forces replacement

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create azurerm_windows_virtual_machine with license_type = "None"
2. terraform apply
3. Change license_type to Windows_Client
4. terraform plan / terraform apply

Important Factoids

Changing without recreation is possible using Azure built-in features.

[ArcturusZhang]

Hi @NilsBusche thanks for this issue!

Taking a look through this appears to be a duplicate of #7192 - rather than having multiple issues open tracking the same thing I'm going to close this issue in favour of that one; would you mind subscribing to #7192 for updates?

Thanks!

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