title: Deployment template parse failed: 'Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: <. Path '', line 0, position 0.'. (Code: InvalidTemplate)
body: <p>While i am trying to deploy a azure template through azure portal i am getting validation error as `</p>
  
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    "telemetryId": "8a5ab567-31cf-4eb4-832b-4f6ce5d98986",
    "bladeInstanceId": "Blade_15b8aeb39a5249f788c6d40029a3b77b_6_0",
    "galleryItemId": "MyGalleryItem",
    "createBlade": "DeployToAzure",
    "code": "InvalidTemplate",
    "message": "Deployment template parse failed: 'Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: &lt;. Path '', line 0, position 0.'."
  }</code></pre>
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  <p>How to debug the error.
  Please help in this regard.
  Thank you.</p>