Comments on: PowerShell Script: Export-PSCredential and Import-PSCredential

By: Alain Assaf

Alain Assaf — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:38:57 +0000

Thanks for this Hal. I’ve added these functions to my $profile at work.

By: Jolken

Jolken — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:15:31 +0000

Thanks for the post! I tried using this script for VM deployment and it worked very well when I was testing with a single VM. I ran into a problem, however, when I tried to deploy a VM from the template I created with this script included along with an Add-Computer cmdlet. When a VM is deployed and you choose to generate a new SSID to provide uniqueness on the domain, the users from the template VM are given new UUIDs. Since the only user that can recall the stored credentials is the one that created them, if the user UUID changes, it can’t call the credential file. Is there a way to make the credential file available to all users?

By: Episode 35 – Community Roundtable #2 « PowerScripting Podcast

Episode 35 – Community Roundtable #2 « PowerScripting Podcast — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:47:16 +0000

[...] Hal brings us a couple of scripts for saving credentials [...]

By: Export-PSCredential | SAPIEN Technologies

Export-PSCredential | SAPIEN Technologies — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:22:53 +0000

[...] Rottenberg has put together a very nice set of functions for exporting and importing PSCredential to a file. The export function takes a PSCredential and serializes it to an XML file. The [...]

By: Jeff Hicks

Jeff Hicks — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:51:52 +0000

Thanks for the update. I suspected a version issue.

By: halr9000

halr9000 — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:13:06 +0000

You know, it works great for me in v2, but I get the same error in v1. If you look at the .xml file, does it have the typename? “ExportedPSCredential“. I bet it doesn’t.

Darn, that was pretty elegant. I guess I’ll take it out for now. Try this one: http://poshcode.org/472

(I’ll update the links above.)

By: Jeff Hicks

Jeff Hicks — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:47:17 +0000

These versions work for you? The export is fine but the import doesn’t recognize the type. I don’t think the import function can validate the custom type you created.

PS C:\Scripts\PoSH> (import-clixml credentials.enc.xml).psobject.typenames
System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObject
System.Object

Or am I doing something wrong?