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

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?