Prompting for Credentials

To prompt for credentials, you should almost always use the Get-Credential cmdlet:

$credential = Get-Credential

Pre-filled user name:

$credential = Get-Credential -UserName 'myUser'

Add a custom prompt message:

$credential = Get-Credential -Message 'Please enter your company email address and password.'

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Handling secrets and credentials:

*Handling Secrets and Credentials

*Accessing the Plaintext Password

*Prompting for Credentials

*Working with Stored Credentials

*Storing the credentials in Encrypted form and Passing it as parameter when Required

Table Of Contents

6Working with objects

7Using existing static classes

8Basic set operations

9PowerShell functions

10Sending email

11Handling secrets and credentials

12PowerShell Remoting

13PowerShell Streams, debug, verbose, warning, error output

14Variables in PowerShell

15Communicating with RESTful APIs

16Working with the PowerShell pipeline

17PowerShell Background Jobs

18Return behavior in PowerShell

19XML

20Introduction to psake

21Progress bar

22Strings

23TCP communication

24SharePoint module

25Aliases

26Automatic variables

27Environment variables

28PowerShell profiles

29Enforcing script pre-requisites

30Using the help system

31Splatting

32Desired state configuration

33Signing scripts

34Security and cryptography

35CSV parsing

36Introduction to Pester

37Modules scripts and functions

38PowerShell.exe command-line

39Common parameters

40Parameter sets

41Regular Expressions

42PowerShell dynamic parameters

47MongoDB

48Running executables

49Error handling

50HashTables

51ActiveDirectory module

52SQL queries

53Automatic variables #2

54Package management

55Cmdlet naming

56Built-in variables

57Creating DSC class-based resources

58PowerShell modules

59PowerShell workflows

60How to downloaded latest artifact from artifactory

61Calculated properties

62Special operators

63Anonymize IP v4 and v6

65AWS S3

69Embedding managed code (C#, VB)

70Archive module

71Infrastructure automation

72Scheduled tasks module

73ISE module

74Recipies

75Contributors