Accessing Windows Credential Manager from PowerShell

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Shaggydog picture Shaggydog · Mar 17, 2015 · Viewed 78.7k times · Source

I'm using PowerShell 2.0 (necessary because of SP2010) On Windows Server 2008 R2. I need to retrieve credentials for a process from the Windows Credential Manager. I can't seem to make it work.

I was given this piece of code:

[Windows.Security.Credentials.PasswordVault,Windows.Security.Credentials,ContentType=WindowsRuntime]
(new-object Windows.Security.Credentials.PasswordVault).RetrieveAll() | % { $_.RetrievePassword(); $_ }

both lines of code throw errors

Windows.Security.Credentials.PasswordVault,Windows.Security.Credentials,ContentType=WindowsRuntime : Unable to find type [Windows.Security.Credentials.PasswordVault,Windows.Security.Credentials,ContentType=WindowsRuntime]: make sure that the assembly containing this type is loaded.

and

(new-object Windows.Security.Credentials.PasswordVault).RetrieveAll() | % {$_.RetrievePassword(); $_ }

respectively. I've been trying to somehow import the PasswordVault class. So far Google has failed me, I haven't even been able to find out which assembly it resides in. What am I missing?

Answer

majkinetor picture majkinetor · Mar 30, 2016

In powershell5 type:

   Install-Module CredentialManager -force

Then

   New-StoredCredential -Target $url -Username $ENV:Username -Pass ....

and later

   Get-StoredCredential -Target ....

Source code for the module is https://github.com/davotronic5000/PowerShell_Credential_Manager

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