{"id":3947,"date":"2013-03-26T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/03\/26\/powertip-store-powershell-credentials\/"},"modified":"2013-03-26T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-store-powershell-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-store-powershell-credentials\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Store PowerShell Credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Store your Windows PowerShell credentials in a variable for later use.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I store alternate credentials for repeated use in my Windows PowerShell session?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>Use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-Credential<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet to prompt for a credential, and store the results in a variable:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">$credential = Get-Credential<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Summary: Store your Windows PowerShell credentials in a variable for later use. &nbsp;How can I store alternate credentials for repeated use in my Windows PowerShell session? Use the&nbsp;Get-Credential&nbsp;cmdlet to prompt for a credential, and store the results in a variable: $credential = Get-Credential &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-3947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>&nbsp; Summary: Store your Windows PowerShell credentials in a variable for later use. &nbsp;How can I store alternate credentials for repeated use in my Windows PowerShell session? Use the&nbsp;Get-Credential&nbsp;cmdlet to prompt for a credential, and store the results in a variable: $credential = Get-Credential &nbsp;<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}