{"id":961,"date":"2014-07-22T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/07\/22\/powertip-convert-plain-text-to-secure-string\/"},"modified":"2014-07-22T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-convert-plain-text-to-secure-string","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-convert-plain-text-to-secure-string\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Convert Plain Text to Secure String"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn to convert a plain text password to a secure string for cmdlet parameters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<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;I&#039;m trying to convert some scripts to work with the Active Directory modules,&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;but they need a secure string for the password. How do I create one of these?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>ConvertTo-SecureString<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet, capture the output, then <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;supply the new variable as&nbsp;<b>SecureString<\/b>&nbsp;for the password:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">$SecurePassword=ConvertTo-SecureString &#039;MySuperSecretP@ssw0rd!&#039; &ndash;asplaintext &ndash;force<span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><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>Summary: Learn to convert a plain text password to a secure string for cmdlet parameters. &nbsp;&nbsp;I&#039;m trying to convert some scripts to work with the Active Directory modules,&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;but they need a secure string for the password. How do I create one of these? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;ConvertTo-SecureString&nbsp;cmdlet, capture the output, then &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/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":[7,56,356,3,154,45],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-active-directory","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn to convert a plain text password to a secure string for cmdlet parameters. &nbsp;&nbsp;I&#039;m trying to convert some scripts to work with the Active Directory modules,&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;but they need a secure string for the password. How do I create one of these? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;ConvertTo-SecureString&nbsp;cmdlet, capture the output, then &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","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=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/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=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}