How can I connect to SWIS in a SAM Windows Powershell Script component?

Since this is running on the Orion server connecting locally, you can use certificate authentication. Try "Connect-Swis -Certificate".

Works perfectly!  I'm still getting acquainted with the SDK -- I appreciate the help.

tdanner, et. al,

I need to run remotely and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to send [scripted encrypted] credentials correctly using:

$password = New-Object System.Security.SecureString

I don't know how this is supposed to look and I think its what I need...

I need to be able to save off PW encrypted in REG or something and pull it in script...don't want to use certs b/c of changes.

I've searched google/technet, and the sdk docs...

Any help is greatly appreciated!

This article should help you deal with storing/retrieving the encrypted password.

http://powershell.org/wp/2013/11/24/saving-passwords-and-preventing-other-processes-from-decrypting-them/

Thank you derhally

I thought I read somewhere that the user that does the encryption is the only one that can decrypt that; do you know if that's correct?...I didn't get a good sense of it from that article.

I'll test this...we will be using service accounts, so may have to dance around security to be able to log in as that user to gen PWs if I've understood correctly.

Correct.  If you use DPAPI, only the account that does the encryption can decrypt it.   If you want to share encrypted data between accounts then you would need to use one of the other encryption techniques like using a certificate to encrypt the data.