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PowerShell: Keeping Secrets for Batch Scripts
As a system administrator, I write a lot of utility scripts, and I love using PowerShell. However, I cannot always use the local scheduler with a service account to run a script, sometimes I have to provide a username and password to an application or service. I hate storing them in plaintext, and while I don't fully like storing the encrypted text, key, and IV in the script, it is one step better than the plaintext solution. While the ultimate solution would be to have it stored as part of the user profile for the job, this is an issue when I don't have direct access to the production system to be able to run as the service account and I just need an encrypted file / text to later decrypt and use.
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PowerShell: Adding the Using Statement
So, I happened to come across a need for the using statement from C#. I basically didn't want to use Try...Finally when I am so used to the short-hand using statement. Thank goodness I already have a Try..Catch..Finally statement/function for PowerShell, I can just use that existing framework and make a using statement/function pretty easily.