Powershell start-process argumentlist
I have an issue with powershell 4.0 where start-process converts my credentials from a type of System.Management.Automation.PSCredential to System.String. Use the following lines to replicate this:
$Credentials = Get-Credential
get-member -InputObject $Credentials
start-process C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ArgumentList "Get-Member -inputobject $Credentials | out-file C:\results.txt"
If you look at the results of the 1st get-member command, the type is System.Management.Automation.PSCredential. If you look at the results of the 2nd get-member command, the type is System.String. Does anyone know if this is intended behavior?
Is there a way around it?
I am using start-process to run a command which interfaces with VMware PowerCLI. One of the cmdlets of powercli is Set-OSCustomizationSpec. Set-OSCustomizationSpec has an argument that accepts PSCredentials, -DomainCredentials. When the
credentials are passed without start-process, the cmdlet succeeds. If I call it with start process, the cmdlet fails with the error
'Set-OSCustomizationSpec : Cannot bind parameter 'DomainCredentials'. Cannot convert the "System.Management.Automation.PSCredential" value of type "System.String" to type "System.Management.Automation.PSCredential"'
The actual command i am using is: "start-process powershell -argumentlist "<Add VMwareSnapins>;Set-OSCustomizationSpec <SPEC> -NamingScheme <Scheme> -NamingPrefix <Name> -DomainCredentials <Credentials>; new-vm..."
If you issue the command "get-member -inputobject $Credentials | out-file C:\results.txt" the type shows system.management.automation.pscredential. If you issue the exact same command with start-process(start-process powershell.exe -argumentlist
"get-member....) the type shows system.string.
The issue has nothing to do with piping to a text file. The original post was simply a demonstration of the error. I apologize for the initial lack of clarity.
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