store credentials in text file for automating powershell scripts.

Hi All,

we are using asp plugin and running powershell through web interface. Each time instead of entering password we tried the below code to connect o365. Unfortunately the code doesnt works on a 2012 server with  ps1x file.

The same code works if we manually copy paste on a powershell window, we can get a session. Also on a windows 7 box the code is working. It is not working only on a windows 2012 with IIS. Is there something we need to enable on the server management so that remote code works.

The error we get is CAS server name access denied.

$KeyFile = "C:\temp\AES.key"
$Key = New-Object Byte[] 16 
[Security.Cryptography.RNGCryptoServiceProvider]::Create().GetBytes($Key)
$Key | out-file $KeyFile

$PasswordFile = "C:\temp\Password.txt"
$KeyFile = "C:\tempAES.key"
$Key = Get-Content $KeyFile
$Password = "xxxxxxx" | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force
$Password | ConvertFrom-SecureString -key $Key | Out-File $PasswordFile

$User = "serviceaccount.mydomain.onmicrosoft.com"
$PasswordFile = "C:\temp\Password.txt"
$KeyFile = "C:\tempAES.key"
$key = Get-Content $KeyFile
$MyCredential = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $User, (Get-Content $PasswordFile | ConvertTo-SecureString -Key $key)

$Session= New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $MyCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection -warningaction silentlycontinue
$temp = Import-PSSession $Session -AllowClobber -DisableNameChecking
Import-Module msonline
Connect-MsolService -Credential $MyCredential

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We also used the regular script which is working fine on windows 7 and powershell window.

$password = Get-content "C:\temp\password.txt" | convertto-securestring
$credentials = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist "serviceaccount.mydomain.onmicrosoft.com",$password 
$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $Credentials -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection -warningaction silentlycontinue
$temp = Import-PSSession $Session -allowclobber -warningaction silentlycontinue

Import-Module msonline
Connect-MsolService -Credential $Credentials -warningaction silentlycontinue

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