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Iron Contributor

Jun 16, 2017

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Connect-PnPOnline credential: can it use SharePointOnlineCredentials object

$UserName="<username>" $pwd ="<password>" $Credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($UserName,(ConvertTo-SecureString $pwd -AsPlainText -Force)) can we u...

Pieter Veenstra

Jun 16, 2017

You can either do this:

$cred = Get-Credential -UserName $username -Message "Please enter password for $username"

or this:

$encpassword = convertto-securestring -String $password -AsPlainText -Force
$cred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $username, $encpassword

and then connect with:

Connect-PnPOnline -Url $destinationTenantUrl -Credentials $cred

Pieter Veenstra

MVP

Jun 16, 2017

You can either do this:

$cred = Get-Credential -UserName $username -Message "Please enter password for $username"

or this:

$encpassword = convertto-securestring -String $password -AsPlainText -Force
$cred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $username, $encpassword

and then connect with:

Connect-PnPOnline -Url $destinationTenantUrl -Credentials $cred