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Need assistance with automating MS Authentication in a PowerShell script
I am working on a Powershell script that reads from the Power BI Activity log to retrieve audit information on Power BI usage. I plan on running this script in Windows Task Scheduler daily to output ...
Thanks Alex and Andy. That definitely helps. I have tested it and it works. One more quick question: it is not a good practice to keep the password in the file like that where it can be exposed to whoever is on the server. Is there any way it can be encrypted? Possibly stored in secure encrypted format in another file which can be retrieved and then unencrypted?
Hello Lorenz33,
You can look into Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretManagement ( provides a convenient way for a user to store and retrieve secrets), which supports multiple secret vault types. For starters, you can use Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretStore ( Local secure store extension vault).
Hope that helps.