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alex hunt
alex hunt

Reputation: 47

Student, automating email to an admin on creation of a new user powershell

trying to send an email upon the creation of a new user to the admin. This appears to work the first time but then fails to run a second time. I think its an issue with me creating a new object the second time, but am unfamiliar with PScredential, and how to call it a second time instead of creating it again, I'm assuming it would be some form of if statement, but I don't know what to call in the if.

here is my Code

$password = ConvertTo-SecureString “Password” -AsPlainText -Force

$Cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential('38da1ca9daf082',"$password")

Send-MailMessage -SmtpServer 'smtp.mailtrap.io' -Credential $cred -UseSsl -From '[email protected]' -To '[email protected]' -Subject 'TEST'

and this is the error message

New-Object : Cannot find an overload for "PSCredential" and the argument count: "2".
At line:3 char:9
+ $Cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential('38da1ca ...
+         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [New-Object], MethodException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ConstructorInvokedThrowException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewObjectCommand

Upvotes: 0

Views: 67

Answers (1)

ArcSet
ArcSet

Reputation: 6860

So lets see the documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.management.automation.pscredential?view=pscore-6.2.0

We can see there are 2 constructors 

PSCredential(PSObject)

or

PSCredential(String, SecureString)

It looks like in the post example PSCredential(String, SecureString) was trying to be used.

In the example

$password = ConvertTo-SecureString “Password” -AsPlainText -Force
$Cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential('38da1ca9daf082',"$password")

Because "$Password" was put in quotes it has turned the SecureString into a regular String.

The Fix is to remove the qoutes "

Here is a working copy

$password = ConvertTo-SecureString “Password” -AsPlainText -Force
$Cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential('38da1ca9daf082',$password)
Send-MailMessage -SmtpServer 'smtp.mailtrap.io' -Credential $cred -UseSsl -From '[email protected]' -To '[email protected]' -Subject 'TEST'

Upvotes: 1

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