Working with Passwords in Powershell
When creating a new Active Directory user from the command line in PowerShell, you will likely find yourself using Read-Hosts's asSecureString switch when entering the password. $password = Read-Host "Enter password" -AsSecureString Next, you'll probably look around the Internets for a few hours or so trying to figure out how to change the password of the newly created user. You will soon discover that the user creation process in PowerShell 1.0 isn't very straightfoward and it even requires a specific order for proper account creation. First, you create the account, then you set some basic properties, next you call SetInfo(), and finally you invoke setPassword using the follwing syntax: $newUser.psbase.Invoke("SetPassword",$password) Now you may find yourself with the following exception: Exception calling "Invoke" with "2" argument(s): "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation." Originally, this post mentio...