Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

How it works...

When you run the Get-Credential cmdlet, you are presented with a Windows authentication dialog box requesting your username and password. In the previous example, we assigned the Get-Credential cmdlet to the $credential variable. After typing your username and password into the authentication dialog box, the credentials are saved as an object that can then be assigned to the -Credential parameter of a cmdlet. The cmdlet that utilizes the credential object will then run using the credentials of the specified user.

Supplying credentials to a command doesn't have to be an interactive process. You can programmatically create a credential object within your script without using the Get-Credential cmdlet:

    $user = "testlabs\administrator" ...