Store powershell credentials encrypted

[…] for accessing the source and destination clusters and then connect to this systems. In this article I will explain how I have saved the credentials and why I have done it in this […]

[…] Second thing you need to think of it the user account the script runs with. Since this will be triggered by Veeam Backup & Replication, the context most likely will be the System user. To be able to use encrypted credentials in a xml file, this should be created with PSEXEC to have the decryption right for the System user. Marco Hostmann has written a nice little article on how to do this: https://horstmann.in/store-powershell-credentials-encrypted/ […]