topic PowerShell - Authenticating using Windows credentials in Vault Customization Forum

PowerShell - Authenticating using Windows credentials

donalmcnamee — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 18:47:07 GMT

Has anyone any experience of connecting to Vault via PowerShell, but using Windows credentials?

For example, the following code throws an error "New-Object : Exception calling ".ctor" with "1" argument(s): "311""

Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom('C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Autodesk Vault 2019 SDK\bin\x64\Autodesk.Connectivity.WebServices.dll') $serverID = New-Object Autodesk.Connectivity.WebServices.ServerIdentities $serverID.DataServer = "MYSERVER" $serverID.FileServer = "MYSERVER" $VaultName = "MYVAULT" $cred = New-Object Autodesk.Connectivity.WebServicesTools.UserPasswordCredentials ($serverID, $VaultName, $true) $vault = New-Object Autodesk.Connectivity.WebServicesTools.WebServiceManager($cred)

The only thing I found online was this https://github.com/miwaniza/Autodesk_Vault_Programmers_Cookbook/blob/master/2.%20Login/1.3.%20Windows%20Authentication/Login-VaultServer-WinAuth.ps1

But it would seem to suggest that I don't need to pass my username and password to UserPasswordCredentials when authenticating using Active Directory.

Using simple username/password authentication as per this (https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/vault-customization/here-is-a-working-windows-login-to-vault-but-how-do-i-ensure-a/td-p/3303343) does not work either.

Any ideas?

Re: PowerShell - Authenticating using Windows credentials

ihayesjr — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:21:38 GMT

See if the Autodesk University class helps.

https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Feel-Power-Between-Vault-and-PowerShell-2019

Re: PowerShell - Authenticating using Windows credentials

donalmcnamee — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 07:45:28 GMT

Hi @ihayesjr

I seen that article alright, but it didn't help much. From what I can make out, the method used to connect to the Vault in the article uses told Connectivity.WebServicesTools mechanism and I don't see how to pass Windows credentials using that mechanism.

I changed my tact a little and I'm now writing my program in C# as opposed to PowerShell. I can connect to the Vault in C# using the new Vault Concurrency ConnectionManager.

VDF.Vault.Results.LogInResult results = VDF.Vault.Library.ConnectionManager.LogIn("myserver", "myvault", null, null, AuthenticationFlags.WindowsAuthentication, null);

I'm sure there's a way to achieve the same in PowerShell, but I just can't see it at the moment.

Re: PowerShell - Authenticating using Windows credentials

menno.jorna — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 12:34:37 GMT

Same issue here, cannot manage to login to vault with Windows Account and Powershell using Connectivity.WebServicesTools. Does anyone know how to do so?