Accessing Windows Credential Manager from PowerShell

Question

I'm using PowerShell 2.0 (necessary because of SP2010) On Windows Server 2008 R2. I need to retrieve credentials for a process from the Windows Credential Manager. I can't seem to make it work.

I was given this piece of code:

[Windows.Security.Credentials.PasswordVault,Windows.Security.Credentials,ContentType=WindowsRuntime] (new-object Windows.Security.Credentials.PasswordVault).RetrieveAll() | % { $_.RetrievePassword(); $_ } 

both lines of code throw errors

Windows.Security.Credentials.PasswordVault,Windows.Security.Credentials,ContentType=WindowsRuntime : Unable to find type [Windows.Security.Credentials.PasswordVault,Windows.Security.Credentials,ContentType=WindowsRuntime]: make sure that the assembly containing this type is loaded. 

and

(new-object Windows.Security.Credentials.PasswordVault).RetrieveAll() | % {$_.RetrievePassword(); $_ }  

respectively. I've been trying to somehow import the PasswordVault class. So far Google has failed me, I haven't even been able to find out which assembly it resides in. What am I missing?

Answer 1

In powershell5 type:

   Install-Module CredentialManager -force 

Then

   New-StoredCredential -Target $url -Username $ENV:Username -Pass .... 

and later

   Get-StoredCredential -Target ....  

Source code for the module is https://github.com/davotronic5000/PowerShell_Credential_Manager