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Skype With Credentials Via Powershell

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  • 04-04-2016 10:17am
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    dpjmie
    Registered Users Posts: 263 ✭✭


    HI Guys,

    Looking for some advice on starting Skype as different users using powershell. I know the Get-Credential command will allow me to get a users credentials but is there a way that anyone knows of to pass this to an Application (Skype for business in this case)

    Cheers
    Dpjmie
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    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,016 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    You can enter a Skype For Business Online session with PowerShell as documented here (Technet), but I don't think that's what you want.

    It has also been possible to launch Skype from the command line and supply the username & password as parameters, so you could easily do that in PowerShell (rather than using Get-Credential you could just use Read-Host to prompt the user for username and password, though you'd probably want to use the -AsSecureString parameter for the password, then pipe it through ConvertFrom-Securestring when you actually launch Skype). However, I've not tried this with a Microsoft Account (as opposed to an original Skype account) and what I've seen from some brief reading around suggests that it's either not possible or non-intuitive...


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