For scripts running unattended, you can create login credentials from code. This requires the secret password to be saved as clear text in a script (which obviously is unsafe unless you encrypt your script with the encrypting file system (EFS) or take other measures to protect the content):
$password = 'topsecret!' | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force $username = 'myCompany\myUserName' $credential = New-Object -TypeName PSCredential($username, $password) # use the credential with any cmdlet that exposes the –Credential parameter # to log in to remote systems Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk -ComputerName SomeServer -Credential $credential
