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I was doing something like described in this post to save credentials in a secured file so our automated process can use that to run remote PS scripts via Invoke-command: http://blogs.technet.com/b/robcost/archive/2008/05/01/powershell-tip-storing-and-using-password-credentials.aspx This works great when I run this under my account - password is read from encrypted file, passed to Invoke-command and everything is fine. Today, when my script was ready for its prime time, I tried to run it under windows account that will be used by automated process and got this error below while my script was trying to read secured password from a file: ConvertTo-SecureString : Key not valid for use in specified state. At \\remoted\script.ps1:210 char:87 + $password = get-content $PathToFolderWithCredentials\pass.txt | convertto-sec urestring <<<< + CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [ConvertTo-SecureString], C ryptographicException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ImportSecureString_InvalidArgument_Cryptographic Error,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ConvertToSecureStringCommand Asked my workmate to run under his account and he got the same error. This is the code I am using to save credentials: $PathToFolderWithCredentials = "\\path\removed" write-host "Enter login as domain\login:" read-host | out-file $PathToFolderWithCredentials\login.txt write-host "Enter password:" read-host -assecurestring | convertfrom-securestring | out-file $PathToFolderWithCredentials\pass.txt write-host "*** Credentials have been saved to $pathtofolder ***" This is the code in the script to run by automated process to read them to use in Invoke-command: $login= get-content $PathToFolderWithCredentials\login.txt $password = ge

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