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    copied!<p>As part of my current role, I frequently find myself having to work with objects in one of my organisation's resource forests. At the moment in order to do that, I use an RDP session connected to a server within that forest, and authenticate to it with a specific "Admin" account in that forest.</p> <p>I'm starting to find this tedious, and so I've been trying to come up with a nice profile.ps1 which will get me a DirectoryEntry for the resource forest that I can work on with Powershell (v2.0) on my local workstation instead, and save me the tedium of constantly re-establishing RDP sessions.</p> <p>So I've got some code in my profile.ps1 which looks like this:</p> <pre><code>$resforest = "LDAP://DC=ldap,DC=path,DC=details" $creds = Get-Credential -credential "RESOURCE_FOREST\my_admin_account" $username = $creds.username $password = $creds.GetNetworkCredential().password $directoryentry = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry($resforest,$username,$password) </code></pre> <p>All of this proceeds fine, however, when I come to actually use the entry thus:</p> <pre><code>$search = New-Object DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher($directoryentry) $search.filter = "(&amp;(anr=something_to_look_for))" $search.findall() </code></pre> <p>I get a logon failure.</p> <p>Now, I know the credentials are fine, I can map drives with them from my workstation to machines in the resource forest - and that works fine - so what am I ballsing up here?</p> <p>PS - Please don't ask me to do anything with Quest's AD cmdlets - they're not allowed here.</p>
 

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