Exception setting ApplicationPoolPassword

Question

Following the example in this blog post, I am trying to create a new Web Application with PowerShell.

However, when I try the line:

$WebAppBuilder.ApplicationPoolPassword = "password"

I receive the following error:

Exception setting "ApplicationPoolPassword": "Cannot convert the "password" value of type "System.String" to type "System.Security.SecureString"."

How might I go about fixing this?

Answer 1

You will have to ConvertTo-SecureString as documented here.

Or you could use Get-Credential to retrieve password, e.g. something like this:

$credential = Get-Credential 
$credential.GetNetworkCredential().Password