Gets a PowerShell Credential [PSCredential] from the Windows Credential Manager. This only works for Generic Credentials.

readme.md

I've updated the script to a Module and expanded the help.

To use as a module, save to a new folder in \Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules with a filename that matches the foldername and a psm1 extention.

ex C:\Users\you\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\StoredCredential\StoredCredential.psm1

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2012 Tobias Burger

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Get-CredentialFromWindowsCredentialManager.ps1

<#
.SYNOPSIS
Gets a PowerShell Credential (PSCredential) from the Windows Credential Manager

.DESCRIPTION
This module will return a [PSCredential] object from a credential stored in Windows Credential Manager. The 
Get-StoredCredential function can only access Generic Credentials.

Alias: GSC

.PARAMETER Name
The name of the target login informations in the Windows Credential Manager

.EXAMPLE
PS C:\>Get-StoredCredential tfs.codeplex.com

UserName                             Password
--------                             --------
codeplexuser                         System.Security.SecureString

.EXAMPLE
PS C:\>$cred = gsc production
PS C:\>$conn = Connect-WSMan -ComputerName ProdServer -Credential $cred

.INPUTS
System.String

.OUTPUTS
System.Management.Automation.PSCredential

.NOTES
To add credentials open up Control Panel>User Accounts>Credential Manager and click "Add a gereric credential". 
The "Internet or network address" field will be the Name required by the Get-StoredCredential function.

Forked from https://gist.github.com/toburger/2947424 which was adapted from
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7162604/get-cached-credentials-in-powershell-from-windows-7-credential-manager

.LINK
Get-Credential

.ROLE
Operations

.FUNCTIONALITY
Security
    
#>
function Get-StoredCredential
{
    [CmdletBinding()]
    [OutputType([PSCredential])]
    Param
    (
        [Parameter(Mandatory, Position=0)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [Alias("Address", "Location", "TargetName")]
        [string]$Name
    )

    End
    {
        $nCredPtr= New-Object IntPtr

        $success = [ADVAPI32.Util]::CredRead($Name,1,0,[ref] $nCredPtr)

        if ($success) {
            $critCred = New-Object ADVAPI32.Util+CriticalCredentialHandle $nCredPtr
            $cred = $critCred.GetCredential()
            $username = $cred.UserName
            $securePassword = $cred.CredentialBlob | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force
            $cred = $null
            Write-Output (New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential $username, $securePassword)
        } else {
            Write-Verbose "No credentials where found in Windows Credential Manager for TargetName: $Name"
        }
    }

    Begin
    {
        $sig = @"

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
public struct NativeCredential
{
    public UInt32 Flags;
    public CRED_TYPE Type;
    public IntPtr TargetName;
    public IntPtr Comment;
    public System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes.FILETIME LastWritten;
    public UInt32 CredentialBlobSize;
    public IntPtr CredentialBlob;
    public UInt32 Persist;
    public UInt32 AttributeCount;
    public IntPtr Attributes;
    public IntPtr TargetAlias;
    public IntPtr UserName;

    internal static NativeCredential GetNativeCredential(Credential cred)
    {
        NativeCredential ncred = new NativeCredential();
        ncred.AttributeCount = 0;
        ncred.Attributes = IntPtr.Zero;
        ncred.Comment = IntPtr.Zero;
        ncred.TargetAlias = IntPtr.Zero;
        ncred.Type = CRED_TYPE.GENERIC;
        ncred.Persist = (UInt32)1;
        ncred.CredentialBlobSize = (UInt32)cred.CredentialBlobSize;
        ncred.TargetName = Marshal.StringToCoTaskMemUni(cred.TargetName);
        ncred.CredentialBlob = Marshal.StringToCoTaskMemUni(cred.CredentialBlob);
        ncred.UserName = Marshal.StringToCoTaskMemUni(System.Environment.UserName);
        return ncred;
    }
}

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
public struct Credential
{
    public UInt32 Flags;
    public CRED_TYPE Type;
    public string TargetName;
    public string Comment;
    public System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes.FILETIME LastWritten;
    public UInt32 CredentialBlobSize;
    public string CredentialBlob;
    public UInt32 Persist;
    public UInt32 AttributeCount;
    public IntPtr Attributes;
    public string TargetAlias;
    public string UserName;
}

public enum CRED_TYPE : uint
    {
        GENERIC = 1,
        DOMAIN_PASSWORD = 2,
        DOMAIN_CERTIFICATE = 3,
        DOMAIN_VISIBLE_PASSWORD = 4,
        GENERIC_CERTIFICATE = 5,
        DOMAIN_EXTENDED = 6,
        MAXIMUM = 7,      // Maximum supported cred type
        MAXIMUM_EX = (MAXIMUM + 1000),  // Allow new applications to run on old OSes
    }

public class CriticalCredentialHandle : Microsoft.Win32.SafeHandles.CriticalHandleZeroOrMinusOneIsInvalid
{
    public CriticalCredentialHandle(IntPtr preexistingHandle)
    {
        SetHandle(preexistingHandle);
    }

    public Credential GetCredential()
    {
        if (!IsInvalid)
        {
            NativeCredential ncred = (NativeCredential)Marshal.PtrToStructure(handle,
                  typeof(NativeCredential));
            Credential cred = new Credential();
            cred.CredentialBlobSize = ncred.CredentialBlobSize;
            cred.CredentialBlob = Marshal.PtrToStringUni(ncred.CredentialBlob,
                  (int)ncred.CredentialBlobSize / 2);
            cred.UserName = Marshal.PtrToStringUni(ncred.UserName);
            cred.TargetName = Marshal.PtrToStringUni(ncred.TargetName);
            cred.TargetAlias = Marshal.PtrToStringUni(ncred.TargetAlias);
            cred.Type = ncred.Type;
            cred.Flags = ncred.Flags;
            cred.Persist = ncred.Persist;
            return cred;
        }
        else
        {
            throw new InvalidOperationException("Invalid CriticalHandle!");
        }
    }

    override protected bool ReleaseHandle()
    {
        if (!IsInvalid)
        {
            CredFree(handle);
            SetHandleAsInvalid();
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
}

[DllImport("Advapi32.dll", EntryPoint = "CredReadW", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, SetLastError = true)]
public static extern bool CredRead(string target, CRED_TYPE type, int reservedFlag, out IntPtr CredentialPtr);

[DllImport("Advapi32.dll", EntryPoint = "CredFree", SetLastError = true)]
public static extern bool CredFree([In] IntPtr cred);


"@
        try
        {
            Add-Type -MemberDefinition $sig -Namespace "ADVAPI32" -Name 'Util' -ErrorAction Stop
        }
        catch
        {
            Write-Error -Message "Could not load custom type. $($_.Exception.Message)"
        }
    
    }
}

Export-ModuleMember Get-StoredCredential

New-Alias -Name gsc -Value Get-StoredCredential -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if ($?) {
    Export-ModuleMember -Alias gsc
}

when I run it within PowerShell ISE I get this error:

Export-ModuleMember : The Export-ModuleMember cmdlet can only be called from inside a module.
At C:\Users\c563368\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Moduls\StoredCredential\Get-CredentialFromWindowsCredentialManager.ps1:207 char:1
+ Export-ModuleMember Get-StoredCredential
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : PermissionDenied: (:) [Export-ModuleMember], InvalidOperationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Modules_CanOnlyExecuteExportModuleMemberInsideAModule,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ExportModuleMemberCommand

any idea what goes wrong?

@PackElend That error occurs because you are not using the code as a module. If you want to use the code directly in a script, simply just remove the last six (6) rows from the code, starting with "Export-ModuleMember..." That code creates the alias for the module, which you don't really "need" if you are running the code directly from within another script.