Need help joining to domain during provision

[Edward Evans]

I am also having trouble adding the machine to the domain during provision.  I am using a SHELL provisioner and running a BoxStarter script which has something like

$computer = Get-WMIObject win32_computersystem

$memberStatus = ($computer).domainrole

$domainName = "myDomain.com"

if ($memberStatus -eq 0 -or $memberStatus -eq 2)  

{

    $User = "myDomain.com\SuperUser"

    $pWord = ConvertTo-SecureString –String "Passw0rd!" –AsPlainText -Force

    $cred = New-Object –TypeName "System.Management.Automation.PSCredential" –ArgumentList $User, $PWord

        #Add the computer to the domain if it's a 'Standalone Workstation' (0) or 'Standalone Server' (2) only

        Add-Computer -DomainName $domainName -NewName $computer -Credential $cred

        #Add 'Domain Users' to the Local Administrators group on the computer

        $group = [ADSI]"WinNT://./Administrators,group"

        $group.Add("WinNT://$domainName/My.User,$group")

        if (Test-PendingReboot){Invoke-Reboot}

    

}

But I get 

==> Client:  Chocolatey installed 1/1 package(s). 0 package(s) failed.                                         

==> Client:   See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).                         

==> Client:  + Boxstarter finished Calling Chocolatey to install dotnet3.5. This may take several minutes to co

mplete... 00:03:12.1516303                                                                                     

==> Client:  ConvertTo-SecureString : The parameter value "Æ'?String Passw0rd! Æ'?AsPlainText" is not a valid 

encrypted string.                                                                                              

==> Client:  At C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\temp_BoxstarterPackage\tools\ChocolateyInstall.ps1:15 char:14    

==> Client:  + ...    $pWord = ConvertTo-SecureString Æ'?"String "Passw0rd!" Æ'?"AsPlainT ...                 

==> Client:  +                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                       

==> Client:                                                                                                    

==> Client:      + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [ConvertTo-SecureString], PSArgumentException  

==> Client:      + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ImportSecureString_InvalidArgument,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Con

vertToSecureStringCo                                                                                           

==> Client:     mmand                                                                                          

==> Client:  New-Object : Cannot find type [Æ'?TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential Æ'?ArgumentLi

st]: verify that the as                                                                                        

==> Client:  sembly containing this type is loaded.                                                            

==> Client:                                                                                                    

==> Client:  At C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\temp_BoxstarterPackage\tools\ChocolateyInstall.ps1:16 char:13    

==> Client:  +     $cred = New-Object Æ'?"TypeName "System.Management.Automation.PSCr ...                      

==> Client:  +             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                           

==> Client:      + CategoryInfo          : InvalidType: (:) [New-Object], PSArgumentException                  

==> Client:      + FullyQualifiedErrorId : TypeNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewObjectCommand         

Any help appreciated.

Ed

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

hello

seems the script is failing on

$pWord = ConvertTo-SecureString –String "Passw0rd!" –AsPlainText -Force

seems is taking the asplaintext as part of the password

check the encoding of the script, ie open it on plain notepad

check the dash - are correct, sometimes windows editors change -- to some nicelooking char that is not - -

Alvaro

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 8:30 PM, Edward Evans <ed.e...@gmail.com> wrote:

==> Client:  ConvertTo-SecureString : The parameter value "Æ'?String Passw0rd! Æ'?AsPlainText" is not a valid 

encrypted string.    

--

Alvaro

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[Edward Evans]

I was using SublimeText3 which was writing it as utf8.  I changed it to use Western (Windows 1252) and it got passed that issue and then complained about computername...I've added $computer.name and am trying that.

Thanks so much!

[Edward Evans]

That fixed it...thanks so much!