You cannot use get-credential without some type of prompt (although you can do it without the pop-up dialog), however you can save your securestring password to a file, reload it for later, and manually create a credential without a prompt. Of course the problem with this is that your password will be exposed to anyone with access to the file, so do this at your own risk. First, choose your password and write it to a file: PS C:\> read-host -assecurestring | convertfrom-securestring | out-file...