Previously with NetCmdlets, authentication details were only accepted using plain text parameters. This is still supported, but now these cmdlets support PSCredentials through a new -credentials parameter. This works for almost all of the cmdlets included in NetCmdlets, like FTP, LDAP, HTTP, SMTP, Rexec, RSS, IM, SMS, SSH, etc. Here's an example with get-ldap. Before, you had to bind to the directory server using plain text parameters, like this: PS C:\> get-ldap -server testboy -binddn mydomain\admin...