Invoke PDQ Deploy Powershell Deployment with specific Credentials

Hello there!

Since it sounds like you're running PowerShell to connect to a machine that you have PDQ Deploy installed on, I'll focus on the PowerShell.

PowerShell's Invoke-Command has a -Credential parameter that accepts a PSCredential object. Check out the docs on it here: Invoke-Command

So, if you're trying to run a scriptblock remotely on a different computer as a different user, you'll just need to provide the credential for that different user.

There are a handful of ways that you can create a PSCredential object. If you're just interactively using PowerShell, the easiest way to do that is to use the Get-Credential cmdlet and store the resulting object into a variable:

$MyCredential = Get-Credential 

That will prompt you for a username and password and will create the PSCredential object for you. Then, you can use that new credential directly with Invoke-Command. Combining the above with your example:

$MyCredential = Get-Credential 
Invoke-Command -ComputerName "Fry" -Credential $MyCredential -ScriptBlock 
{
pdqdeploy Deploy -Package "Example Package" -Targets "Wolverine"
}

If you're looking for more info on credentials and how to securely use them, take a look at my blogs I wrote on the topic:

• Secure Password with PowerShell: Encrypting Credentials – Part 1
• Secure Password with PowerShell: Encrypting Credentials – Part 2

I hope that helps! Best of luck to you!

Cheers,