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TFS InvokeProcess to run under other credentials

Answer 1

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I have created a blog post on this how you can achieve this: http://www.ewaldhofman.nl/post/2010/05/28/Customize-Team-Build-2010-e28093-Part-9-Impersonate-activities-(run-under-other-credentials).aspx

Ewald Hofman 2010-09-20 09:11:39

Thanks! I'm new to the wwf and the custom build process. Could you briefly outline the steps to start using your code? Should I build a dll? Place it where? Call it from the where? I'm using the InvokeProcess activity block, guess I should call this block from within the using block, but how? Thanks a lot for your time.

Larsi 2010-09-20 09:34:38

You can find those answers in the rest of the series: http://www.ewaldhofman.nl/?tag=/build+2010+customization

Ewald Hofman 2010-09-20 10:00:28

ok, thanks. I think I got most of the answers, but I can't figure out why we need to create a Template project (part 4). Should it not be enough to create a new codeactivity, then add it to the toolbox (choose item) and start using it? (and of course on the build controller add a path). Can't understand whats happening with the template project. Thanks for any clarification.

Larsi 2010-09-20 11:27:03

To be able to add codeactivity to the template, creating the template project is the easiest. If you find another way of adding the code actvity, you can use that also. I always do in this way and it works perfectly. Everything is included in one solution which makes the development easy. (although the debugging experience is not optimal)

Ewald Hofman 2010-09-20 12:24:23

Answer 2

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A pure PowerShell option, assuming you have PowerShell 2.0 on your TeamBuild machine, is to use a background job. Start-Job allows you to specify the credentials of another account to perform the work. After spinning up the background job in your script you will probably want to wait for the job to finish and grab the results to output from the main script e.g.:

$cred = Get-Credential
$job = Start-Job -ScriptBlock { ls c:\windows\system32 -r *.sys } -Cred $cred
Wait-Job $job
Receive-Job $job

With respect to capturing, storing and retrieving the credentials, see this blog post for a good treatise on the subject.

Keith Hill 2010-09-20 15:31:03

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