While working with the REST API endpoints exposed by the leaders in MDM space (Hint - VMware acquired them) , I picked up few things on how to authenticate to the REST endpoints and would like to document those here. The post is generic about how to use the below Authentication schemes: Basic Authentication Certificate Based Authentication Basic Authentication In Basic authentication, we base 64 encode the UserName & Password and pass it in the header. Pretty straight forward on how to do it in PowerShell, S tore the Credentials and then just encode them : $Credential = Get-Credential $EncodedUsernamePassword = [System.Convert] :: ToBase64String( [System.Text.Encoding] :: UTF8 . GetBytes($( '{0}:{1}' -f $Credential . UserName , $Credential . GetNetworkCredential() . Password)))
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