A while ago a customer contacted me with the request to write a script that programmatically logged on to the Azure portal, through a web-browser.
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$SecPwd = ConvertTo-SecureString -String 'MyPassword' -AsPlainText -Force $Cred = [pscredential]::new('user@domain.com',$SecPwd) |
First, you’ll need some credentials. In this case I’ve created them quick and dirty but I recommend  you don’t put credentials plain text in a script 😉
Next up would be actually logging on:
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$username = $Cred.GetNetworkCredential().UserName $password = $Cred.GetNetworkCredential().Password $url = 'http://portal.azure.com' $ie = New-Object -com InternetExplorer.Application $ie.visible=$true $ie.navigate($Url) start-sleep -Seconds 3 $ie.Document.IHTMLDocument3_getElementById("cred_userid_inputtext").focus() $ie.Document.IHTMLDocument2_activeElement.value = $username $ie.Document.IHTMLDocument3_getElementById("cred_userid_inputtext").focus() $ie.Document.IHTMLDocument3_getElementById("cred_password_inputtext").click() start-sleep -Seconds 3 $ie.Document.IHTMLDocument3_getElementById("cred_password_inputtext").focus() $ie.Document.IHTMLDocument2_activeElement.value = $password $ie.Document.IHTMLDocument3_getElementById("cred_userid_inputtext").click() $ie.Document.IHTMLDocument3_getElementById("cred_sign_in_button").focus() $ie.Document.IHTMLDocument3_getElementById("cred_sign_in_button").click() |
After some rigorous testing I found out that it works… once. After that a cookie is saved and the script will fail.
So a quick workaround in my case was to delete the cookie(s) andthe script ran again 🙂
P.S. Yes, I know… Internet Explorer, and through a COM port. If you can improve by using another browser, please do so and post underneath this post! I would love to learn from your code 😀
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