As I’m trying to improve OnedriveMapper, I’ve been looking into methods to avoid using Browser Emulation to authenticate with Office 365.<\/p>\n
This wasn’t difficult, but storing the cookie posed a challenge. There are no available methods in Powershell to do so, thus I went searching until I ran into a post on Stackoverflow that shows how to store a cookie using C#<\/a><\/p>\n Since Powershell can eat C#, this ended up being my working code to set a persistent OS cookie from Powershell:<\/p>\n edit: don’t use the Get-Hotfix PS command before you run above code, for some reason it breaks things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I’m trying to improve OnedriveMapper, I’ve been looking into methods to avoid using Browser Emulation to authenticate with Office 365. This wasn’t difficult, but storing the cookie posed a challenge. There are no available methods in Powershell to do so, thus I went searching until I ran into a post on Stackoverflow that shows … Continue reading Setting a Windows Cookie with Powershell (using InternetSetcookie in WinInet)<\/span> \n\n$source=@"\nusing System.Runtime.InteropServices;\nusing System;\nnamespace Cookies\n{\n public static class setter\n {\n [DllImport("wininet.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]\n private static extern bool InternetSetCookie(string url, string name, string data);\n\n public static bool SetWinINETCookieString(string url, string name, string data)\n {\n bool res = setter.InternetSetCookie(url, name, data);\n if (!res)\n {\n throw new Exception("Exception setting cookie: Win32 Error code="+Marshal.GetLastWin32Error());\n }else{\n return res;\n }\n }\n }\n}\n"@\n\n$compilerParameters = New-Object System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerParameters\n$compilerParameters.CompilerOptions="\/unsafe"\n\nAdd-Type -TypeDefinition $source -Language CSharp -CompilerParameters $compilerParameters\n\n[DateTime]$dateTime = Get-Date\n$dateTime.AddDays(1)\n$str = $dateTime.ToString("R")\n\n[Cookies.setter]::SetWinINETCookieString("https:\/\/cookieURL","cookieNAME","value;Expires=$str")\n<\/pre>\n