Running PowerShell as another user and launching a script

Question

I won t get into all the details of why I need this  but users must be able to launch PowerShell as a service account and when PowerShell loads it needs to run a script  I already can launch PowerShell with the stored credentials  stored as a secure string   but for the life of me I cannot get the script  located in  args  to run  I have tried a variety of things  and below is where I am currently  Any help would be greatly appreciated    user    domain service account    pwd1    big long huge string of characters   pwd     pwd1   ConvertTo-SecureString   Credential   New-Object System Management Automation PSCredential  user   pwd  args      domain local location location location Script script ps1  Start-Process powershell exe -Credential  Credential -ArgumentList   -file  args

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Try adding the RunAs option to your Start-Process  Start-Process powershell exe -Credential  Credential -Verb RunAs -ArgumentList   -file  args

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You can open a new powershell window under a specified user credential like this   start powershell -credential

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I found this worked for me    username    user   password    password    securePassword   ConvertTo-SecureString  password -AsPlainText -Force  credential   New-Object System Management Automation PSCredential  username   securePassword Start-Process Notepad exe -Credential  credential   Updated  changed to using single quotes to avoid special character issues noted by Paddy

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In windows server 2012 or 2016 you can search for Windows PowerShell and then  Pin to Start   After this you will see  Run as different user  option on a right click on the start page tiles

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Here s also nice way to achieve this via UI   0  Right click on PowerShell icon when on task bar  1  Shift   right click on Windows PowerShell  2   Run as different user

[powershell] Running PowerShell as another user, and launching a script

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