Decrypting Passwords from unattend.xml using PowerShell

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Decrypt a password in an unattend.xml file

Source: https://michlstechblog.info/blog/windows-script-to-recover-lost-passwords-from-a-unattendsysprep-xml-file/

With powershell 🙂

$encryptedpwd = get-content C:\temp\pwd.txt
[System.Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetString([System.Convert]::FromBase64String($encryptedpwd))

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