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AI-generatedPSCredential portability fails across accounts and runtimes during integration testing
Symptom PSCredential objects encrypted with ConvertTo-SecureString rely on Windows DPAPI bound to the creating user account and machine. Exporting the credential with Export-Clixml produces XML that cannot be decrypted by a different user or on another host, blocking credential reuse in CI/CD pipelines and shared test environments. Cross-runtime divergence P
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