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You may find that running Get-Help against the "Connect-MsolService" cmd incorrectly shows as having a -CurrentCredentials parameter in PowerShell help. This switch parameter is not actually available Connect-MsolService -CurrentCredentials Connect-MsolService : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'CurrentCredentials'. At line:1 char:22 +  Connect-MsolService -CurrentCredentials +                      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Connect-MsolService], ParameterBindingException     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NamedParameterNotFound,Microsoft.Online.Administration.Automation.ConnectMsolServic    e You can see this in the online documentation for the cmdlet, a PSCredential must actually be provided. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn194123.aspx Why not check out our Network Automation Tool , for automatically creating Office365 accounts .

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We've recently seen an issue where C#.NET reports "The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized" when accessing a classic SOAP Web Reference. The credentials are set using  CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials as shown in the code below. /// <summary> /// Starts the service. /// </summary> /// <remarks> The scheduler web service is not polled at start-up to improve start response times. </remarks> public void StartService() {     try     {         server = new XIAAutomation ();         server.Credentials = CredentialCache .DefaultCredentials;         server.Url = GetWebServiceUrl();         server.Timeout = 60000;         SetupTimer();         Diagnostics .WriteEvent( String .Format(Resources. Service .StartupComplete, Assembly .GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version, server.Url), EventLogIdentifiers .Startup);     }     catch ( Exception ex) { Diagnostics .WriteEvent(Resources. Service .Sta

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