VMware View API - Change recovery password

po-temkin — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 09:15:25 GMT

Hello to everyone
I want to edit Recovery Password for my Horizon Connection Server. Below, you can see a couple of functions that should do this. But instead of a successful result, I see an error:

PS C:\Windows\system32> $Password = '12345678' PS C:\Windows\system32> $Password = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $Password -AsPlainText -Force PS C:\Windows\system32> Set-HvRecoveryPasswordExt -Password $Password Exception calling "GlobalSettings_Update" with "1" argument(s): "ExceptionType : VMware.Hv.InvalidArgument ErrorMessage : Invalid recovery password hash. ParameterName : dataRecoveryPasswordData" At C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\VMware.Hv.Helper.Ext\VMware.Hv.Helper.Ext.psm1:1627 char:5 + $services.GlobalSettings.GlobalSettings_Update($updates) + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : VimException RecoveryPasswordSHA256 RecoveryPasswordHint ---------------------- -------------------- {123, 35, 45, 65...}

What's wrong with my approach? P.S: Documentation page https://developer.vmware.com/apis/1696/view

function Set-HvRecoveryPasswordExt { param( [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)] [securestring] $Password, [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)] [string] $Hint ) begin { $services = Get-ViewAPIService -hvServer $hvServer if ($null -eq $services) { Write-Error "Could not retrieve ViewApi services from connection object" break } } process { $tempPassword = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($Password) $plainePassword = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto($tempPassword) $Stream = [IO.MemoryStream]::new([byte[]][char[]]$plainePassword) $SHA256 = (Get-FileHash -InputStream $Stream -Algorithm SHA256).Hash $SHA256Bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($SHA256) $GlobalSettingsDataRecoveryPasswordData = New-Object VMware.Hv.GlobalSettingsDataRecoveryPasswordData -Property @{ recoveryPasswordSHA256 = $SHA256Bytes recoveryPasswordHint = $Hint } $updates = Get-MapEntryExt -Key dataRecoveryPasswordData -Value $GlobalSettingsDataRecoveryPasswordData $services.GlobalSettings.GlobalSettings_Update($updates) } end { return $updates [System.gc]::collect() } }

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VMware View API - Change recovery password