Windows Credential Manager

The Windows Credential Manager actions enable you to read/write/delete credentials stored in the credential manager.

Application Name and Credential type

For Generic credentials, the application name can be anything, a name, a url etc. For Domain Password, the name as a machine name.

Persistence

  • Session - credentials are only persisted for the current login session.
  • Local Machine - persited on the local machine across login sessions.
  • Enterprise - persisted to roaming user profile, can be used across different machines.