PowerShell on Target Machine: Special Characters in password

I am running into an issue where my admin password contain special characters. As a result, when executing the script, the authentication fails.

password - %D0`H\vW’RUc?buZ5

While I could, and probably will, in the short term, update the password to remove special characters, I wanted to bring this issue to your attention. With password policies becoming more robust, it is only a matter of time, if not already, before this becomes an issue for others.

Error log excerpt: 2016-11-03T15:38:46.6387093Z Deployment status for machine ‘ServerRemoved:5985’ : ‘Failed’ 2016-11-03T15:38:46.6543337Z ##[debug]System.Exception: AuthorizationManager check failed. 2016-11-03T15:38:46.6699590Z ##[error]AuthorizationManager check failed.

[goofy78270]

Using the following appears to work in the test listed above. $securePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString ‘%D0`H\vW’‘RUc?buZ5’ -AsPlainText -Force

note that I changed the double quotes to a single quote and escaped the single quote within the password

[praharshp]

Feel its my luck day today. After banging my head for past 8 hours on this I could finally work this through using Stop-Script character in PowerShell ‘–%’

Solution I tried: .\config.cmd --deploymentgroup --deploymentgroupname DeployGroupCTS --agent $env:COMPUTERNAME --runasservice --work '_work' --adddeploymentgrouptags --deploymentgrouptags $CTS --url 'https://dev.azure.com/campusmgmt-product-development/' --projectname 'Student' --auth PAT --token u4bq6j************************************hhyq --windowsLogonAccount $(ServiceAccountUser) --windowsLogonPassword --% "$(Service_Account_Password)" %;%

Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18923315/using-in-powershell

Hope this might helps others.