New-AzDataFactoryV2LinkedServiceEncryptedCredential Data Factory Integration Runtime with File System: Encryption of password

Question

Here's the definition json:

{
"name": "LSLocalFileServer",
"type": "Microsoft.DataFactory/factories/linkedservices",

"properties": {
    "annotations": [],
    "type": "FileServer",
    "typeProperties": {
        "host": "C:\\DataFolder",
        "userId": "MyUser",
        "passwword":
            {"value" :"MyPassword",
            "type": "SecureString"}
    },
    "connectVia": {
        "referenceName": "TheWorkingIR",
        "type": "IntegrationRuntimeReference"
    }
  }

}

Here's the PS command:
New-AzDataFactoryV2LinkedServiceEncryptedCredential -DataFactoryName 'DFMREDemo' -File './LSHoratiuLocal.json' -IntegrationRuntimeName 'TheWorkingIR' -ResourceGroupName 'HoratiuRipa'> 'encrypted.json'

Tried with -File, -DefinitionFile and so on.

It asks for confirmation for encrypting than it doesn't simply work, it doesn't throw an error, just writes "New-AzDataFactoryV2LinkedServiceEncryptedCredential:" in red. Is the .json definition ok?

Set-AzDataFactoryV2LinkedService -ResourceGroupName "HoratiuRipa" -DataFactoryName "DFMREdemo" -Name "LSLocalFileServer" -DefinitionFile "./LSHoratiuLocal.json"
Works, but the password is incorrect

Answer 1

I had the exact same error as OP. This took me almost all day to work out so thought I would share my solution for anyone else that gets here.

I was running the commandlet from powershell locally and in order to successfully encrypt credentials I needed to enable "remote access from intranet" on the local IR.