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description This article describes how PSResourceGet integrates with the Azure Artifacts Credential Provider with ADO feeds.
ms.date 12/10/2025
ms.topic reference
title Use the Azure Artifacts Credential Provider with Azure Artifacts feeds

Use the Azure Artifacts Credential Provider with Azure Artifacts feeds

PSResourceGet v1.2.0-preview5 adds support for using the Azure Artifacts Credential Provider with Azure Artifacts feeds.

The Register-PSResourceRepository and Set-PSResourceRepository cmdlets have a new dynamic parameter -CredentialProvider that allows you to configure the CredentialProvider property of a PSResourceRepository. This dynamic parameter only works with repositories that aren't ContainerRegistry repositories or the PSGallery repository.

PSResourceGet automatically sets the value CredentialProvider to AzArtifacts when the URI contains pkgs.dev.azure.com or pkgs.visualstudio.com. This check is done when registering a new repository or when PSResourceGet reads the registered repositories.

The Credential Provider can be bypassed by setting the -CredentialProvider parameter to None.

How it works

PSResourceGet looks for the credential provider any time network credentials are set in the following priority order:

  1. Credentials passed in via Credential parameter.
  2. Credentials retrieved via the Azure Artifacts Credential Provider.
  3. Credentials retrieved from SecretManagement.

If the CredentialProvider property of a repository is set to AzArtifacts, PSResourceGet attempts to find the Credential Provider file on the machine in the following order:

  1. Checking the environment variable NUGET_PLUGIN_PATHS
  2. Checking the default locations: $env:USERPROFILE\.nuget\plugins
  3. Checking the location where Visual Studio is installed: common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\NuGet

For more information about the discovery process, see Convention-based discovery section of NuGet cross platform plugins.

After locating the Credential Provider, PSResourceGet uses one of the following commands to call the provider:

  • CredentialProvider.Microsoft.exe -Uri <uri> -NonInteractive -IsRetry -F Json
  • dotnet CredentialProvider.Microsoft.dll -Uri <uri> -NonInteractive -IsRetry -F Json

CredentialProvider.Microsoft.exe is used on Windows machines, while dotnet works on all supported platforms.

Dependencies

For this feature to work, the Azure Artifacts Credential Provider must be installed on the machine. The provider might already be available if you have Visual Studio or the .NET SDK installed. For more information about installing the Azure Artifacts Credential Provider, see the README file in the GitHub repository for the Azure Artifacts Credential Provider.