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The downloadstring methods are useful when you are only expecting to. Random class, you need to pass in a byte array buffer for the method to write to. Ideally, besides opening the powershell file and clicking authenticate on the smartcard popup, everything should be invisible to the user. My first attempt to do this was to use the getcontent cmdlet.
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