Start-ADTProcess with -SecureArgumentList parameter failing

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When I run this command…
Start-ADTProcess -FilePath "$($adtSession.DirFiles)\Latitude_5420_1.49.0.exe" -SecureArgumentList “/s /f /p=$PSecure /l=$env:windir\Key_Logs\Dell_5420_BIOS_1.49_Install.log” -IgnoreExitCodes '1,2' -PassThru

I get this error…
Start-ADTProcess: A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument ‘/s /f /p= /l=C:\windows\Key_Logs\Dell_5420_BIOS_1.49_Install.log'.

But, when I run this…
Start-ADTProcess -FilePath "$($adtSession.DirFiles)\Latitude_5420_1.49.0.exe" -ArgumentList “/s /f /p=$PSecure /l=$env:windir\Key_Logs\Dell_5420_BIOS_1.49_Install.log” -IgnoreExitCodes '1,2' -PassThru

I have no error and everything works.

So the $PSecure variable is an encrypted password, and you can imagine that we wouldn’t want this password showing in the log file; hence -SecureArgumentList.

Any ideas on if there is some sort of syntax issue, or why this doesn’t work with -SecureArgumentList?

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It appears that -SecureArgumentList is just a modifier to -ArgumentList!?!

So, line would read…
Start-ADTProcess -FilePath "$($adtSession.DirFiles)\Latitude_5420_1.49.0.exe" -ArgumentList “/s /f /p=$PSecure /l=$env:windir\Key_Logs\Dell_5420_BIOS_1.49_Install.log” -SecureArgumentList -IgnoreExitCodes '1,2' -PassThru

The documentation in the command reference is not clear.

It would be nice if the SecureArgumentList stated it modifies the ArgumentList parameter to make it secure.

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The documentation clearly says it's a switch...

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I saw that too but I think we need to make the docs more explicit than implicit.