diff --git a/common/src/main/java/com/microsoft/alm/helpers/StringHelper.java b/common/src/main/java/com/microsoft/alm/helpers/StringHelper.java
index 0067a62a..efb15ffb 100644
--- a/common/src/main/java/com/microsoft/alm/helpers/StringHelper.java
+++ b/common/src/main/java/com/microsoft/alm/helpers/StringHelper.java
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 public class StringHelper {
     private static final Charset UTF8 = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
 
+    private static final Charset UTF16LE = Charset.forName("UTF-16LE");
+
     public static final String Empty = "";
 
     public static boolean endsWithIgnoreCase(final String haystack, final String needle) {
@@ -193,6 +195,17 @@ public static byte[] UTF8GetBytes(final String value) {
         return result;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Encodes all the characters in the specified string into a sequence of UTF-16LE bytes.
+     *
+     * @param value The string containing the characters to encode.
+     * @return A byte array containing the results of encoding the specified set of characters.
+     */
+    public static byte[] UTF16LEGetBytes(final String value) {
+        final byte[] result = value.getBytes(UTF16LE);
+        return result;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Decodes all the bytes in the specified byte array into a string.
      *
@@ -204,6 +217,17 @@ public static String UTF8GetString(final byte[] bytes) {
         return result;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Decodes all the bytes in the specified byte array into a string.
+     *
+     * @param bytes The byte array containing the sequence of bytes to decode.
+     * @return A string that contains the results of decoding the specified sequence of bytes.
+     */
+    public static String UTF16LEGetString(final byte[] bytes) {
+        final String result = new String(bytes, UTF16LE);
+        return result;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Decodes a range of bytes from a byte array into a string.
      *
@@ -216,4 +240,17 @@ public static String UTF8GetString(final byte[] bytes, final int index, final in
         final String result = new String(bytes, index, count, UTF8);
         return result;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Decodes a range of bytes from a byte array into a string.
+     *
+     * @param bytes The byte array containing the sequence of bytes to decode.
+     * @param index The index of the first byte to decode.
+     * @param count The number of bytes to decode.
+     * @return A string that contains the results of decoding the specified sequence of bytes.
+     */
+    public static String UTF16LEGetString(final byte[] bytes, final int index, final int count) {
+        final String result = new String(bytes, index, count, UTF16LE);
+        return result;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/storage/src/main/java/com/microsoft/alm/storage/windows/internal/CredManagerBackedSecureStore.java b/storage/src/main/java/com/microsoft/alm/storage/windows/internal/CredManagerBackedSecureStore.java
index 4b4f2cff..ea31537e 100644
--- a/storage/src/main/java/com/microsoft/alm/storage/windows/internal/CredManagerBackedSecureStore.java
+++ b/storage/src/main/java/com/microsoft/alm/storage/windows/internal/CredManagerBackedSecureStore.java
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ public E get(String key) {
                 final CredAdvapi32.CREDENTIAL credential = new CredAdvapi32.CREDENTIAL(pcredential.credential);
 
                 byte[] secretBytes = credential.CredentialBlob.getByteArray(0, credential.CredentialBlobSize);
-                final String secret = StringHelper.UTF8GetString(secretBytes);
+                final String secret = StringHelper.UTF16LEGetString(secretBytes);
                 final String username = credential.UserName;
 
                 cred = create(username, secret);
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ public boolean add(String key, E secret) {
 
         final String username = getUsername(secret);
         final String credentialBlob = getCredentialBlob(secret);
-        byte[] credBlob = StringHelper.UTF8GetBytes(credentialBlob);
+        byte[] credBlob = StringHelper.UTF16LEGetBytes(credentialBlob);
 
         final CredAdvapi32.CREDENTIAL cred = buildCred(key, username, credBlob);