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PowerShell – Convert Special Character String Into Numbers

Do you know the situation where you have to handle strings / string data that has a lot of complex characters? In certain situation it is just a pain to deal with strings that have special characters like “*ç%&/()=`è or even an entire Export-CliXML output content. Recently I had the need to embed such data […]

SCOM – Check Size of Databases (SQL Standard Reports)

If you want to know how much space your OperationsManger database is using you could run a SQL Report. Because it is a feature from SQL Server 2008 R2 it’s easily overseen I just want to show an example.

SCOM 2012 – Event ID 20070 Agent Across Slow WAN Links

Since a few weeks I am having a problem with SCOM agents in child domains. I am currently implementing SCOM for an international company which has branch offices in China, US, Germany, Switzerland and other countries. The Active Directory topology has a root domain and for each country a separate child domain. In some of […]