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PowerShell – Create a Credential Object with NULL Password

In one of my automation tasks I had the need to create a credential object with a $null password – an empty / NULL password. One easy way to do is, create just instantiate a new secure string object using the new() constructor from the .Net class like this: or using New-Object cmdlet like this […]

SCOM – Failed SCOM Agent Installation Error Code 80004005

Today I bumped into an issue, while deploying a SCOM 2012 SP1 agent to a Windows 2003 server. The task failed with the following error… In English it says that “The MOM Server could not execute WMI Query “Select * from Win32_Environment where NAME=’PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE’” on computer server.domain.com.” Error Code: 80004005. The server I wanted to […]

SCOM 2012 SharePoint Dashboard – Part 2

In SCOM 2012 SharePoint Dashboard – Part 1 I showed you how to add a SCOM Dashboard to SharePoint site. Because I am using the SharePoint Foundation 2010 so far only SCOM Admins and Operators would have access. Except you would configure shared credentials in SharePoint which is not supported in the SharePoint Foundation version. […]