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SCOM 2012 Agent Failover – An Event Log Check

Sometimes we need a sign to check that some things happen . For me I wanted to visualize and verify if a SCOM agent failed over properly or not. As you might know the Windows agents do not report to a SCOM 2012 resource pool. If you install an agent on a Windows server the […]

PowerShell – Change Windows Service Login to Group Managed Service Account

Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA) are an awesome way to have Active Directory taking care of password changes for the service accounts. How to create Group Managed Service Accounts and how to assign them to Windows services you will find plenty of articles and blog posts on the internet. Group Managed Service Accounts solve you […]

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 […]