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Visio Management Pack Designer – “The dependencies for this management pack cannot be located”

This year Microsoft released the Visio Management Pack Designer (VMPD) a tool to design and create SCOM management packs using Visio. Basically it is a plug-in for Visio 2010 SP1 which adds management pack “stencils” and after the design process you are able to check for errors and then compile the “drawing” into a management […]

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 2012 SP1 – Part 3: Audit Collection Services (ACS) Testing Cross Platform Logging

In part 1 and part 2 we installed ACS for collection Windows and Linux events. In part 3 I am going to show how the cross platform ACS works in an easy example. In part 2 we had a close look at a specific rule called Delete User. I think this is a perfect example […]