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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 […]

SCSM – SMLets “The criteria could not be parsed. See inner exception for details.”

If you are using the SMLets from codeplex in combination with PowerShell remoting to retrieve information from Service Manager it could well be that you hit this error: The criteria could not be parsed. See inner exception for details.     + CategoryInfo          : OperationStopped: (:) [], InvalidCriteriaException     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : The criteria could not […]

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.