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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 2012 SP1 – Part 2: Audit Collection Services (ACS) Cross Platform Setup

In part 1 we installed the ACS collector, ACS reporting and enabled one Windows server to forward the events to the collector server ACS01. In this part we will install the cross platform part of ACS to collect the events from Linux systems.

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 […]