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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 […]

DSC – xRDSessionDeployment Server Keeps Rebooting

Some time ago I had been doing some interesting deployments using SMA and DSC in a push scenario. What does that mean? SMA is an engine that executes PowerShell (Workflows) at a scalable level and it is THE automation engine for on-premise scenarios, its counterpart in Azure is Azure Automation. DSC is Microsoft’s future way […]

PowerShell – Hash Table Get That Value

When writing scripts I like to use PowerShell ISE or VSCode a lot. It simplifies a lot of your daily scripting tasks like IntelliSense or Snippets. But sometimes these little helper don’t tell always the truth. Why? Well, I show you an example which is quite common. On problem there is if you are working […]