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PowerShell – Convert Special Character String Into Numbers

Do you know the situation where you have to handle strings / string data that has a lot of complex characters? In certain situation it is just a pain to deal with strings that have special characters like “*ç%&/()=`è or even an entire Export-CliXML output content. Recently I had the need to embed such data […]

Azure – Azure Mask

I really like to do presentations about the latest and greatest Microsoft Azure technology. One big security problem I always have is that e.g. Subscription ID, email addresses, keys etc. are visible on a big screen or visible in the session recordings afterwards. A very nice tool to hide such sensitive information is a browser […]

SCOM 2007 R2 CU2 – Deploy Agent to Sun Solaris 10 Zone (SPARC)

Today I had a kind of emergency operation to complete. The customer needed a pre-prod Solaris 10 environment monitored with SCOM 2007 R2. The purpose was to get an idea what he could do and to show other teams what it looks like. There was just one small hitch it had to be now (as […]