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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 […]

SCOMfaq – Sponsored by VEEAM

  Today I am happy to announce my first blog sponsor VEEAM. Because they make great products especially a management pack for monitoring VMWare I am really glad to have them on board and writing about it. You can find more information about their management pack and how to System Center and VEEAM works best […]

Manual SCOM Agent Installation Server Core – Different Forest, No Gateway

Maybe you face a situation where you must install a SCOM agent on a Windows server core e.g. Hyper-V host. Let’s assume the server core is in a different forest and in the target forest you don’t have a gateway server in place. This means you have to get a certificate for each machine/agent and […]