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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 […]

SCOM 2012 R2 – Integrate SC Advisor Website

If you talk to people for example at System Center Universe DACH you get ideas and also solutions right from the experts. Well this time, I was having dinner with Cameron Fuller (THE SCOM guru) from Catapult Systems , just a simple idea came up. As you know System Center Advisor will be available as […]

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 […]