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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 […]

OMS – Linux Agent Send Remote Syslog Messages to OMS

As you know OMS can receive syslog messages from its Linux agents. Well this is nothing special anymore, but there might be use cases where you cannot install a Linux agent or you might have some network devices which need to send syslog messages to OMS because you want to do some deep inspection of […]

SCOM 2012 – Recovery Task Script for Restarting a Windows Service and Depending Services

A while ago there was an issue at a customers side where I had to provide a solution for restarting a Windows service depending on a Windows event log entry. Well this is nothing special and we SCOM guys do it almost every day. The fun part was, that it was a custom service and […]