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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 […]

SCOM 2012 – Import Multiple Management Packs (Import-SCOMManagementPack)

There are maybe certain situation where you need to import multiple management packs using the “Import-SCOMManagementPack” command. How do you accomplish that? It is easy! Because the command is taking care of the dependencies we just have to provide ALL of the needed management packs in an array. In my example I want to import […]

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 […]