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SCOM 2012 R2 UR7 – Error Running Data Warehouse SQL Script “Invalid object…”

I have been doing SCOM updates for the past few years and I rarely bumped into any issues. If you stick to the recommended procedures, then you will succeed. But recently I bumped into an issue while updating SCOM 2012 R2 UR7. As you know there are installer files which you must run on each […]

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 – Display & Download MPs Using PowerShell Widgets

A nice and sexy way to have the latest management packs at your fingertips is using the new PowerShell widgets. The SCOM product team shows in their example how you could list the management packs using the PowerShell Grid widget. Stanislav Zhelyazkov also provided a script to fully download all management packs with PowerShell. I […]