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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 Linux Monitoring (Lab) – Part 1 Setup SUSE 11.1

This time I wanted to try LINUX monitoring using SCOM 2012. It has been a long time since I used to setup a LINUX system and it took me a short time to remember all the basic commands. Although you don’t need that much shell hacking but it always helps if you know at least […]

Azure Monitor – Application Insights Web Test Query Azure Resource Graph

Back in the good, old SCOM days, there was a thing called Global Service Monitor (GSM) which is still available. What was / is GSM? System Center Global Service Monitor is a cloud service that provides a simplified way to monitor the availability of external-web-based applications from multiple locations around the world. One of the […]