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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 […]

PowerShell – Change Windows Service Login to Group Managed Service Account

Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA) are an awesome way to have Active Directory taking care of password changes for the service accounts. How to create Group Managed Service Accounts and how to assign them to Windows services you will find plenty of articles and blog posts on the internet. Group Managed Service Accounts solve you […]

SCOM 2012 Maintenance Mode Script – Computer maintenance mode depending on SCCM 2012 collection membership

Maintenance mode is always something you are facing during System Center setups. Let’s say you have a SCCM administrator who want’s to deploy it’s Windows updates on a certain day e.g. Tuesday @ 08.00 p.m. o’clock, and he also decides to reboot each server forcefully after successful deployment. Because we (SCOM administrators) have to find […]