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Veeam – Monitoring VMWare and Private Clouds Webinar

Some time ago I wrote a two posts (part 1 and part 2) about the Veeam management pack. Now there will be an online webinar provided by Veeam and Pete Zerger MVP about: Monitor with the “Virtualization Stack” in mind Use the Veeam Management Pack to gain visibility into the cloud Get new reports for […]

SCOM 2016 – What’s New UNIX/Linux Series: File System Discovery e.g. Exclude /tmp

A little pain in SCOM 2012 R2 was, that as soon you installed the UNIX/Linux management packs for your distribution all UNIX/Linux folders were discovered on the file system. This could be lead to a huge list of monitored directories e.g. /tmp, /var… which was not intended to be. To overcome this problem, you would […]

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 […]