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SCSM – Adding Activities Using SMA / PowerShell Workflow

For the past couple of weeks I have been doing some automation stuff using Service Management Automation (SMA) and therefore PowerShell in conjunction with Service Manager. I like PowerShell very much, especially if I can interact with other systems. As you might know in the “old” days you would use Orchestrator and Service Manager to […]

Global Azure Bootcamp Switzerland 2017 – Speaker

This year is the first time I will be speaking at the Global Azure Bootcamp Switzerland together with my buddy MVP Stefan Johner. Stefan and I will talk about Microsoft Operations Management Suite (MS OMS) and put some light on the different pillars of OMS. So what is this Global Azure Bootcamp thing? All around […]

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 […]