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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 – Discovery Wizard running forever

I experienced in a relatively small environment that the Discovery Wizard in SCOM 2012 is running forever. I rejected some pending agents which were discovered properly but stayed in a “Installation in progress” state. After I rejected these agents and wanted to re-discover these servers the Discovery Wizard kept runnig forever.

Azure Policy – Add Date/Time Resource Group Tag

Have you ever tried to figure out the creation date of a resource group in Azure? As easy it may sound as difficult it is. I needed a timestamp, because I wanted to do some automation. So first I expected to see a timestamp in Azure Resource Graph. Well, this did not work and a […]