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System Center Universe Jedi finalists
Earlier this week System Center Universe announced the 3 finalists for the SCU Jedi contest. If you don’t know what the contest is here is the description for it: System Center Universe has a contest...
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System Center 2012 Service Manager Unleashed
I am excited to be a coauthor of another System Center book. This book is on System Center 2012 Service Manager and is a part of the Unleashed series! The book is set to publish in June. The authors...
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Launch a Runbook from a Service Manager Console Task
I recently ran across the question of “How Can I Launch a Runbook from a Console Task?” in this forum thread:...
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Free SCSM, SCOM, DPM Tools for the Community
Wow what an exciting week in the System Center space! Lately there has been several free tools released for various System Center products in the community. I wanted to mention them here in one blog....
View ArticleFree Hyper-V and System Center Training from MVA
More free training coming soon on Hyper-V and System Center from Microsoft Virtual Academy (www.MicrosoftVirtualAcademy.com). This is going to be one event you don’t want to miss. I am also happy to...
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Remove Orphaned Connectors in Service Manager
PROBLEM: Recently I came across a Service Manager environment that had some old SCOM 2007 connectors that were no longer being used. These SCOM 2007 connectors would not remove from the SM console and...
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Service Manager SP1 Update Rollup 4 Error
I recently ran across some problems when trying to update System Center Service Manager SP1 with Update Rollup 4 (UR4) (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40836). Here is the...
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Error installing Service Manager with SQL Alwayson
Recently I was deploying a new Service Manager and I was placing the Service Manager database on a SQL 2012 AlwaysON Availability Group. I was specifying the Database server as Availability Group...
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Microsoft Private & Public Cloud Poster
On August 1st Microsoft released a new Cloud Ecosystem poster. Microsoft has a great Public and Private cloud story. With Microsoft technologies On-premises and public Azure and other Microsoft public...
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Point SCSM DW & WAP Request Management to new SQL server
I recently worked with a client that hosted the Service Manager database on a SQL cluster. They manually failed over the SCSM database to the other node in the SQL cluster. Request Management in Azure...
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Hot off the press: Service Manager 2012 Unleashed book
The System Center 2012 Service Manager Unleashed book is finally done! I received some copies of it on Friday. It is set to publish on Monday October 6th 2014. Here is the link for it and a picture...
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Speaking @ MMS as one of the 3 International System Center Chefs
I am excited to be co-presenting a Service Manager session at MMS 2014 on November 10th. The Midwest Management Summit is a 3-day conference purposely capped to just 500 attendees so that nobody gets...
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New UR’s for SC 2012 R2 & SP1, Updated Exchange 13 MP & more
Wow another exciting day for Microsoft and specifically System Center! Microsoft is moving at a fast pace and doing some cool things. There were several announcements today. These included: Update...
View ArticleService Manager 2012 R2 UR4
I want to take this blog post and help promote Update Rollup 4 for System Center Service Manager 2012 R2. There has been many issues with Service Manager for some time. It is good to see the Service...
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Community tools: Manage SCSM DW Jobs & SCORCH Reporting
One of the many great things about System Center is the rich eco-system within the community. Many System Center guru’s contribute their time to making tools that improve or fill gaps within System...
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Whitepaper – Service Management’s Role in the Private Cloud
I am happy to announce that today Savision just published a new whitepaper authored by me. It is titled: Service Management’s Role in the Private Cloud Dispelling the Myopic Perception This...
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Webinar: Understand what it takes for a successful Private Cloud project
Learn what you can do to ensure a successful Private Cloud project. Attend one of my webinars this week. Details about the webinars include: -“Service Management’s role in the Private Cloud“- hosted by...
View ArticleService Manager PowerShell Extensions – SCSMPx
Recently a colleague of mine Rob Plank brought some new CMDLets for Service Manager to my attention. These are a part of a PowerShell module that can be installed on your Service Manager server. They...
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Did you miss the #ITSM role in #Private Cloud webinar?
Did you miss my recent webinar with Savision about ‘Service Management’s Role in the Private Cloud’? This was co-hosted by Savision’s co-founder and VP of Product Management, Dennis Rietvink. If you...
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Service Manager Discovery Report
I recently built a PowerShell script that creates a discovery report for System Center Service Manager. The idea behind the script was to have something that I could run to gather all of the...
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