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scsmfaq.ch Blog Stats 2012
Happy new year! Another year is gone and I wanted to share the blog stats with my fellow readers and sponsors. Thanks for your support, the many interesting discussions, your endurance and patience . A...
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Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE) – Part 1: Creating a new CI Class
I decided to do a VSAE series that explains how to use the Visual Studio Authoring Extensions to extend and customize Service Manager. This is indeed an excellent extension when Visual Studio is your...
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Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE) – Part 2: Creating a Folder with a...
In part 2 of this VSAE series I will demonstrate how to create folders with custom images to the Management Pack to have a container ready for creating views later on. Make sure you take a look at the...
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Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE) – Part 3: Creating Views by using...
VSAE offers multiple options to create views. You could use the View template or an empty Management Pack Fragment template. For this example however, I decided to use a snippet template to demonstrate...
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Installing the SCSM SSP – Error executing Custom Action...
I had this error today while installing a new SCSM SSP Server in my lab. At the end it was a pretty simple thing to fix, but it cost me some time to figure it out. Just wanted to share with you in case...
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Marcel@MVP Summit 2013
In two weeks I will attend the MVP Global Summit 2013 in Redmond and Bellevue/USA. For this event, Microsoft invites all MVPs worldwide (approx 4000) for a great week of learning, sharing and having...
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Linking Parent/Child Incidents together using Orchestrator
“How can I use SCORCH to link Parent Incidents with Child Incidents?” seems to be a common question that I get a lot. So I decided to write a quick post on this topic. In this example I will use two...
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Documentation of SCSM Relationship Classes
When you are dealing with Service Manager or especially CMDB’s you know that it’s all about relationships. Service Manager delivers tons of different relationships between object classes that will help...
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Adding an ID or auto incrementing property to default classes
We have lots of Service Manager customers that have comprehensive CMDBs where they store all kind of object types and relationships. When defining your very own classes you know that every class should...
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“How to create HP ProLiant objects manually in the CMDB”
Many of my customers start their Service Manager implementation by implementing Configuration Management first. This indeed makes sense, because as soon as objects and relationships are available in...
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MVP 2013 “System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management”– #MVP #MVPBuzz rocks!
Today I received one of the most important Mails of the year My MVP Status was renewed for another year! The MVP program allows you to get in touch with lots of specialists, enthusiasts and geeks, some...
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Another Intake Form – less pain in this (Service Manager) world
Service Desk employees are often faced with the situation that they do not know if the user that is calling is reporting an incident or has a request for service. By using a good questioning technique...
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PDT – Install System Center in 1 (one) hour
If you are a Microsoft System Center enthusiast like me, then you are faced with the challenge to install all those products over and over again. Well, when using the PowerShell Deployment Toolkit this...
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Quick Info: Exchange Connector 3.0 is now RTM and finally supported!
We had to go a long way, but now it’s finally here: the Exchange Connector 3.0 for Service Manager is now RTM and officially supported by Microsoft. You can download it from here –>...
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System Center Universe DACH/Europe (SCU DACH) #SysCtr
Have you ever heard of the famous System Center Universe (SCU) hosted by Catapult Systems? If not then it’s about time to visit http://www.systemcenteruniverse.com and check out the excellent content....
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SQL Query for Custom Reports – concatenate values in 1:many relationships
As soon as it comes to custom reporting in Service Manager, you are sooner or later dealing with SQL queries to get the needed data out of the data warehouse and into your reports. One of my customers...
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System Center Universe 2013 DACH – Registration is now open!
Looking forward to September 2013: For the first time, the event System Center Universe is held in Switzerland! During two days, IT professionals are supplied with the latest information about...
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Rebranding: scsmfaq.ch is now marcelzehner.ch, @SCSMfaq is now @marcelzehner!
I started my blogging and social media career more than 2.5 years ago with the idea to share Microsoft System Center Service Manager stuff with the community. Because of the strong focus on Service...
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Bringing VMware CIs from SCOM to the SCSM CMDB (using Veeam MP V6)
When using Microsoft System Center to manage VMware infrastructures you will very fast get in contact with the awesome SCOM management pack from Veeam. If you want to know more on how to install and...
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Windows Azure Services for Windows Server, SPF and SCVMM – Managing Tenants...
SPF, short for service provider foundation, adds multi-tenancy capabilities to your System Center environment by offering a web service that in the backend will talk to other management products like...
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