Monthly Archives: June 2011

SCO (System Center Orchestrator) 2012 Beta 1 – Overview

Posted on 20/06/2011 by

The next Release of Service Manager (SCSM 2012) will be available around end 2011. To drive automation to the next level, SCSM 2012 will contain a connector to System Center Orchestrator 2012 (today known as “Microsoft Opalis”) that allows us … Continue reading →

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Removing Management Packs with Powershell

Posted on 10/06/2011 by

When Management Packs are imported, SCSM does some integrity checks to see if the Management Pack is valid. This indeed makes sense because you immediately know when your Management Pack has errors in the code. But there are also times … Continue reading →

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Make Service Manager Customer-aware – Part 2

Posted on 08/06/2011 by

A while ago I have written an article about customizing Service Manager to make it customer-aware. This was just a simple example of how to assign incidents to different customers. Because this article was (and still is) very popular, I … Continue reading →

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Autoincrement Property IDs

Posted on 04/06/2011 by

I’m writing this blog post while sitting in my car in the middle of a huge traffic jam at famous St.Gotthard in Switzerland (2 hours waiting time) The positive thing is that I have plenty of time to write a … Continue reading →

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