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Author Archives: Marcel Zehner
Dynamic Service Manager CMDB with System Center Orchestrator
One thing you have to keep in mind with Private Cloud Computing is the fact that requirements for CMDB change dramatically. Not only that your CMDB needs to manage new classes (e.g. Virtualization Hosts, Hypervisors, Guests, Clouds etc.) and Relationships … Continue reading
Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM)
Tagged ci, cmdb, configuration item, connector, dynamic, opalis, orchestrator
6 Comments
MVP 2012 “System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management”
Wow, great news in my mailbox today! I’m very proud to announce that I was awarded Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for “System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management”. That’s a great honor and of course encourages me to continue my … Continue reading
Self Service Software Ordering (using SCSM, SCCM and SCO)
This is something I hear a lot: customers want their end users to be able to order new software for their computers using a self service portal. As soon as the request is approved (if an approval is needed may depend … Continue reading
Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM)
Tagged kiosk, opalis, orchestrator, order, ordering, sccm, sco, scsm, software
29 Comments
Data Cubes in Service Manager 2012 – Part 2/3 (Publishing Reports)
In the first blog post of this series I described the basic handling of data cubes, how to create them and how to slice and dice data by using excel. Now let’s go to the next step with Data Cubes in … Continue reading
Posted in SCSM
Tagged analysis services, analyze, cubes, data cubes, reporting, reports, sharepoint
15 Comments
Marcel@MMS 2012- will you be there?
As every year I will attend MMS 2012 in Las Vegas to get the latest information about Microsoft’s Systems Management and Virtualization products. This year will be of deep interest because of the System Center 2012 platform launch – very exciting! … Continue reading
System Center 2012 Licensing
Microsoft announced the new licensing model for System Center 2012. There are some huge and very interesting changes. I’m gonna point out tho most important ones here … There will be no more “single product licenses” for servers, System Center 2012 … Continue reading
Data Cubes in Service Manager 2012 – Part 1/3 (Overview and basic handling of Data Cubes)
One cool new thing in SM12 is the ability to calculate data cubes that allow analysts to slice and dice data to get relevant information out of the data warehouse. This is a good alternative to regular Reporting which can sometimes … Continue reading
To what CI belongs a specific mail address?
Some months ago I wrote a blog post about getting the SMTP addresses of a User CI. This can be helpful if you need this information in a Opalis/Orchestrator Runbook. Based on this article the question came up if it … Continue reading
Posted in SCSM
Tagged ci, endpoint, group, mail, mail address, notification, preference, user
5 Comments
Access the SM12 Web Portal using an Alias
SM12 brings a new Web Portal that is based on SharePoint. This is pretty cool because you can now combine the Service Manager functionality together with the rich function set of SharePoint. One thing I normally do is creating an alias … Continue reading
Posted in SCSM
Tagged AAM, alias, alternate access mapping, cname, scsm12, sharepoint, sm12, web portal
6 Comments
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