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Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE) – Part 2: Creating a Folder with a custom Image

Posted on 04/01/2013 by Marcel Zehner

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 other … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged authoring extensions, authoring tool, mp, mpb, visual studio, vs, vsae, xml | 7 Comments

Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE) – Part 1: Creating a new CI Class

Posted on 03/01/2013 by Marcel Zehner

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 Service Manager authoring tool! If it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged authoring extensions, authoring tool, mp, mpb, visual studio, vs, vsae, xml | 19 Comments

Strong name key files for sealing your MPs … hmmmm?!

Posted on 03/07/2012 by Marcel Zehner

You may have heard that sealing Management Packs (MPs) is a good practice. This is definitely the case when you have MPs that contain classes, class extensions etc. because you can reference to those classes from other MPs. Referencing is … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged key pair, mp, private, public, seal, sealed, sn, sn.exe, snk, strong name, unsealed, xml | 2 Comments

Removing Management Packs with Powershell

Posted on 10/06/2011 by Marcel Zehner

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 →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged management packs, mp, remove, smlets | 6 Comments

Autoincrement Property IDs

Posted on 04/06/2011 by Marcel Zehner

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 →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged auto increment, autoincrement, default value, key property, management packs, mp, xml | 15 Comments

Opalis Integration Pack Extension for Service Manager

Posted on 02/04/2011 by Marcel Zehner

I started a new Opalis Integration Pack project that allows administrators to easily communicate with Service Manager. The Integration Pack that Microsoft delivers is great, but some often used activities (I use) are not present and you have to use … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM) | Tagged auto-close, autoclose, automate, automation, export, management packs, mp, opalis | 10 Comments

Bringing discovered SCOM objects to Service Manager – Part 2/2

Posted on 13/02/2011 by Marcel Zehner

In the first part of this series I showed how to synchronize objects that live in SCOM to the Service Manager CMDB. This works fine, but in some situations it’s possible that objects will not be visible – because they … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM) | Tagged class, classes, connector, import, management packs, mp, scom | 5 Comments

Bringing discovered SCOM objects to Service Manager – Part 1/2

Posted on 10/02/2011 by Marcel Zehner

Service Manager allows to build a comprehensive CMDB by using connectors. One very important connector is the SCOM CI connector (System Center Operations Manager) that allows objects that are discovered and monitored by SCOM to be synchronized with the Service … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM) | Tagged class, classes, connector, import, management packs, mp, scom | 2 Comments