Tag Archives: powershell

Speaking at Microsoft Technical Summit 2016

Posted on 03/12/2016 by Marcel Zehner

It’s only a few days until I speak at the largest technical Microsoft conference in Germany. The conference runs from December 6-8 in Darmstadt and I was invited to present my famous “Tesla Management” session.

Posted in Events/Speaking | Tagged azure automation, cortana, log analytics, oms, operational insights, operations manager, PowerBI, powershell, scom, tesla, tesla management 360, vehicle, visual studio | Leave a comment

Speaking at SCU Malaysia 2016 and SCU Australia 2016

Posted on 16/02/2016 by Marcel Zehner

I admit it: I love community conferences and two of the best of them will run in March 2016 in Malaysia and Australia. Both conferences focus on the latest Microsoft products and solutions and will cover technical and strategic topics … Continue reading →

Posted in Events/Speaking | Tagged australia, kuala lumpur, malaysia, meetup, melbourne, mvp, powershell, SCU, scu apac, scu au, sma, speaker, System Center Universe, tesla | Leave a comment

Service Manager: Create a “Reviewers” object by using PowerShell #SCSM

Posted on 18/07/2014 by Marcel Zehner

You might be aware that Service Manager allows you to use Review Activities (RA) in a SR or CR to approve requests. RAs can be easily added to the process in the SCSM console. After adding the RA, you must … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged approval, approver, membership, powershell, ra, relationship, reviever | 4 Comments

SCSM User Role customization using PowerShell and SDK – Part 2

Posted on 12/01/2014 by Marcel Zehner

In the first part of SCSM role customization I showed how you can modify existing user profiles to target additional work item classes. If you followed my post you recognized that when customizing the user profile you can allow specific … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged class, extend, implicit, permissions, powershell, scope, sdk, user profile, user role | 5 Comments

SCSM User Role customization using PowerShell and SDK – Part 1

Posted on 07/01/2014 by Marcel Zehner

In Service Manager one uses user roles to give access to the application. If a user account or a group that a user belongs to is assigned one of those user roles, he will be able to perform specific tasks … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged class, extend, permissions, powershell, sdk, user profile, user role, work item | 7 Comments

SCOM 2012: Put Cluster Node and Cluster Object in Maintenance Mode

Posted on 07/11/2013 by Marcel Zehner

Maintenance Mode is an important concept to suppress alerts for planned maintenance windows. SCOM allows you to put all discovered in maintenance mode. This could be a Windows Computer, a SQL database or a distributed application. Depending on the activation … Continue reading →

Posted in System Center (without SCSM) | Tagged cluster, maintenance mode, node, om, operations manager, powershell, scom, script | 8 Comments

From CI to parent business service – beta version

Posted on 05/10/2013 by Marcel Zehner

When dealing with CIs in Service Manager, you often cannot see if this specific CI belongs to a business service. I created a very first version of a custom task (PowerShell Script) to quickly get that information from any CI … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged business service, distributed application, parent, powershell | 10 Comments

A look at SCSM Workflows and Notifications and how to manage them by using scripts

Posted on 04/07/2013 by Marcel Zehner

I am a lazy guy and whenever possible I try to automate things using PowerShell scripts or System Center Orchestrator runbooks. If you work with Service Manager you know that lots of tasks can be automated by using PowerShell cmdlets … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged core, dll, notification, powershell, rules, smlets, subscription, workflow | 4 Comments

Manage Windows Azure using PowerShell: Part 1 – “The Setup”

Posted on 28/06/2013 by Marcel Zehner

When companies start using Windows Azure it sooner or later comes to the situation that you want to use the same management tools to manage on premise VMs and apps and azure-based VMs and apps. No big deal: Microsoft delivers … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure | Tagged certificate, key, posh, powershell, script, subscription, windows azure | Leave a comment

PDT – Install System Center in 1 (one) hour

Posted on 27/04/2013 by Marcel Zehner

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 gets a bit easier because it … Continue reading →

Posted in System Center (without SCSM) | Tagged automate, automation, deploy, pdt, powershell, toolkit | Leave a comment