Tag Archives: workflow

Azure Security Center – Workflow Automation

Posted on 13/06/2020 by Marcel Zehner

Azure Security Center (ASC) is your main stop when you need a first broad overview of your environment’s security posture. If there is potential to improve your overall security, ASC will give you recommendations that explain how a specific resource … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure | Tagged asc, automation, azure, azure security center, logic app, response, Security, workflow | 1 Comment

Auto-Deploy Container Images as Azure Container Instances (ACI)

Posted on 08/05/2018 by Marcel Zehner

Containers are pretty new in the Microsoft world, but are quickly getting traction. Microsoft Azure offers lots of container-related services such as Azure Container Instances (ACI), Azure Container Service (ACS), Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) or Azure Container Registry (ACR). I … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged aci, automation, azure container instances, container, docker, docker hub, hub, logic app, logicapp, trigger, webhook, workflow | 1 Comment

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

SCO (System Center Orchestrator) 2012 Beta 1 – Overview

Posted on 20/06/2011 by Marcel Zehner

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 →

Posted in System Center (without SCSM) | Tagged automation, opalis, orchestrator, sco, workflow | Leave a comment

Get the SMTP Address of a User CI

Posted on 17/05/2011 by Marcel Zehner

Due to a notification requirement of a customer, I needed to somehow access the SMTP address of a User CI in the CMDB. This is not that easy, because the SMTP address is not directly stored on the user object, … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged address, notification, opalis, relation, relationship, runbook, SMTP, workflow | 7 Comments

Auto-Assign unassigned Incidents by using the SCSM Extensions V2.0 OIP

Posted on 03/05/2011 by Marcel Zehner

What about days when no one feels responsible for assigning Incidents to Support Groups and/or Analysts? In such cases a workflow that reports unassigned Incidents would be helpful. If needed, the workflow could also assign these Incidents automatically to a … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM) | Tagged assign, auto-assign, automate, automation, opalis, scsm extensions, workflow | 11 Comments

SCSM Extensions V2.0 OIP (Opalis Integration Pack)

Posted on 01/05/2011 by Marcel Zehner

Some weeks ago I released the first Version of the SCSM Extensions OIP. This OIP allows Administrators to create workflows in Opalis to automate things. It contains some activities that are not contained in the SCSM OIP from Microsoft. During my work with Service … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM) | Tagged automate, automation, opalis, runbook, scsm, scsm extensions, workflow | 13 Comments

Creating special Activities – Part 2/2

Posted on 09/02/2011 by Marcel Zehner

Using Activities in Service Manager allows you to collect Information about tasks and build them together in Change Requests. In the first Part I talked about custom activity classes and how to use them in Templates. In the second Part I … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM) | Tagged activities, activity, automate, automation, opalis, workflow | Leave a comment

Service Manager Workflows – Part 1

Posted on 17/01/2011 by Marcel Zehner

To automate tasks, Service Manager brings it’s own Workflow Engine. Using the Authoring Tool you can build detailed Workflows to automate almost any task you want. And the best thing: it’s pretty easy! In this Blogpost Series i will show … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged authoring tool, auto-close, autoclose, automation, powershell, workflow | 8 Comments