January, 2012

This weekend I was preparing for a DW/Reporting demo at a conference next week.  I know – I need to get a life!  I needed to quickly move data that I was generating on the CMDB side over to the DW and get it loaded up in the cubes.  I didn...

Ever wanted to process all the dimensions in the warehouse?  I did while I was preparing for a presentation.  I got tired of doing them one at a time so I figured out how to do it with PowerShell.  I ran this on my SQL Server that had the...

This blog post was written up by one of the senior developers on our team - Martha Amirzadeh.  Thanks Martha! ============================== One of the common customer requests that we come across is for the ability to add a specific Service Manager...

The Cloud Services Management Pack is now available for download.  It contains: 1) Model extensions for the SCSM CMDB to store additional types of data which are useful for managing a private cloud. 2) Views so that the cloud-related data can be...

One of our Senior Technology Specialists, Tiander Turpijn, has created a really nice extended-length demo video of using System Center 2012 to manage a private cloud.  Lots of great demo scenarios in here that show managing different aspects of a...

This is a guest blog post by Sam Erskine, one of our community contributors. Thanks for sharing Sam! ============================================ The default incident request offering in Server manager 2012 uses the same incident classification...

This is guest blog post from two of our most prolific community contributors Andreas Baumgarten and Anders Asp. Thanks for sharing with the community guys! ================================================== As I already mentioned in my blog post about...

This is guest blog post from two of our most prolific community contributors Andreas Baumgarten and Anders Asp. Thanks for sharing with the community guys! ================================================== Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2012...

I get this question from time to time. People are used to downloading some separate package that includes the SDK because that is how Windows and a few other Microsoft products do it. Since our entire product is built on top of the SDK we ship the SDK...

What do you do when you get a screen like this? Not exactly a lot of information to go on there. Don’t worry, we have a Silverlight log file that system admins can grab to see the details of what the problems are. Here’s how to find the log file. 1) On...