January, 2012

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...

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...

In this blog we will look at how to develop a custom Silverlight module using the portal WCF service. This module will query for change requests assigned to the currently logged in portal user. Please note that this blog would be easier to understand...

Most of the virtualization related CMDB data is discovered in SCVMM by SCOM and then brought to SCSM by the SCOM-SCSM connector.  This includes things like virtual machines, hosts, host groups, etc.  So – what does the SCVMM-SCSM connector do...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

There is a really important web cast that is happening tomorrow that I wanted to remind you all about. You won't want to miss it. Here is the description of the event. Registration link is below. The definition, business value, and technology...

At the webcast this morning Satya Nadella, President of the Server and Tools Division, and Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President of Management and Security at Microsoft announced the availability of System Center 2012 RC and introduced the new licensing...

So - now that the Release Candidate of System Center 2012 is out and the general availbility is fast approaching you may be starting to get more serious about getting up to speed on System Center 2012. Am I right? Don't even worry! We are here to help...

Here’s a tricky one.  How do you get the GUID ID of a work item using SMLets? First let’s start with getting the GUID ID of a Windows computer object. We could do something like this: Sweet.  Easy. What if we did the same thing with a work item...

Let’s say you wanted to know all the classes that were in a given management pack.  How would you do that?  SMLets of course! If you don’t know the internal name of the MP (e.g. Microsoft.Windows.Library) you can also do something like this...

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...

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 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...