Category: System Center Service Manager

Microsoft Virtual Academy: System Center 2012 SP1 Extensibility

New videos for SC 2012 SP1 from MVA are appearing on the horizon. If you cannot wait for the full trainings to be released at MVA you can check them one by one:

I recommend definitely checking the videos for Service Manager because they are led by one of my SC gurus Travis Wright.

Monitoring Service Manager 2012 SP1 – Part 1: Daily Trend + Recap

Peter F. Sheppard from MSFT introduces first one of series of solutions that will provide more advanced monitoring for Service Manager. You can find the description of the solution here.

Backing Up Custom Management Packs in Service Manager

Every SCOM or SCSM specialists knows that backing up custom management packs is one of the most important tasks. Andrew Barton provides a PowerShell script for Service Manager for this task in Partner and Customer Solutions Blog.

MSFT Takes Responsibility for Incompatibility Between Provance and Chargeback Management Pack CostCenterDim and Promises a Fix

Apparently when MSFT built Chargeback Management pack didn’t tested it Provance asset MP and because of that currently it is either Chargeback MP or Provance asset MP. Anyway what done is done, the good thing is that MSFT promises to provide smooth fix for this issue. Full article here.

Overview of Cloud Process Pack for SCSM 2012 SP1

Cameron Fuller managed to play around with the recently released Cloud Process Pack for System Center 2012 Service Manager SP1. Have a look at his overview here.