Tag: SCOrch

Automate adding AD users to AD groups with SCSM and Orcehsrator

Anders Bengtsson provide us with another guide how to automate the task of adding user to a group with Service Manager and Orchestrator. This is achieved again trough Request Offering with approval in SCSM and a couple of activities in Orchestrator. Read the full article here.

Add User to Group Automated Request Offering Walkthrough

Another great blog post from SCSM Team blog. Read the complete guide here.

System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 CTP2 VHD downloads

Microsoft has published for download System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 CTP2 in form of a VHDs. Every VHD enables you to create a virtual machine to evaluate the different System Center components. Here are the download links:

Service Offering for Password Reset in SCSM Self-Service Portal

Another very useful article for real world scenarios by Anders Bengtsson titled “Password reset with the Service Manager self-service portal”. He is also providing the runbook for password reset for download.

Many thanks to Anders for sharing his work with the community.

Lifecycle Virtual Machines with Service Manager and Orchestrator – A Real World Private Cloud Scenario

Anders Bengtsson one of Microsoft MVPs and author of System Center Service Manager 2010 Unleashed wrote an amazing article titled “VM lifecycle in Service Manager with Orchestrator magic”. Not only he provides the knowledge on how to built lifecycle scenario for virtual machines but also he provides for download the runbooks and the management packs used by him. Such service is often desired by customers and without a lot of effort you can build it by reading the article and taking advantage of provided for download content.