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.
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.
Neil Peterson developed a tool that can execute runbooks from Configuration Manager console. The tool is called Runbook Commander. Read the article to understand how the tool works and watch a short demo here.
In my previous publication I’ve posted the download link and the changes for CTP 2 of System Center 2012 SP1. Now I will give you the link to download the documentation for this update. Find it here.
The second community technology preview of SP1 for System Center 2012 is out. Actually this is not an ordinary Service Pack, Microsoft is actually adding more and more features to System Center 2012:
If you want to try CTP 2 in test environment download it from here.
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