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SCSM – Adding Activities Using SMA / PowerShell Workflow

For the past couple of weeks I have been doing some automation stuff using Service Management Automation (SMA) and therefore PowerShell in conjunction with Service Manager. I like PowerShell very much, especially if I can interact with other systems. As you might know in the “old” days you would use Orchestrator and Service Manager to […]

DSC – xRDSessionDeployment Server Keeps Rebooting

Some time ago I had been doing some interesting deployments using SMA and DSC in a push scenario. What does that mean? SMA is an engine that executes PowerShell (Workflows) at a scalable level and it is THE automation engine for on-premise scenarios, its counterpart in Azure is Azure Automation. DSC is Microsoft’s future way […]

SCOM 2012 Veeam MP for VMware 5.7 – Part 2 Overview

In part 1 I wrote about setting up and configuring the Veeam management pack. Now in this post I would like to give you some additional information how it is going to look like in the monitoring pane in SCOM and also some ideas what is being monitored. 1) Views I know it is maybe […]