Once more I am very excited to be part of one of the best IT conferences in Europe – Experts Live Europe. The 3 conference days are taking place from August 23 – 25 in the Berlin Congress Center in Berlin Germany and will bring together the Microsoft IT Pro Community from all over the […]
Service Manager
SCSM 2016 / SCOM 2016 – SCOM 2016 Console Crashes After SCSM 2016 Console Installation
Have you ever installed System Center Service Manager 2016 and System Center Operations Manager 2016 console on the same system? Depending on the installation order, the SCOM console will crash with multiple errors like this… …and the console will appear empty or crash totally. We had the case, that the SCOM console was installed first […]
Experts Live Switzerland 2017 – Speaker
I am very proud to be speaking at Experts Live Switzerland 2017. I will have a talk together with my buddy Jonas Feller from itnetX. We both have gained a lot of experience in the past, doing on-premise automation projects and this is also the title of our session “On-premise Automation using System Center Service […]
E2EVC – Session “Business Process Automation – How it is done in a real world scenario”
Everyone talks these days about automation, services and self-service. Rarely you will find a session which is showing you a real world case showing how it is really done. I am happy to speak at the “Experts 2 Experts Virtualization Conference” in Lisbon together with my wingman Stefan Johner http://jhnr.ch/. The event takes place from […]
SCSM – Set Work Item State / Activity State via PowerShell
I do currently a lot of automation and today I had a need to change state of a service request. The service request itself was “Closed” and as you might know, you cannot change anything if the work item is set to “Closed”. Because I needed to trigger the runbook activities behind the service request […]
SCSM – Passing Attachments via Web Service e.g. SMA Web Service
If you do automation in a “Microsoft World” you probably start these days with Service Manager and Service Management Automation (SMA). At one point you will have a need for building a connector to another system for exchanging data. One example could be that you need to submit incident data from Service Manager to another […]
SCOM 2012 / SCSM 2012 – CMP Tool V 1.0 (Compare Management Pack Tool)
This blog has been quiet for some time because I was quite busy with all kind of stuff. Anyway, this time I would like to share a tool I created to compare management packs in SCOM /SCOM or SCOM/SCSM, SCSM/SCSM management groups. In real life it is hard to compare the current management packs installed […]
System Center – RSS Feeds Collection
It doesn’t matter If you are new to the System Center stack or if you have been working many years in the System Center field, we all share the same problem. How are we keeping up with this massive amount of information dropping in every single day? There are so many excellent sources out there […]
SCSM – Get Service Request Object From Any Nested Child Runbook Activity
When you are starting to automate stuff in your cloud environment you probably use SMA for automation and Service Manager to trigger the necessary runbooks in SMA. As this is really great stuff you will start facing many new challenges because you have to script in PowerShell to achieve your goals. Depending on your architecture […]
SCSM – SMLets “The criteria could not be parsed. See inner exception for details.”
If you are using the SMLets from codeplex in combination with PowerShell remoting to retrieve information from Service Manager it could well be that you hit this error: The criteria could not be parsed. See inner exception for details. + CategoryInfo : OperationStopped: (:) [], InvalidCriteriaException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : The criteria could not […]