Blog & Resources
Automation Beyond IT
System Center Automation beyond IT has always been a challenge for a majority of firms today regardless of the efforts put forth. System Center automation capabilities rival many workflow engines in today’s market place, especially when extending Service Manager Automation leveraging tools, such as Cireson’s Automation Stream Solution, Orchestrator and Service Management Automation (SMA). In order to take the automation
Understanding Cireson Asset Management – Part 5
This is the final part in a series of articles providing information on asset management from a Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager basis when integrated with Cireson. In this series, we have already introduced the asset management capabilities of Configuration Manager, the limitations of those native capabilities, and then discussed how Cireson’s Asset Management products can provide a
Reduce, Control & Elevate: Password Reset for Active Directory
Cireson continues to do amazing things. Last week marked our official launch of our shiny new password reset Stream as part of the Cireson Platform and within comes the first app, Password Reset for Active Directory. In my post from May, I discussed the Cireson roadmap and our penchant for delivering apps that our clients request from us; the latest
Introducing the Cireson Software Asset Management Enumerator (SAME)
We have just published to CodePlex the Cireson Software Asset Management Enumerators (SAME), which is a community solution developed by the Cireson Partner and Community Enablement (PACE) team to lessen the effort associated with implementing a software asset management strategy with System Center and Cireson. Below, please find the solution description and the download link for the Cireson Software Asset Management
Hitting Limits and Breaking Through – Making Orchestrator Work for You!
If you’ve ever worked with Service Manager, you’ve probably tried to automate a few processes. Now, in a lot of cases, working with System Center Orchestrator will get the job done just fine. The easily installed System Center 2012 Integration Packs encompass a number of functions that you’ll need to use, and in most cases, probably are enough to get
Understanding Cireson Asset Management – Part 4
This is part four in a series of articles providing information on asset management from a Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager basis when integrated with Cireson. In this series, we have already introduced the asset management capabilities of Configuration Manager, the limitations of those native capabilities, and then discussed how Cireson’s Asset Management products can provide a fully
Understanding Cireson Asset Management – Part 3
This is part three in a series of articles providing information on asset management from a Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager basis when integrated with Cireson. In this series, we have already introduced the asset management capabilities of Configuration Manager, the limitations of those native capabilities, and then discussed how Cireson’s Asset Management products can provide a fully
Understanding Cireson Asset Management – Part 2
This is part two in a series of blog articles on providing asset management from a Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager basis. In this series, we have already introduced the asset management capabilities of Configuration Manager, the limitations of those native capabilities, and then discussed how Cireson’s Asset Management products can provide a fully capable asset management solution
Understanding Cireson Asset Management – Part 1
Welcome to the first in a series of blog articles on providing asset management from a Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager basis. In this series, we will introduce the asset management capabilities of Configuration Manager, the limitations of those native capabilities, and then discuss how Cireson’s Asset Management products can provide a fully capable asset management solution that
Installing SMlets on System Center Orchestrator 2012 Server without a Management Server
The title really says it all and I’m not going to re-hash the details and pretend like I came up with this, but I am going to share with you a little trick that will allow you to use this on multiple environments from the same server. First off you will need to install the SMlets and edit the configuration
Solution Accelerator – Decision Engine
A few weeks back, we introduced the Cireson Decision Engine, which is in essence, a Solution Accelerator that we use internally by our Professional Services team to help deliver a dynamic experience to our customers in their Service Manager and Orchestrator projects. Below, please find the outline from this presentation as well as the download link for the Decision Engine
5 interesting facts you probably don’t know about MS Azure
With the pace of change in Microsoft Azure in the last 24 months and the volume of technical, marketing and other content related to Microsoft and the cloud, there is a lot of interesting information that gets lost in the shuffle. I wanted to share a few bits about the core and History of Microsoft Azure I think you’ll find
