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Remote Support Simplified for the Desktop

We just announced Remote Support Desktop, an easy-to-install, limited desktop experience for Analysts to quickly and easily troubleshoot issues. Designed to pull some of the most desirable features out of Remote Support and put them onto a desktop, Remote Support Desktop gives Analysts quick access to support an individual customer on the fly. For a quick comparison of the features

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RBAC and Entity Scoping: A Perfect Match

Entity scoping is not Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). Some may disagree with this, but it sets the stage for me to start off with this: RBAC differs from access control lists (ACLs) used in traditional discretionary access-control systems, in that RBAC systems assign permissions to specific operations with meaning in the organization, rather than to low-level data objects. With this

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Is a SCSM Web Portal Available? Absolutely. Here’s What You Need to Know.

Discover the SCSM Web Portal When Microsoft Service Manager first came out, it offered a fairly robust system for IT Service Management and Asset Management.  Early on, users faced some pretty common challenges, from few out-of-box configurations, to daunting customization projects, and the inability to give end users web accessibility via SharePoint. Fast forward 10 years and while there is

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Definitive List of SCCM Addons, Tools, Extensions, & Scripts

Here are a variety of free community tools and paid products for Microsoft Configuration Manager, created by Microsoft MVPs, System Center experts, colleagues, and SCCM enthusiasts. These SCCM addons are listed in no hierarchical order and are not specifically endorsed by Cireson. If you have other tools you’d recommend, please let us know! Table of Contents Free Solutions Infrastructure Tools

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Microsoft Service Manager Activity Completion at its Finest

Today we’ll be looking at the new Activity Completion pages within the Cireson Service Manager Portal. These pages are designed to be a landing place where you can redirect users to via email or hyperlink to provide them with a streamlined experience. Primarily, these pages are targeted at occasional users of the Portal, and not your Analysts or Administrators. With

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How to Learn SCSM and Keep Your Skills Fresh

Learn SCSM Earlier this summer we launched our inaugural free SCSM training course on the Cireson Learning platform.  The goal of Cireson Learning is to help you learn SCSM; how to install, configure, and use Microsoft Service Manager, as well as Cireson’s SCSM apps. As a Microsoft Service Manager customer myself, and having built software around SCSM for the past

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The Easy & Secure Way to Pin a Script on a Device

The Easy and Secure Way to Pin a Script on a Device When performing remote support for our customers and end-users, it’s often valuable to have a repository of scripts available for resolving problems that re-occur regularly. There is really no end to the number of these particular problems, ranging from something as simple as locking their account out, all

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How to Add More Powerful Communication into Your Support Processes

Last week I shared how to make the software request approval process easier for Analysts with Cireson Remote Support and SCCM. This week, I’m going to highlight another new feature of Remote Support, User and Device Comments. With our goal of making everyone’s life within the support stack easier and more productive, this functionality enables better communciation between Support Team

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Software Request Approvals Made Easy

Software Request Approvals Made Easy At Cireson, we’re constantly innovating to bring new features and functionality to our products with the goal of making everyone’s life within the support stack easier and more productive. We collaborate with our customers and the community to identify ways to provide Support Teams with the tools to deliver the fastest and most comprehensive Incident

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Remote Support PowerShell Script Control

Imagine being able to give your IT support teams powerful PowerShell scripts, helping them troubleshoot an issue on a device with the safety of them not being able to modify the script, and with everything being fully audited (sounds like a perfect solution). Well, let me introduce you to the PowerShell Scripts app, a great new feature added to the

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