Blog & Resources
Notify a Support Group of a SLO Warning/Breach
Purpose: Send an email notification to a specific Support Group based on a specific SLO Warning/Breach First, I would like to say a few words about Cireson’s attendance of Microsoft’s 2013 Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, Texas. It was great to finally put a face to all the global partners we have been emailing and talking to recently. We saw some familiar
Data Warehouse – custom report Management Pack deployment can fail with Event Ids 33411, 33403 and 33410 during an upgrade
This problem was bugging me sometime back and I’ve only just got around to blogging about it… Suppose you create a SQL Server Reporting Services report and you bundle this report up into a Service Manager Management Pack and deploy it to the Data Warehouse. If you are watching the deployment process running under Data WarehouseManagement Packs, you may see
Cireson Notify Analyst App
Anyone who has ever installed and configured Service Manager knows the pain involved in setting up notification workflows for work item re-assignment. This becomes even more time consuming when setting up notifications for support group changes or reviewer changes. A large part of this pain is because you almost always need to export Management Pack XML and configure relationship subscriptions
Adding a Field to the Right of an Existing Field – SCSM 2012 Authoring Tool
Purpose: Visual part of adding a field to the right of an existing field on the Incident form-SCSM 2012 Authoring Tool. First, I would like to thank all the Microsoft MVP for the Incident Extension blogs and video, and others who have provided information on extending the Incident and Service Request. We all know the Authoring Tool can be tricky.
Different Aspects/Concepts of Configuration Manager’s Application Model
Written by Newton Cunningham at Cireson. There are 3 interesting concepts that need some discussion in regards to the Application Model in Configuration Manager 2012, and they are the following: Maintenance Windows Distribute on Demand Roaming clients In no way are these three items necessities when setting up the application model, but they are new and old items that need to
SCCM – setting up Internet Based Client Management in multiple forests
Lessons Learned with Configuration Manager 2012 Cross-Forest, Internet-Based Client Management Configuration. In a recent implementation, I enjoyed (and cried over) learning some lessons in regards to setting up Internet Based Client Management in multiple forests. There are several things that need to be put into place in order to get Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) 2012 working properly with intranet clients, internet
SCCM – Troubleshooting Client Health
Client Health is an issue with whatever SCCM infrastructure is out there. It can be very tedious work to make all your clients work as they should. Through the help of experience and researching what others have done, I am going to present some effective ways of helping you with troubleshooting your SCCM client’s health.
What’s New in SCCM 2012
The new edition to the System Center Configuration Manager Legacy is System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM 2012). There have been quite a few improvements over its predecessor, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM 2007). These improvements stretch from the big picture improvements in hierarchy to the more granular improvements in custom client settings. This product has made many leaps and bounds from its SMS days. Here are some of the big picture changes that were made.
SCCM Tips – 1: How To Control SCCM Data Storage Location(s)
Your production Windows servers, whether they be physical or virtual all have many common factors, one of which is that they all use storage, presented to the server as data partitions with an associated drive letter.
SCSM – An error occurred while executing a custom action: RollbackCleanup
When installing Microsoft System Center Service Manager (SCSM) 2010, 90% of the time the independent installations of Service Manager or the Data Warehouse are successful.
