MVP: System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management
“Dear Anton Gritsenko,Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2012 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high...
View ArticleHow it’s works: token [mygroups]
With SCSM 2012 (SP1 and R2) we can use three different tokens: [now], [me] and [mygroups]. If two of them are simple and already described (here small help about [now]), than [mygroups] is more complex...
View ArticleEnumeration value in XML criteria
If you often using the XML criteria in SCSM (with SDK or in view with Advanced View Editor) then you can faced with two different notation used as value for properties of enumeration type (like Status,...
View ArticleHow to “fast remove” SMPortal from management server
Since SCSM 2012 SP1, any component of SMSM self-service portal can’t be located on management server (technically, this will work, but not supported any more). But if you using SCSM since 2010 or 2012,...
View ArticleTroubleshooting SCSM update process crash
Sometimes you can’t install update rollup for SCSM because right after you press Install button on first page, the update process crashed. This issue came from very early versions of the SCSM and still...
View ArticleHow to get Guid of management pack element even before import MP to SCSM
Sometime you need to know the internal ID (Guid) of management pack or management pack element before the MP imported to SCSM. This can be done very easy using some T-SQL magic. All queries below must...
View ArticleHow to manage custom user role profile in SCSM
The role model in Service Manager is quite complex and contains many levels: a scopes, a user roles and a user role profiles. Although scope and user roles are well documented and available in UI, the...
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