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I have seen the question at Technet forums a number of times, is it possible to merge to incidents? In this post I have built a idea how to do it. When you run it you input two incident numbers. The first number  is the incident that you want to keep, and the second number [...]

I have a couple of Service Manager customers that want to automatically close incidents one day after they are resolved by a analyst. It will save them some manually work. In this post I will show you how to build a workflow that does this. The following example will close incidents that has been in resolved [...]

A common task for service desk is to reset an end-user password. A common scenario is that the operator has to fill in an incident form, start Active Directory Users and Computers console, find the user, reset the password, notify the password over the phone or send it in a e-mail to the end-user. There [...]

From a number of Service Manager customer I have received the question about VIP users. How can we mark incidents from VIP users? In this post I will show you one way to handle incidents incidents from VIP users. We will first extend the domain user class with a new VIP property, then use the default [...]

Today I needed to generate incidents based on a CSV file that a external system generated. There are a couple of different ways to do it, but one simple way is to use the Service Manager PowerShell cmdlets that Patrik wrote. In my example I have a CSV file that looks like I then have [...]

Update: you can download my scripts here Out of the box Service Manager 2010 can generate incident based on incoming e-mails. But there is no default feature to update incidents based on incoming e-mails. In this post I will show you a solution to that. The flow of the e-mail will be A end-user sends [...]

This week my friend Patrik Sundqvist and I delivered a Service Manager event together with Microsoft in Sweden. There were a lot of good questions from the audience and a great interest in the product. One of the questions was if the Active Directory synchronize blank attributes from Active Directory if there is a value [...]

Last week when working with Service Manager I found this event again, in the Operations Manager log on the Service Manager server. Event ID 33880 from Health Service Module. It is generated when you try to send notification to a user, for example affected user, with a notification template that don’t support the user CI [...]