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Service Manager in the cloud with Azure RemoteApp power

October 19, 2014October 20, 2014Anders Bengtsson 1
Service Manager in the cloud with Azure RemoteApp power

Last week I tried Microsoft Azure RemoteApp together with System Center Service Manager. Azure RemoteApp is a service that you can use to support your […]

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Add a runboook activity from a runbook

June 21, 2014Anders Bengtsson 10
Add a runboook activity from a runbook

Earlier this week I needed to add a runbook activity to a Service Request depending on the result from a review activity. I have written […]

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How-to handle monitoring activities in SMA

March 23, 2014March 27, 2014Anders Bengtsson 0
How-to handle monitoring activities in SMA

In Orchestrator we often use a monitoring activity in the beginning of a runbook, for example monitor Service Manager for new incidents. In SMA we […]

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Building a SMA activity for Service Manager

February 26, 2014February 26, 2014Anders Bengtsson 4
Building a SMA activity for Service Manager

Service Manager and Orchestrator are well connected with a connector. It is easy to use Orchestrator runbooks as activities in for example change requests and […]

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Installing the Service Manager Authoring Tool

February 6, 2014Anders Bengtsson 2
Installing the Service Manager Authoring Tool

Today I tried to install the Service Manager Authoring Tool on a couple of different machines. The pre-req check always said that Microsoft Visual Studio Shell […]

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Temporary Permissions with System Center

December 4, 2013December 4, 2013Anders Bengtsson 0
Temporary Permissions with System Center

Do you have multiple accounts for administrator of your IT environment? Do you have for example one local administrator account, one Active Directory administrator account, […]

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Compare Software on Computers

November 10, 2013November 10, 2013Anders Bengtsson 1
Compare Software on Computers

From time to time you need to compare what software are installed on two computers. For example when using a test environment to test a […]

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State tracking and logging in Orchestrator

August 16, 2013August 18, 2013Anders Bengtsson 3
State tracking and logging in Orchestrator

If you have an Orchestrator environment with multiple runbook servers might have notice that when a runbook failover to secondary runbook server the runbook restarts […]

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Copy Notes between Manual Activities

July 8, 2013July 8, 2013Anders Bengtsson 7
Copy Notes between Manual Activities

Let’s say you have multiple manual activities in a service request. Each of these manual activities need the output of previous manual activities. For example […]

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Update Service Manager SLA thresholds with Orchestrator

July 7, 2013Anders Bengtsson 3
Update Service Manager SLA thresholds with Orchestrator

From time to time I get the question if it is possible to pause a SLA in Service Manager. You should write your SLA in […]

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Welcome to contoso.se! My name is Anders Bengtsson and this is my blog about Azure infrastructure and system management. I am a senior engineer in the FastTrack for Azure team, part of Azure Engineering, at Microsoft.  Contoso.se has two main purposes, first as a platform to share information with the community and the second as a notebook for myself.

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