Archive for June, 2010

Reset Password with Service Manager

Posted: 21st June 2010 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Service Manager

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 [...]

Handle VIP Users in Service Manager

Posted: 10th June 2010 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Service Manager

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 [...]

Create incidents based on a CSV file

Posted: 7th June 2010 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Service Manager

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 [...]

Check Last Line Only

Posted: 4th June 2010 by Anders Bengtsson in Scripts, System Center Operations Manager 2007

I wrote a script to check only the last line of a file. The scripts checks the last line every time it run. If you search my blog you will find a number of script to read logfiles. Create a new two state script monitor where you include the script below.  In my example script [...]