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Microsoft System Center 2016 Service Manager Cookbook

You're reading from   Microsoft System Center 2016 Service Manager Cookbook Discover over 100 practical recipes to help you master the art of IT service management for your organization

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Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464897
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Steve Buchanan is a Director, & Midwest Containers Services Lead on the Cloud Transformation/DevOps team with Avanade, the Microsoft arm of Accenture. He is an eight-time Microsoft MVP, and the author of six technical books. He has presented at tech events, including Midwest Management Summit (MMS), Microsoft Ignite, BITCon, Experts Live Europe, OSCON, and user groups.nnSteve is focused on transforming the position of IT into a driver of digital transformation through ITSM, DevOps, & CloudOps. He stays active in the technical community & enjoys blogging about his adventures in IT at www.buchatech.com.
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Steve Beaumont has worked for more years than he cares to admit within IT, starting with desktop support. He is now the Product Development Director of PowerONPlatforms and a Microsoft MVP within the Cloud and Datacenter Management area, where he helps organizations realize the benefits of the hybrid cloud. He is also a co-author of the Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager, Orchestrator and Operations Manager cookbooks. His passion for everything about System Center, Azure and IT systems management reflects through all areas of his work, presentation and day-to-day life in the form of new and innovative solutions brought to market by PowerONPlatforms.
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Dieter Gasser is an IT consultant and the management partner of itnetX AG, headquartered in Switzerland. He has a strong focus on the delivery and customization of Service Manager. Dieter has been working in IT for more than 13 years, and has focused on Microsoft technologies. He started his career as an application and database developer, and later became the IT manager of an international manufacturing company. In 2010, he entered the systems management and automation market. With both his technical and managerial backgrounds, he has focused on Service Manager. Together with his colleagues, he delivers data center management, automation, and cloud solutions based on Microsoft System Center to customers all across Switzerland.
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Andreas Baumgarten is a Microsoft MVP and works as an IT Architect with the German IT service provider H&D International Group. He has been working as an IT professional for more than 20 years. Microsoft technologies have always accompanied him, and he can also look back on more than 14 years' experience as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Since 2008, he has been responsible for the field of Microsoft System Center technology consulting and ever since has taken part in Microsoft System Center Service Manager (2010, 2012, 2012 R2 and 2016); additionally, he has participated in the Microsoft System Center Technology Adoption Program with H&D since many years. With his deep inside-technology know-how and his broad experience across the Microsoft System Center product family and IT management, he now designs and develops private and hybrid cloud solutions for customers all over Germany and Europe. In July 2017, he was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) title for System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management for the sixth year in a row.
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Preface 1. ITSM and ITIL Frameworks and Processes FREE CHAPTER 2. Personalizing SCSM 2016 Administration 3. Configuring Service Level Agreements (SLAs) 4. Building the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) 5. Deploying Service Request Fulfilment 6. Deploying and Configuring the HTML5 Self-Service Portal 7. Working with Incident and Problem Management 8. Designing and Configuring Change Management and Release Management 9. Implementing Security Roles 10. Working with the Data Warehouse and Reporting 11. Extending SCSM with Advanced Personalization 12. Automating Service Manager 2016 13. Whats New in SCSM 2016 and Upgrading from SCSM 2012 R2 A. Community Extensions and Third-Party Commercial SCSM Solutions B. Useful Websites and Community Resources

Chapter 2.  Personalizing SCSM 2016 Administration

In this chapter, we will provide recipes for the initial configuration tasks an SCSM administrator should perform following a successful installation of the environment. We will cover the following areas and topics:

  • Configuring how long to keep your SCSM data
  • Configuring the Incident Management global settings
  • Configuring the Problem Management global settings
  • Configuring the Service Requests, Activity, Release, Knowledge, and Change Management global settings
  • Configuring the behavior of child incidents when resolving, reactivating, and closing the parent incident
  • Configuring the priority and urgency for your SLA targets
  • Creating Management Packs to save your SCSM personalization
  • Creating a configuration item group
  • Creating a basic queue
  • Creating SCSM console tasks
  • Configuring global e-mail notification infrastructure settings
  • Creating formatted e-mail notification templates
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Steve Buchanan is a Director, & Midwest Containers Services Lead on the Cloud Transformation/DevOps team with Avanade, the Microsoft arm of Accenture. He is an eight-time Microsoft MVP, and the author of six technical books. He has presented at tech events, including Midwest Management Summit (MMS), Microsoft Ignite, BITCon, Experts Live Europe, OSCON, and user groups. Steve is focused on transforming the position of IT into a driver of digital transformation through ITSM, DevOps, & CloudOps. He stays active in the technical community & enjoys blogging about his adventures in IT at www.buchatech.com.
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Dieter Gasser is an IT consultant and the management partner of itnetX AG, headquartered in Switzerland. He has a strong focus on the delivery and customization of Service Manager. Dieter has been working in IT for more than 13 years, and has focused on Microsoft technologies. He started his career as an application and database developer, and later became the IT manager of an international manufacturing company. In 2010, he entered the systems management and automation market. With both his technical and managerial backgrounds, he has focused on Service Manager. Together with his colleagues, he delivers data center management, automation, and cloud solutions based on Microsoft System Center to customers all across Switzerland.
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Andreas Baumgarten is a Microsoft MVP and works as an IT Architect with the German IT service provider H&D International Group. He has been working as an IT professional for more than 20 years. Microsoft technologies have always accompanied him, and he can also look back on more than 14 years' experience as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Since 2008, he has been responsible for the field of Microsoft System Center technology consulting and ever since has taken part in Microsoft System Center Service Manager (2010, 2012, 2012 R2 and 2016); additionally, he has participated in the Microsoft System Center Technology Adoption Program with H&D since many years. With his deep inside-technology know-how and his broad experience across the Microsoft System Center product family and IT management, he now designs and develops private and hybrid cloud solutions for customers all over Germany and Europe. In July 2017, he was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) title for System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management for the sixth year in a row.
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Steve Beaumont has worked for more years than he cares to admit within IT, starting with desktop support. He is now the Product Development Director of PowerONPlatforms and a Microsoft MVP within the Cloud and Datacenter Management area, where he helps organizations realize the benefits of the hybrid cloud. He is also a co-author of the Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager, Orchestrator and Operations Manager cookbooks. His passion for everything about System Center, Azure and IT systems management reflects through all areas of his work, presentation and day-to-day life in the form of new and innovative solutions brought to market by PowerONPlatforms.
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