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

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786464897

Length 638 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

Concepts

IT Service Management

Authors (5):

Steve Buchanan

Anders Asp

Steve Beaumont

Dieter Gasser

Andreas Baumgarten

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

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

Configuring the Service Requests, Activity, Release, Knowledge, and Change Management global settings

This recipe will provide the steps required to configure the general settings, which apply to all Service Requests, all Activity class types, Release, Knowledge, and Change Management class Work Items.

Getting ready

You must ensure you have successfully installed the SCSM product, are a user in the SCSM Administrators role, and have the SCSM console open. Plan a naming standard for the process prefix and agree a size limitation for attachments.

How to do it...

The following steps will guide you through the process of configuring other global settings:

Navigate to Service Manager Console | Administration | Settings | Knowledge Management Settings and click on Properties under Tasks, as shown in the following screenshot:
Type your organization's agreed prefix under Knowledge article prefix: (for example, replace the default KA with KB). Click on OK to commit your change:
Repeat Step 1 and...