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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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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464897
Length 638 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Steve Buchanan Steve Buchanan
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Anders Asp Anders Asp
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Steve Beaumont Steve Beaumont
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Dieter Gasser Dieter Gasser
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Andreas Baumgarten Andreas Baumgarten
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

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 Global Operators Group


There are certain fields in the different forms of SCSM where you are supposed to add a user or group. These fields are called User Pickers, and if you take a look at the incident form there are three User Pickers on the General tab:

  • Affected user

  • Assigned to

  • Primary owner

Some of these User Pickers target the end users, such as the Affected user field, while others target users or groups from the IT department, such as the Assigned to and Primary owner fields.

When searching for a user to add to the User Picker, SCSM will by default search the whole CMDB for users and groups. This is exactly what we want for the User Pickers targeting the end users, but for the User Pickers targeting the IT department, we are not interested in retrieving any users outside of the IT department.

It's very unlikely that we will assign an incident to a person outside of the IT department for instance. To narrow the scope of the User Pickers targeting the IT department...

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