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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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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

Creating Service Offering categories


Service Offering categories in SCSM 2016 can be used to sort Service Offerings in the SCSM 2016 portal. The categories offer the opportunity to filter Service Requests in reports as well as views. The steps to create the Service Offering categories are shown in this recipe.

Getting ready

To create Service Offering categories, open the SCSM 2016 console and navigate to Library | Lists. In the filter field, type Service Offering Category, and the list we need will be shown.

How to do it...

  1. Open the Service Offering Category list.

  2. Click on Add Item.

  3. Choose a management pack to store the new Service Offering category. We will choose the same management pack we used in the previous recipes, Custom.ServiceRequest.Library.

  4. Choose a name of the new category. In this recipe, we will use User Management.

  5. Click on OK:

How it works...

Choosing Service Offering categories as an attribute in Service Offerings provides an opportunity to combine and sort these offerings in the...

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