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Getting Service Manager Incidents with PowerShell
So far in these blogs, I’ve not addressed one of the main focuses of Service Manager which is how to manage incidents. In Service Manager, incidents are more than simple instances, they’re what’s...
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Testing the Integrity of a Management Pack
When I’m creating a new management pack, I want to be sure that the management pack is valid before I import it. I know that if it’s wrong, the system won’t import it, but I generally like to know...
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More and more with management packs
I’ve been a little slow in updating here, but that doesn’t reflect any inactivity, just my poor rhythm for posting. Earlier in the year I did a post on what was possible to do in a single line of...
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Saving Service Manager Instances in a CSV file
In a post I did a few months ago, I wrote how it you can retrieve data from Service Manager via a PowerShell script, but I didn’t show much more than just plain output. Earlier this week I was asked...
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Service Manager Announcements
I’ve written in previous blogs on how to get data out of Service Manager, and generally, that data is usually simple text, numbers or sometimes an enumeration (which is pretty easy to convert to...
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missing in action
Clearly i haven’t posted for a long while, and while there are many reasons which I don’t need to go into, it’s not because I’ve been slacking. Most recently, I’ve been working on a codeplex project...
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A tool for table formatting
As I was working on the SMLets CodePlex project, I created a bunch of new cmdlets and I wanted to make sure that the output looked good and was useful. In order to do that I needed to sling a bunch of...
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Retrieving projection data with PowerShell
There are a number of cmdlets in the SMLets project (http://smlets.codeplex.com) which retrieve data from Service Manager. To reduce the amount of data in getting simple instances from Service Manager,...
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A Little Dusty
I need to blow the dust off this sight. About 2 months ago I rejoined the PowerShell team after a 7 year hiatus. I’ve continued to use PowerShell everyday, and I’m excited to be part of the team again....
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A little of this, a little of that
Last week I had a delightful time at the EU PowerShell summit in Amsterdam (http://twitter.com/PSHSummit) and the Dutch PowerShell User Group (http://www.dupsug.com/?page_id=914). One of the talks I...
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