PowerShell for SCSM: Use PowerShell Scripts in Workflows
Xapity PowerShell Activity provides a central repository to hold PowerShell scripts - located in the Library section of Service Manager....
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Glen (Xapity)
- Apr 4, 2017
- 5 min
Xapity PowerShell Activity - Features
We think that Xapity PowerShell Activity can change the way you administer SCSM. It can reduce the number of Orchestrator ( SCORCH )...
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Glen (Xapity)
- Feb 22, 2017
- 2 min
Xapity Create Activity and Xapity PowerShell Activity
Xapity Create Activity Xapity Create Activity can be added to Service Manager templates - Change, Release and Service Request - and will...
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Glen (Xapity)
- Feb 20, 2017
- 3 min
PowerShell for SCSM: Pull Data via Relationship to Work Item
Why do you want to do this? Quite often you will need to get data from the another work item and a Service Manager relationship will...
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Glen (Xapity)
- Feb 20, 2017
- 3 min
PowerShell for SCSM: Push Data via Relationship to Work Item
Why do you want to do this? Quite often you will need to get data from the another work item and a Service Manager relationship will...
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Glen (Xapity)
- Feb 20, 2017
- 3 min
PowerShell for SCSM: How to get the parent Work Item of an SCSM Activity
Why do you want to do this? Sometimes you have the ID of an activity and need to get the Parent Change, Release or Service Request. This...
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Glen (Xapity)
- Dec 13, 2016
- 3 min
PowerShell for SCSM: Copy Attachments from Disk to a Work Item
What does it do? This script takes the contents of a folder and attaches all the files to a Change, Release or Service Request. The...
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Glen (Xapity)
- Dec 8, 2016
- 3 min
PowerShell for SCSM: Software Request Example
Software Requests are a very common feature of most self-service portals using SCSM. In this example we will use Xapity PowerShell and...
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Glen (Xapity)
- Dec 6, 2016
- 6 min
SCSM 2016 - Upgrade
Upgrading to System Center Service Manager 2016 can be a straight forward process, but requires careful the planning and testing to have...
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Glen (Xapity)
- Dec 5, 2016
- 3 min
SCSM 2016 - Upgrade Screen Shots
As part of getting ready for SCSM 2016 we had to upgrade some of our labs to the SCSM 2016 RTM version. The good news is that the process...
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Glen (Xapity)
- Nov 28, 2016
- 6 min
PowerShell for SCSM: Updating the Action Log
When running PowerShell scripts in SCSM it is useful to add comments\notes\actions to the Work Item so that others can see what happened....
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Glen (Xapity)
- Nov 25, 2016
- 2 min
Using Xapity Notification Activity instead of Subscriptions
Subscriptions can be very difficult to manage at times. They are sometimes hard to trigger just when you want and some business...
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Glen (Xapity)
- Nov 6, 2016
- 2 min
PowerShell for SCSM: Download Attachments
This script is based on the work of Patrik Sundqvist, www.litware.se from the blog post http://blogs.litware.se/?p=1369 Sometimes you...
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Glen (Xapity)
- Nov 2, 2016
- 4 min
PowerShell for SCSM: Copy Approvers to Child Review Activities
This post shows the PowerShell script that was described in the Activity Work Item Tags blog. Analysts do not like going into activities...
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Glen (Xapity)
- Oct 26, 2016
- 3 min
PowerShell for SCSM: Activity Work Item tags
Using the Xapity PowerShell Activity we are always trying to target particular activities in a workflow. It can be frustrating having two...
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Glen (Xapity)
- Oct 21, 2016
- 3 min
PowerShell for SCSM: Copy Parent Description to Child Activities
In the video promoting the Xapity PowerShell Activity we showed a script that copied the parent description field to the children...
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Glen (Xapity)
- Oct 11, 2016
- 6 min
SCSM PowerShell Links
We have been working with PowerShell recently and wanted to gather the PowerShell links and resources that were specific to Microsoft...
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Glen (Xapity)
- Oct 7, 2016
- 1 min
Xapity Support for SCSM 2016
We a pleased to announce all Xapity Products are now supported on SCSM 2016! System Center 2016 Evaluations can be downloaded from the...
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Glen (Xapity)
- Aug 23, 2016
- 3 min
SCSM Design - Multiple Instances
SCSM Design Considerations - Multiple SCSM Management Groups Designing Microsoft Service Manager for future growth is quite difficult...
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Glen (Xapity)
- Jul 20, 2016
- 2 min
Microsoft SCSM HTML5 Self-Service Portal Customizations
There have been a number of blog posts and articles about the Microsoft HTLM5 Self-Service Portal for System Center Service Manager...
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