Service Management Automation: Dealing with failure
I’ve been working some more on SMA the last couple of weeks. If you read my previous blog posts you’ll know that I’m not entirely happy about how SMA lacks a real versioning component, although it is...
View ArticlePowershell Workflow peculiarities #1: Parameter naming when calling...
Update: I got feedback from several PowerShell MVPs that the problem I encounter below is caused by using a parameter named “id” (Thanks Alexandar and Jan Egil). So, never ever use “id” as a parameter...
View ArticlePowershell Workflow peculiarities #2: Using the “where” cmdlet
This isn’t actually a peculiarity, as the fact is very well documented when using workflows: You can’t rely on positional parameters in the “native part” of a PowerShell workflow. Most of the time...
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A more refined way of getting your runbooks published into SMA using code
Update: If you read this, be sure to read this (finished code for smart publishing) If you have worked with SMA for more than just preparing for giving a demo (pun very much intended), you have no...
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A finished example of “smart” SMA runbook publishing
UPDATE 24.09.2014: I got some feedback on these posts regarding SMA and publishing using PowerShell, which pointed me to SMART, which is a collection of scripts for doing various SMA-related things....
View ArticleSMA-CI: Continous Integration adventures with System Center Service...
This is part 1. Part 2 is here: http://wp.me/p1FgqH-bO If you've read this blog for a while, you know that I'm not a huge fan of the "original" System Center Orchestrator (Opalis) product. Its promise...
View ArticleSMA-CI: Continous Integration adventures with System Center Service...
This is part 2. Part 1 is here:http://wp.me/p1FgqH-bJ So, to pick up where I left off: I wanted to see if it's possible to add a bit of continous integration to the process of managing SMA runbooks....
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