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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, Get-SCSMObject provides a filter parameter which lets you provide a simple property/operator/value triad to reduce the amount of data that is retrieved from the CMDB. [...]

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 XML and create my own formatting file. If you’ve ever looked at the [...]

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 (http://smlets.codeplex.com) which uses PowerShell to interact with Service Manager (i’ve been working on Service Manager for a while). The project has been great [...]

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 text). However, Service Manager also allows you to store text with formatting (rich text data) which can be pretty difficult to [...]

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 if it would be possible to export configuration items in a CSV file. By using [...]

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 PowerShell. In this post, I’m going to take that further and explore this in more detail. [...]

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 these things before I try. In order to do that, I wrote a pretty simple script [...]

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 called a “projection”. Jakub has some great postings on projections (here and here), so I’m not going to go into detail about [...]

Sometimes, when I am developing a demo for Service Manager, I wind up creating a lot of Service Requests or Incidents when I’m trying to get the demo just right. However, after I’ve gotten everything working just like I want and then I give the demo, I don’t really want to have all those earlier [...]