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Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager Cookbook

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Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager Cookbook

Overview of this book

Microsoft System Center Service Manager (SCSM) offers enterprises a complete, integrated platform for automating and adapting IT Service Management best practices to your organization's requirements. "Microsoft System Center Service Manager Cookbook" provides you with real-world, immediately usable recipes which will show you how to configure and administer System Center Service Manager 2012 and understand how to solve particular problems and scenarios to take this tool further. In Microsoft System Center Service Manager Cookbook, you will get to grips with practical recipes which will show you how to configure and administer System Center Service Manager 2012. This cookbook features distinct recipes on the practical implementation of ITSM Frameworks and Processes, Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager Administration, how to configure Service Level Agreements (SLAs). It will also cover incident and problem management, the design of change and release management as well as implementing and editing security roles.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Export your unsealed Management Packs using the Service Manager cmdlets


As part of your backup routines for Service Manager you should always take a backup of your unsealed Management Packs. But in order to take backup of these, you will have to export them from Service Manager first and doing so manually from the Service Manager console every day isn't really an option. A better way to do this is using the Service Manager cmdlets.

How to do it...

The following is a pretty simple script that uses the Service Manager PowerShell cmdlets:

  1. Log on to the Service Manager management server with an account that has Administrator privileges in Service Manager.

  2. Open a PowerShell prompt and run this command to import the Service Manager PowerShell module:

    Import-Module 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012\Service Manager\Powershell\System.Center.Service.Manager.psd1'
    
  3. Once the module has been imported, run the following command (make sure that the target directory exists prior to running the...