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ServiceNow Cookbook

By : Ashish Rudra Srivastava, Dustin Turner
Book Image

ServiceNow Cookbook

By: Ashish Rudra Srivastava, Dustin Turner

Overview of this book

ServiceNow is the ideal platform for you to create enterprise-level applications, giving borh requesters and fulfillers better visibility and access to a process. With this title we’ll guide you through the world of ServiceNow, letting you take on the best the platform offers you with the least amount of hassle. Starting with the core configuration and management tasks, this book will help you build data-driven apps and it will also explore development best practices. You will learn to set up email notifications for users and work with the database view for reporting. Next, the book will guide you through creating various tasks from the workflow and show you how to make the most of the workflow utilities available in ServiceNow. Finally, the book will drive you through the auditing and diagnosing aspects of ServiceNow. By the end of this book, you will acquire immediately applicable skills to rectify everyday problems encountered on the ServiceNow platform.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
ServiceNow Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Understanding the Service-Now system mailbox


Microsoft Outlook is widely used by many individuals and corporate houses for e-mail communication. If you have worked on Microsoft Outlook, then you will be able to correlate the Service-Now system mailbox effortlessly. This recipe will show you how to check incoming or outgoing of Service-Now e-mails for troubleshooting purposes.

Getting ready

Service-Now has built-in mailboxes called System Mailboxes, which facilitate e-mail communication regardless of inbound or outbound e-mail. To step through this recipe, you should have an active Service-Now instance, valid credentials, and the admin role.

How to do it…

  1. Open any standard web browser and type the Service-Now instance address.

  2. Log in to the Service-Now instance using your credentials.

  3. On the left-hand side in the search box, type system mailbox:

    Search the Service-Now system mailbox

  4. You will be able to see the System Mailbox application on the left-hand side:

    The System Mailbox application

  5. Before going...