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ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows

By : Tim Woodruff, Martin Wood, Ashish Rudra Srivastava
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ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows

By: Tim Woodruff, Martin Wood, Ashish Rudra Srivastava

Overview of this book

ServiceNow is a SaaS application that provides workflow form-based applications. It is an ideal platform for creating enterprise-level applications, giving requesters and fulfillers improved visibility and access to a process. ServiceNow-based applications often replace email by providing a better way to get work done. This course will show you how to put important ServiceNow features to work in the real world. We will introduce key concepts and examples on managing and automating IT services, and help you build a solid foundation towards this new approach. You will then learn more about the power of tasks, events, and notifications. We’ll then focus on using web services and other mechanisms to integrate ServiceNow with other systems. Further on, you’ll learn how to secure applications and data, and understand how ServiceNow performs logging and error reporting. At the end of this course, you will acquire immediately applicable skills to rectify everyday problems encountered on the ServiceNow platform. The course provides you with highly practical content explaining ServiceNow from the following Packt books: 1. Learning ServiceNow 2. ServiceNow Cookbook 3. Mastering ServiceNow, Second Edition
Table of Contents (39 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Module 1
36
Bibliography

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

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

The System Mailbox application

  1. Before going...