A while ago I wrote a post about integration between SharePoint 2010 and System Center Orchestrator, and the solution has been successfully used so far in my company. Since then, we moved to SharePoint 2013 and Microsoft released their new runbook engine – “Service Management Automation” (SMA) that integrated with the Windows Azure Pack (WAP). […]
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Mail apps for Outlook – Show Sender Information
Mail apps for Outlook makes developing Outlook customizations simple and straightforward. A mail app is just a webpage that is hosted inside Outlook. Outlook activates it and makes it available to the user contextually with respect to the item that the user is currently viewing. The user controls starting any available mail app and the […]
PowerShell SSH Module for Nonstandard Devices Like Cisco ASA
So I needed to automate some configuration tasks on a Cisco ASA firewall, and thought it will be an easy task since it has an SSH interface. But after a couple of failed tries and some searching on the web, I realized that I could not use the standard SSH command mode to access the […]
Administering the LAMP Stack for Effective Web Hosting Solutions
Defining a set of best practices to be used as the foundation for hosting websites can be challenging when the volume of new sites is high and the range of requirements disparate. As effective administration can often depend on finding commonality among diversity, it is important to understand where website requirements overlap to be able […]
Creating custom tasks in System Center Service Manager (SCSM) to send email notifications
Sending email notifications regarding a working item in System Center Service Manager is a common requirement that doesn’t really exist out of the box. Travis had published, a while ago, a plug-in called “SCSM SendEmail”. This plug-in though filling that gap, still was missing some of the common requirements: