Orchestrator is Dead, Long Live Automation If you reading this blog and are considering installing Orchestrator 2016/2019 – stop. Don’t. Do not pass go, do not collect your salary. Save your time and energy. Seriously, we know other consultants that are still getting requests for proposals to install System Center Orchestrator, but now is not …
I’m not sure if its laziness, a product of being “too busy,” or brilliance but people seem to love Spiceworks hashtag system. For those of you not aware, Spiceworks allows your helpdesk analysts to email the ticketing system with a # and a word or words behind it to automatically have it close and assign …
There is quite possibly nothing more annoying than having your Citrix session freeze. You’re working doing well, and then out of nowhere you can’t do anything or you leave for a break and come back and cant do anything. You then have to put in a helpdesk request which could take who knows how long …
So we cleaned up our managers in Active Directory, we can now have managers find their direct reports in the Service Manager Self-Service Portal, right? Wrong. Unfortunately Microsoft doesn’t store the manager in the correct format that the portal wants, which is domainnameusername. I really hope Microsoft fixes this in the next version of Service …
This runbook is inspired from Anders’ manager runbook he includes in his Password Reset runbook. Found here http://contoso.se/blog/?p=3085. Unfortunately in the environment I implemented this in, almost none of our managers actually had “manager” in their title, so his runbook would not work in its current configuration. In fact there was no unified keyword for …
I wanted to build a System Center playground for me to play in and be able to break things and then of course fix them. What better way than a home lab. Why Hyper-V? Well, because that is what the majority of my work infrastructure is on. And because of its integration into System Center. …
If you are running Citrix or Microsoft RDS you know that occasionally, or sometimes frequently, user sessions get stuck and need an admin to kick them off. Or you have a ton of “disconnected” users taking up licenses preventing new sessions from starting, this generally requires an admin to login to the Citrix console, whether …