For this February LyncUp call, the product team shared some interesting facts about upcoming improvements in Technical Preview 5. Seems as if we are going to see some pretty cool performance improvements in next version of Service Manager :-) As always you can download the recording and the slides from here. Next meeting will take place on March 15th. Update Rollup 9 As you may already know, Update Rollup 9 has been pulled since it was resetting the customizations because it replaces some unsealed Management Packs and was causing console crashes while opening forms in non-English Service Manager console.…

When creating your own custom forms in Service Manager you may want to tweak your ListViews, especially when working with dates. For example you may want to hide time information for datetime properties. This is actually pretty simple by using BindingBase.StringFormat property The below example shows a ListView definition containing two datetime columns both formatted to show date in the format ‘dd.MM.yyyy’ Properties do not necessary have to be bound to a ListVew column.…

Since everyone is talking about Operation Management Suite (OMS) at the moment, I wanted to take a look at this relatively new cloud service on my own. There are several good blog posts out there which explain what OMS does and what it does not. From a personal point of view I was especially interested in the Linux agent which is available in preview since some weeks. Stefan Roth already wrote a great post about basic architecture and installation of the Linux agent.…