Administrators perform nonrecurring tasks to set up System Center Service Manager 2010 for use in their IT environment by accomplishing administrative tasks in the Service Manager console. Typically, administrative tasks require the user to have the Administrator user role. The following table lists tasks you can perform in the Administration workspace.

In This Section

Task Description

How to Set File Attachment Limits

Describes how to set the number of files and the size of a file that can be attached to an incident.

How to Set Incident Priority

Describes how to define the incident priority based on impact and urgency.

How to Set Resolution Time

Describes how to define the incident resolution time based on incident priority.

How to Set Operations Manager Web Settings

Describes how to specify the URL that Service Manager uses to connect to the Operations Manager 2007 Web console.

How to Create Incident Templates

Describes how to create a template that is used when you create incidents.

How to Configure Your Infrastructure for E-Mail Incident Support

Describes how to configure Exchange Server and SMTP to let users submit incidents by sending an e-mail.

How to Configure Desired Configuration Management to Generate Incidents

Describes how to configure Service Manager to automatically generate incidents when configuration items report as non-compliant against a desired configuration.

How to Configure Incident Workflows

Describes how to create an incident event workflow rule that will change the support tier level.

How to Configure Notification Channels

Describes how to set up a notification channel.

How to Create Notification Templates

Describes how to set up a notification template.

How to Subscribe to Notifications

Describes how to subscribe to a notification and how to subscribe others to a notification.

How to Verify a Notification Configuration

Describes how to verify that notification configuration is set up correctly.

How to Set the Configuration Manager Configuration

Describes how to set the System Center Configuration Manager configuration that is used by Service Manager to retrieve software packages.

How to Set End User Portal Contact IT Settings

Describes how to publish contact information that Self-Service Portal users can view.

How to Configure a Software Deployment Process

Describes how you can configure software deployment processes for approval and deployment.

How to Publish Software Packages

Describes how you can view and publish software packages in the Service Manager console.

How to Configure General Change Settings

Describes how to configure settings used to specify a change request prefix and to define change request attachment limits.

How to Configure General Activity Settings

Describes how to configure settings used to specify prefixes for activities.

How to Configure Change Management Workflows

Describes how to configure change request conditions that can apply a change request template and send notifications.

How to Configure Activity Management Workflows

Describes how to configure activity management conditions that can apply an activity template and send notifications.