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TIC's. ITIL tools. Educación, TICs, formación y mucho más! FreeOS. Freecode. Troysblog. Someone recently reminded me that it is always easier to edit than to create from scratch.

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So in keeping with the release of our New Book on the importance of the IT Service Catalog I thought the readers of this blog might appreciate some links to examples available on the web. However, before you go on to navigate the links in search of example service definitions I want to qualify that these links do not necessarily represent the best practices we discuss in our book. That being said they do provide you with a glimpse at some real organizations that are kind enough to put their cookies on the table for all to sample. Important Note: Pink has just released an exciting new Online Education Offering Service Catalog Implementation Overview.

Receive practical guidance, an online version of our Service Catalog Book and useful templates. Hey troy, who would that “someone” be? Page 1 of 1 pages. Give your ideas free rein with these five brainstorming apps - TechRepublic- 9. HelpDesk. Leading Blog on ISO 27001 & ISO 22301. Big bertha says: default passwords.

Need a checklist? - Ask Jeeves. We just recently did a Data center move and consolidation.

need a checklist? - Ask Jeeves

Some bullet points. - Get all your staff into a room and do a walk through of the move. This will take anywhere from 5-15 hours to provide a time-line of all activities during the process. This goes from the initial offline backups to the turning off of scripts and automated process, moving DNS, powering off enterprise servers (z/OS, AS/400, P-Series can take 2-6 hours) plugging in systems, the whole gambit it takes a lot of planning even for 10 servers let alone 250+. - have all your cabling done and the end point and labeled and tested for specific connections, firewall rules and applications connectivity several weeks prior to the move. . - have spares of everything, a few extra servers and a few extra hard drives. - we moved around 150 servers and an AS/400 and it took us about 11 hours.

Why cmdb's Fail - Navvia. Why do CMDB Initiatives Fail?

Why cmdb's Fail - Navvia

We keep hearing IT organizations say “we need a CMDB”. They want this in order to manage the risks associated with their changes and/or to understand the assets they have. This usually includes a focus on the less-tangible elements (including applications and databases) and how they are related to services. Over the past few years, I have seen many CMDB initiatives, covering both first-time efforts and attempts to resurrect initiatives that had faltered. From my experience, the following 3 factors were the leading causes of failure. Let the discovery tool do it for me The first instinct with discovery tools is often “let’s plug it in and capture everything out there”.

The Small Business Guide to Google Analytics – Simply Business. 13 Sites to Download Free eBooks. eBooks have become very popular with devices such as the Kindle and the new iPad.

13 Sites to Download Free eBooks

You can get applications for your smart phone to read PDF files and eBooks from most popular book sites. There ia a large choice of eBooks and many are free. Amazon has a collection of free eBooks for their Kindle reader so be sure and check their site. You don’t have to buy a Kindle to read them. They have applications you can download for your computer, iPhone and certain smart phones that are free.

Many eBooks are standard PDF files so all you need is a PDF reader on your computer or port them to your Kindle or iPad and many other devices. You can also check out a list of free eBook sites by visiting this XMarks link for free ebooks. Service Level Agreement Template (SLA) Welcome to the IT Services Catalog. Department of IT. Higher Education Service Catalogs. ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library V3.

ITIL Training. ITIL and Governance. ITIL tools. ITIL - Soporte al Servicio. The Castle. ITIL. Vendors. Big Data Tools. The Command Line Crash Course Controlling Your Computer From The Terminal. Contents Preface I wrote this book really quickly as a way to bootstrap students for my other books.

The Command Line Crash Course Controlling Your Computer From The Terminal

Many students don't know how to use the basics of the command line interface, and it was getting in the way of their learning. This book is designed to be something they can complete in about a day to a week and then get enough skill at the command line to graduate to other books. This book isn't a book about master wizardry system administration. Introduction: Shut Up And Shell This book is a crash course in using the command line to make your computer perform tasks.

The only piece of advice I am going to give you is this: Shut up and type all of this in. Sorry to be mean, but that's what you have to do. You are not going to destroy your computer. Why? How To Use This Book The best way to use this book is to do the following: Just keep going through this process of doing an exercise, writing down questions you have, then going back through and answering the questions you can.

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