Microsoft’s Strategy for Service Management

Microsoft utilizes a multi-faceted approach to IT service management. This strategy includes advancements in the following areas:

• Adoption of a model-based management strategy (a component of the Dynamic Systems Initiative, discussed in the next section, “Microsoft’s Dynamic Systems Initiative”) to implement synthetic transaction technology. ConfigMgr delivers Service Modeling Language (SML)-based models in its compliance settings feature (previously known as desired configuration management or DCM), allowing administrators to define intended configurations.

• Using an Infrastructure Optimization Model as a framework for aligning IT with business needs and as a standard for expressing an organization’s ...

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