Both Microsoft and Google will terminate within summer/autumn 2022 the possibility of accessing POP and IMAP mailboxes using usernames and passwords! In the course of the year 2022 Microsoft and Google will terminate support for Basic Auth (the authentication with username and password) for some web services and pass to a more secure method, often…
Read MoreMore and more companies are adopting the now “quasi-standard” JIRA Software issue tracking and software project management tool, and the emerging ticketing tool JIRA Service Management. For most of them, when transitioning from their previous system, it is essential to preserve the recent ticket history and to migrate open bugs and issues to the new…
Read MoreWelcome to the latest version of our Service Management solution EriZone version 5.9. Product: EriZoneRelease Number: 5.9Release Date: January 7, 2021Release Type: MinorPrevious Release: 5.8 These release notes for EriZone 5.9 describe changes and improvements, and provide information on how to upgrade. Enhancements Upgrade of OTRS to 5.0.42 including security updates and improved translations. Postmaster filter AttachmentsToXField.pm:…
Read MoreMore and more enterprises rely on Microsoft Azure Active Directory as a company-wide identity provider for Office365, Teams, Sharepoint and other Microsoft and various non-Microsoft services. It provides Single Sign-On (SSO), so when opening any of these applications, if an authorization is needed, you will always be redirected to the same, trusted, company-wide login page….
Read MoreThis article will show you an EriZone innovation you can introduce into your process: a Transition Action for Activity Management. One of the main uses of this new feature is in the area of HR. There is no doubt that onboarding of a new employee in a company requires that multiple activities are fulfilled by…
Read MoreOTRS and EriZone are widely used as trouble ticketing systems. They have a rich set of standard common ticket actions used for ticket management. Some common actions are used for ticket classification – “Priority and Services”, “Additional ITSM Fields”, “Queue” – others for role assignment – “Owner”, “Customer” – still others for communication – “Note”,…
Read MoreEriZone is mainly used as an (IT) SM tool to manage incidents, service requests and changes, and to document the assignment and return of devices. However, a ticket system like EriZone can also support other processes – for example, those that need to provide structured documentation. In fact, many standards require reporting risks or other…
Read MoreEriZone 5.3 introduced new templates based on selected service and category. Those templates are used in the new Quick Ticket functionality, but can also be reused in all ticket creating masks. So once the service and category have been selected, the subject and/or the body can be pre-filled with the data of the template. In…
Read MoreOne of the key points in the EriZone configuration is the connection to the database that contains information on the users of the system. A database without information on users has a negative effect on the incident management process. Let’s imagine that you are a Service Desk operator who has to work on an urgent…
Read MoreWith this new EriZone functionality (which will be available in the next EriZone version 5.3) customers can open a ticket with only a few clicks. The new ticket creation process is based on intuitive images, which should lead the customer to finish the process in just a few steps.
Read MoreTo further deepen the topics that will be covered during the Open Source System Management Conference, Würth Phoenix organizes four different workshops. The workshops will be held on April 15 at the Würth Phoenix Training Center to address the highlights for the network traffic analysis with ntopng, the process management with OTRS, the Event Handler and Log Management…
Read MoreSometimes, especially for security reasons, it is important to know if the USB ports of a server have been used and what kind of operation has been carried out. Well, with the new version 1.7.0 of the Safed agent it is possible to monitor the USB ports for Windows Vista 2008 and later versions. Now…
Read MoreWithin organizations that implement ITIL processes and have a well-defined Service Desk, second and third level support, functional escalations are required when support of a higher-level specialist is requested. (Img 1)
Read MoreHave you ever used the emoticons to express your mood? Well, in many countries around the globe there is the opportunity to evaluate the various services offered by the public administration through the usage of the emoticons . A simple and quick procedure, which consists in giving a vote through three smiley faces: a smiling,…
Read MoreOTRS is a configuration management system (CSM), ITIL© v3 compliant that has its own CMDB in order to manage configuration Items (CI) involved in ITIL processes. It implements the Service Asset & Configuration Management process to ensure that the assets required to deliver services are properly controlled, and that reliable information about those assets is…
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