Approval Request

Updated: Approval Manager v0.8

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After I released the first public version of my Approval Manager, last week, I’ve got some nice comments on it. One of these comments was that it would be very handy to built-in some alerting. And that’s what I did in this updated version! Approval Manager This updated version gives the user the possibility to perform the following actions, without the need of access to and/ or a locally installed ConfigMgr console: Select a User from the specified Collection. Show only Approval Requests, for the selected User, that are Pending Approval. (NEW!) Show an alert when new Approval Requests, are Pending Approval, for the Users of the specified Collection. Approve, the selected, Approval Request. Deny, the selected, Approval Request. Close the form. Alerting As mentioned, …

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Managing Approval Requests in ConfigMgr 2012

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This week I want to devote a post to managing Approval Requests in ConfigMgr 2012. I’m not going to discuss whether the current model works, or not, I’m just going to say that in general it won’t work. The reason for that is simple, because it’s just one big list for everyone and every single Approval Request. To fill a small gap here, there is the Application Approval Workflow (solution accelerator), but for that also System Center 2012 – Service Manager and – Orchestrator are required. This just doesn’t fill the gap for everyone and/ or every company. So where does this leave us? Approval Manager Instead of complaining about all this, something that’s in a humans’ nature to do, we can also look at …

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