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SMLets Exchange Connector v5.0-Beta1

Summary
First beta release for v5.0 of the connector that introduces support for multiple keywords.

New Features
The Management Pack (5.0.0.2) introduces support for entering one or many comma separated keywords per keyword configuration. For example, the [approved] keyword could now be set to "yes,affirmative,approved,approve,expedite". The [reactivate] keyword could now be set to "reactivate,reopen", etc. In doing so:

  • Enables multiple languages per keyword
  • Gives rise to keywords only known to select individuals or made available on Notification Templates. Thus introducing new automation opportunities based on specific uses of the keyword. For example, [approved] may complete a Review Activity but using Custom Events and Invoke-AfterApproved. If the keyword used was [expedite], the Review Activity would be completed and the Priority of a subsequent Activity would be raised to Immediate.

Bugs

  • When updating a Work Item, individual attachments from an email are not added but the email that contains all of the attachments is added
  • When an email address contains a PowerShell comparison operation such as -Le, -Ge, -And, etc. Then the Get-SCSMUserByEmailAddress function fails to correctly identify the user

Miscellaneous
Several functions have been renamed to use singular nouns instead of plural to follow PowerShell best practices. As such, if you are using any of these in your own Custom Events they will need to be updated.

Old Name Updated Name
Get-TierMembers Get-TierMember
Get-CiresonPortalAnnouncements Get-CiresonPortalAnnouncement
Search-AvailableCiresonPortalOfferings Search-AvailableCiresonPortalOffering
Get-AzureEmailKeywords Get-AzureEmailKeyword
Get-SCSMWorkItemSettings Get-SCSMWorkItemSetting

CHANGES FROM ALPHA1 & ALPHA2

  • Two unused variables have been commented out. They are:
    • #$userClass = get-scsmclass -name "System.User$"
      #$sysUserHasPrefRelClass = Get-SCSMRelationshipClass -name "System.UserHasPreference$"
  • Several functions have been refactored for performance and improve how they pass parameters between themselves
    • Get-TierMembership (used when verifying who is allowed to use [take])
    • Set-SCSMTemplate and Update-SCSMPropertyCollection (used when setting a Template on a New Work Item)
    • Get-SCOMDistributedAppHealth (used when retrieving a SCOM Distributed Application's health)
  • The selected AD Group to retrieve SCOM Distributed Application Health and/or an AD Group to make SCSM Announcements no longer uses a Label to show its Display Name
  • Iconography has been updated for the Templates and Logging configuration panes in the management pack
  • In some environments SMLets isn't imported correctly when the PowerShell starts so that section has been moved further up in the connector's execution.
  • Logging is more representative of start, process, and finish stages of the connector
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