Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Casey McKinnon

Thomas Keane

Ashvinkumar J Sanghvi

Jens K Jacobsen

Kristoffer S Schultz

Vij Rajarajan

Vitaly Voloshin

Travis Austin Wright

Marisol Ontaneda

Shawn Bice

Baelson B Duque

Chandika Bhandari

The described unified service management system provides a unified console to perform functions of individual management specialists. A unified console facilitates an administrator to perform the complex tasks that were performed by the individual management specialists. The unified console provides a 'wizard' based approach to the administrator to design all aspects of the complex tasks including placement of components or computing devices, deciding on policies of the components or computing devices, deciding on health policies of components or computing devices, fixing data protection policies of components or computing devices, etc.

Unified service management

Processes and techniques for tailoring operations management in a system are described. The processes and techniques allow a user to customize operations management based on the user's function within a system and the particular tasks that the user wishes to accomplish. Simplified user interfaces can be created by scoping the interfaces based on user profiles, preferences and system components.

Tailored system management interface

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