Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Marisol Ontaneda

Vitaly Voloshin

Thomas Keane

Travis Austin Wright

Ferit Findik

Shawn Bice

Anand Lakshminarayanan

Baelson B Duque

Nigel Graham Cain

Casey McKinnon

Abbot Moffat

Hakan Berk

Chandika Bhandari

Thomas N Martino

Anders Bertil Vinberg

Benjamin Salim Srour

Dustin Michael Ingalls

Steven Abrahams

Vitaly V Filimonov

Thomas F Theiner

Evgueni N Bykov

Andrew Timothy Hopper

Bradley Scott Jackson

Travis Dustin Sweat

A change management system may use a phased status indicator that may illustrate several phases of a change request and a current status for each phase of a change management lifecycle. Additionally, a group of change requests may be displayed in a linked manner showing various relationships between change requests. The status indicator and linked display may be used together or separately to illustrate the status of various change requests and within interactive displays of change request data.

Visualizers for change management system

Described are systems and methods for instrumenting configuration and system settings based on targeting configuration settings at dynamically populated groups, groups with varied membership, and objects defined in a class. The systems and methods provide for attributing a configuration setting or policy to one or more objects and then targeting the object at one or more scopes.

Instrumenting configuration and system settings

Various implementations are described herein for providing unified user experiences using data attributes and data models. By referencing structural information of data attributes included in data models, users are able to interact with and/or view related data stored in different databases. Contextual information for the different databases, data attributes, and data models provide a seamless unified user experience when running reports, scripts, web controls and so forth associated with the related data.

Unified user experience using contextual information, data attributes and data models

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

Described are systems and methods for instrumenting configuration and system settings based on targeting configuration settings at dynamically populated groups, groups with varied membership, and objects defined in a class. The systems and methods provide for attributing a configuration setting or policy to one or more objects and then targeting the object at one or more scope.

Systems management navigation and focus collection is described. In one implementation computing-based managed items which are part of a systems management environment are navigated to locate one or more computing-based managed items. In another implementation, the computing-based managed items are indexed, and then searched to locate one or more of the computing-based managed items from among the computing-based managed items which have been indexed. The searching can be based on one or more search requests. Each of the one or more computing-based managed items located by the navigating and/or the searching is identified by a respective unique identifier, and selected ones of the unique identifiers can be collected in a focus collection where they are at least temporarily maintained for a user.

Systems management navigation and focus collection

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