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Articles on IT operations, software packaging and the decisions behind OpsCloud365 and AppCloud365. Written by the people who work on them.

  1. Service Management

    From order to installation: AppCloud365 packages in the OpsCloud365 service catalogue

    Two products, separate data, one flow: how a software order in the self-service portal travels through approval and fulfilment group to a package from AppCloud365, and where the line between the two tools runs.

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  2. Software packaging

    Invent nothing: four rules AppCloud365 follows when it builds a package

    A package that fails silently in deployment costs more than one that is never built. Why we verify hashes, never guess commands, obtain tooling only from official sources and report exit codes unchanged.

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  3. IT Asset Management

    Entitlements versus consumption: licence compliance without a spreadsheet

    How many licences do we own, how many do we use, and how sure are we? How OpsCloud365 compares seats with installations and assignments and turns the result into a status per product.

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  4. Software packaging

    WinGet provides the installer, PSAppDeployToolkit the behaviour

    The WinGet catalogue knows more than 14,000 applications with installer, hash and silent switches. What it lacks for enterprise deployment, the PSAppDeployToolkit adds. Why AppCloud365 combines the two.

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  5. Service Management

    Priority is not an opinion: impact, urgency and the SLA clock

    Why we calculate the priority of an incident from a matrix instead of letting people argue about it, how SLA deadlines are derived within business hours, and when the clock is allowed to stop.

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  6. IT Asset Management

    One notebook, seven states: the asset lifecycle in OpsCloud365

    From purchase order to disposal: how we model the path a device takes through IT, why goods receipt is the most important click, and what an audit has to do with trust.

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