Changing the default language of the SCSM 2012 Portal

As you might be aware of, the SCSM 2012 Self-Service Portal is multi-language capable. However, although you can add languages to the portal, I haven’t found any documented steps as to how to change the default language (which is always set to English).

This blog post will walk you through the necessary steps to change the default language of the SCSM 2012 Self-Service Portal.

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SCSM 2012 Upgrade: “[Group] is not a valid Active Directory group or user”

Today I encountered a problem when I tried to upgrade one of my customer’s SCSM 2010 SP1 environment to SCSM 2012 RTM. The setup was aborted with the error message “[Group] is not a valid Active Directory group or user”. It took me quite a while to find the root cause of this problem, so I thought I will share it for those of you who run into the same issue.

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