Are you very familiar with ITIL concepts and wonder why implement MOF? A new white paper on MOF: An Actionable and Prescriptive Approach to ITIL has been published to the Microsoft Download Center. This white paper explains how MOF builds on and extends (or adopts and adapts if you like those words better) ITIL, to provide improved and actionable guidance for IT operations.
The paper goes into the contrast of ITIL being more descriptive and MOF being more prescriptive with process driven tools and best practices. A great comparison table shows specific topics, how ITIL defines them, and how MOF expands on what ITIL covers. For example:
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There is a valuable section that highlights the solution accelerators which help automate key service management scenarios. Solutions like:
This is a quick and easy to read document. If you require further reading, links to additional detail are provided within it.