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Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2 Essentials

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Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2 Essentials

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)

The Best Practices Analyzer


Now, last but not least, (we've kept this one for the very end because it will make much more sense now) is how to make a good check on your Orchestrator environment and verify that it's compliant with Microsoft recommendations.

The Best Practices Analyzer does not come installed by default with Orchestrator, but it's very useful to have it installed, and we recommend you to do so as a sanity check for your Orchestrator environment.

  1. To start with, you'll need to download and install the Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer (MBCA) on the Orchestrator Management Server that you can find easily with a quick search on the Internet.

  2. Then, you'll have to download and install the Microsoft.SystemCenter2012.Orchestrator.BestPracticesAnalyzer.msi.

Once you have this installed and ready, you'll be able to do the following:

  • Scan Orchestrator deployment

  • Validate against Microsoft recommendations

  • Get an extraction of misconfigurations or missed best practices

Once you finish...