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Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Michael Seidl, Steve Beaumont, Samuel Erskine (EUR), Andreas Baumgarten
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Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Michael Seidl, Steve Beaumont, Samuel Erskine (EUR), Andreas Baumgarten

Overview of this book

With Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook, you will start by learning how to efficiently install and secure System Center Orchestrator. You will then learn how you can create configuration files for SCO 2016. After initial installation and configuration, you will soon be planning and creating functional and fault-tolerant System Center runbooks to automate daily tasks and routine operations. Next you will delve into runbooks; you will learn how to create powerful and advanced runbooks such as Building your Runbook without a Dead End. You will also learn to create simple and advanced runbooks for your daily tasks. Towards the end of the book, you will learn to use SCO for other interesting tasks and also learn to maintain and perform SCO health checks. By the end of the book, you will be able to automate your administrative tasks successfully with SCO.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

The initial Integration Pack configuration

This recipe provides the steps required to configure an Integration Pack for use once it has been successfully deployed to a Runbook Designer.

Getting ready

You must deploy an Orchestrator environment and also deploy the IP you plan to configure to a Runbook Designer before following the steps in this recipe.

The authors assume that the user account performing the installation has administrative privileges on the server nominated for the SCO Runbook Designer.

How to do it...

Each Integration Pack serves as an interface to the...