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Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Beaumont, Samuel Erskine (EUR), Andreas Baumgarten, Seidl
Book Image

Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition

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

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)

Introduction

Moving from manual processes to automation leads to the following questions:

  • Is automation the root of all Information Technology (IT) evil?
  • Is the lack of automation the root of IT evil?

The answer to both the questions is "it depends". In most circumstances, we can say yes to either question. So "evil" may sound a little strong for technology; however, this is similar to the view of money. There is a definite fact that a lack of a well-defined and optimized process is the root of any automation evil. This chapter discusses steps we can take to ensure that the Runbooks (process workflows) we implement in System Center 2016 Orchestrator meet our needs as intended without the introduction of inefficient automation.