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Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition

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

Documenting Runbook designs

This recipe is a continuation of the first two recipes of this chapter. The Initial Steps to Consider before Creating a Runbook recipe discusses identifying the right candidates for automation. The Making Runbook scenarios automation ready recipe provides steps on taking the scenario and optimizing it for the automation with SCO. This recipe completes the loop with a discussion and example on documenting a real scenario.

Getting ready

You must plan to review and perform the steps in the Initial Steps to Consider before Creating a Runbook recipe and the Making Runbook scenarios automation ready recipe.

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