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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)

Creating a child Runbook

Creating a child Runbook is one of the most essential tasks in SCO. Technically, there is no difference between normal Runbooks and a child Runbook.

A child Runbook is a Runbook with initialized data and often return data and is mostly used for tasks that are needed by multiple Runbooks.

For example, a Runbook, which is adding a user in the AD Group can be a child Runbook, as this task is often used by different Runbooks.

So, it makes sense to build one Runbook, such as a module PowerShell programming, with all the features you need, instead of building the task in each Runbook separately.

See this chart for a better understanding of how a child Runbooks works:

Getting ready

In our example, we will...