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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)

Active Directory – Deleting inactive computer accounts

You can schedule a Runbook in System Center 2016 Orchestrator to automatically remove disabled and obsolete computer accounts from Active Directory.

The business process of this workflow is defined in the following diagram:

Getting ready

To get ready for our first Runbook., we need to create a new folder and a new Runbook in the Runbook Designer:

  1. In the Runbook Designer, expand the connection to the SCO 2016 server.
  2. Navigate to Root\0.1-Cookbook, and create a new folder called 1.3-Chapter 5.
  3. Create a subfolder called 1.3.1-Delete inactive Computer Accounts.
  4. Right-click on the new folder. and then click on New and select Runbook.
  5. Right-click on the newly created...