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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)

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Unpacking System Center 2016 Orchestrator, provides the steps required to install and configure SCO. This chapter contains recipes on the two installation scenario types for SCO; single-server and multi-server deployments. The objective is to provide the reader with the steps required for installation of SCO in either scenario.

Chapter 2, The Initial Configuration of SCO 2016, covers the initial configuration tasks an SCO administrator would need to perform after successfully installing the product. The chapter also delves into deploying and installing Integration Packs.

Chapter 3, Planning and Creating Runbooks, delves into the workflow's (Runbooks) planning and designing process for SCO. The planning and designing of Runbooks is a prerequisite for successful value add automation using SCO. This chapter also provides a brief primer to the SCO.

Chapter 4, Building Advanced Runbooks, focuses on how to take your SCO Runbooks to the next level. Build a looping Runbook or see how to implement error handling and enable advanced logging.

Chapter 5, Simple Runbooks for Your Daily Tasks, covers Runbooks you will need for your Daily Business. We are going step by step through each Runbook, so you will see how to build and understand how these Runbooks work.

Chapter 6, Advanced Runbooks for Your Daily Tasks, discusses building advanced Runbooks in your daily business. Each Runbook is an advanced solution and will provide you a rich featured Runbook solution.

Chapter 7, Doing More with Orchestrator, provides you a lot of information on how to trigger your SCO Runbooks. One of the best solutions will be in using SCOOSP, a self service portal to trigger your Runbooks.