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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.

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Table of Contents (8 chapters)
Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Free Chapter
1
Unpacking System Center 2016 Orchestrator
Unpacking System Center 2016 Orchestrator
Introduction
Understanding the Orchestrator architecture
Planning the Orchestrator deployment
Installing a single server deployment
Making the Orchestrator environment highly available
Deploying an additional Runbook Server
2
The Initial Configuration of SCO 2016
The Initial Configuration of SCO 2016
Introduction
Deploying an additional Runbook Designer
Registering an SCO Integration Pack
Deploying the IP to Designers and Runbook Servers
The initial Integration Pack configuration
Creating and maintaining a security model for Orchestrator
3
Planning and Creating Runbooks
Planning and Creating Runbooks
Introduction
Initial steps to consider before creating a Runbook
Making Runbook scenarios automation ready
Documenting Runbook designs
Understanding the Orchestrator scenario building blocks
Runbook Designer standards and primer
Creating a Runbook
4
Building Advanced Runbooks
Building Advanced Runbooks
Introduction
Creating a child Runbook
Building a looping Runbook
Implementing logging in your Runbook
Implementing error handling in your Runbooks
Making your Runbooks highly available
5
Simple Runbooks for Your Daily Tasks
Simple Runbooks for Your Daily Tasks
Introduction
Active Directory – Deleting inactive computer accounts
SCOM – Activating maintenance mode for a server
SCVMM – Removing an attached ISO from a VM
ConfigMgr – Automating the update Installation process
SCSM – Raising priority, if an affected user is a VIP
6
Advanced Runbooks for Your Daily Tasks
Advanced Runbooks for Your Daily Tasks
Introduction
Active Directory – Sending an email to users if their password will expire soon
SCOM – Advanced alerting with SCO
7
Doing More with Orchestrator
Doing More with Orchestrator
Introduction
Starting an SCO Runbook using PowerShell
Starting an SCO Runbook with the Orchestration Console
Using SCOOSP to provide self service with SCO
Maintaining and health checking SCO

Implementing error handling in your Runbooks

Always think about all the possible errors or problems, which can occur in your Runbooks, and try to build your Runbooks without a dead end.

There is nothing more annoying than a Runbook that seems to finish without any problem but is not doing what you are expecting because you have missed some possible ways, the Runbook can follow.

Getting ready

In our recipe, we will take care of our 1.2.2-Reboot a Server runbook and add some error handling. In case a server will stuck on the reboot process, our Runbook would wait endless time for the server to come back, so this is definitely not what we want; let's do this better in this recipe.

Navigate to your Runbook with the name 1...

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