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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)

Using SCOOSP to provide self service with SCO

SCOOSP is the leading self service Portal for Automation in Microsoft Environment, where you can provide forms that will trigger a SCO Runbook, SMA Runbook, or Azure Automation Runbook.

This form can be used to provide self service for your IT staff and to your end users.

As we are writing a System Center Orchestrator Book, we will focus on SCO Runbooks to provide a self service form with SCOOSP.

In the end it doesn't matter, if you are using SCO, SMA, or Azure Automation.

SCOOSP is a third-party software, but free to try, feel free to download it from here: http://bit.ly/SCOOSP_Cookbook.

Getting ready

To use SCOOSP, you need to download the trial version, see the See also...