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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)

SCSM – Raising priority, if an affected user is a VIP

Now, we will create a System Center Service Manager related Runbook to increase the priority if the affected user is a VIP. Our VIPs are all members of a special Active Directory Group.

A Runbook will monitor the creation or updating of an SCSM Incident, get the affected user, check if the user is a member of our Active Directory Group, and increase the priority by changing the impact and urgency related to our SCSM Priority Matrix.

Getting ready

This recipe will leverage System Center 2016 Service Manager to monitor your incidents.

To successfully finish this recipe, follow the recipes in Chapter 2, The Initial Configuration of SCO 2016, to register, deploy, and...