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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)

Starting an SCO Runbook using PowerShell

Now we have built a lot of Runbooks, and hopefully brought up some fresh ideas of Runbooks that you would like to build, we are now at the point where we will learn how to trigger an SCO Runbook from outside and on how to get even more out of your Runbooks.

This recipe will show you how to use PowerShell to trigger a Runbook.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you need to build the Runbooks described in Chapter 4, Building Advanced Runbooks.

To test our PowerShell script, make sure you have PowerShell ISE installed on your server.

How to do it…

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