Microsoft system center 2016 orchestrator cookbook : simplify the automation of your administrative tasks / Michael Seidl [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seidl, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft System center.

Computer networks--Management.

Computer networks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, [England] ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt, 2017.

Biography/History:

Beaumont Steve: Steve Beaumont has worked for more years than he cares to admit within IT, starting with desktop support. He is now the Product Development Director of PowerONPlatforms and a Microsoft MVP within the Cloud and Datacenter Management area, where he helps organizations realize the benefits of the hybrid cloud. He is also a co-author of the Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager, Orchestrator and Operations Manager cookbooks. His passion for everything about System Center, Azure and IT systems management reflects through all areas of his work, presentation and day-to-day life in the form of new and innovative solutions brought to market by PowerONPlatforms. Erskine (EUR) Samuel: Samuel Erskine is a Systems Management Sr Technical Specialist, Trainer and Author, focused on System Center and MS Cloud technologies. Sam is the content designer and lead author of three Microsoft System Center Cookbooks and co-author of two System Center Unleashed books. He's also a Microsoft MCT, MVP and a regular speaker at community user groups and conferences worldwide. Baumgarten Andreas: Andreas Baumgarten is a Microsoft MVP and works as an IT Architect with the German IT service provider H&D International Group. He has been working as an IT professional for more than 20 years. Microsoft technologies have always accompanied him, and he can also look back on more than 14 years' experience as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Since 2008, he has been responsible for the field of Microsoft System Center technology consulting and ever since has taken part in Microsoft System Center Service Manager (2010, 2012, 2012 R2 and 2016); additionally, he has participated in the Microsoft System Center Technology Adoption Program with H&D since many years. With his deep inside-technology know-how and his broad experience across the Microsoft System Center product family and IT management, he now designs and develops private and hybrid cloud solutions for customers all over Germany and Europe. In July 2017, he was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) title for System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management for the sixth year in a row. Seidl Michael: Michael Seidl is a senior consultant and team leader in service management and automation, working for Base-IT, a Gold Partner in Systems Management, located in Austria. He is a two-time System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP and a well-certified Microsoft Engineer with MCSA and MCSE. His experience as an IT consultant has been growing since 2001 and is mainly focused on SCDPM, SCO, SCSM, and PowerShell. Working with some of the biggest companies in Austria gives him the opportunity to work on great projects with complex requirements. Michael is focused on transforming IT departments through service management, systems management, cloud technologies, and automation. Michael regularly shares his experience on the TechNet Forum. You can follow him on Twitter at @TechguyAt. His Facebook page is TechguyAT.

Summary:

Over 30 recipes to automate your mission-critical tasks using the new and powerful Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Key Features Create powerful runbooks for the entire System Center 2016 product line Explore System Center 2016 Orchestrator to manage and automate your datacenter A recipe-based guide to using SCO efficiently Book Description 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. What you will learn Create runbooks for IT Service Management processes Design and create Runbooks for System Center Confguration Manager and Virtual Machine Manager Set up System Center Orchestrator, making it highly available Create branching, looping, and child runbooks to completely master System Center 2016 Orchestrator Implement a security model for your System Center Orchestrator deployment and to execute Runbooks Manage and automate your datacenter with powerful runbooks Automate your System Center environment

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Unpacking System Center 2016 Orchestrator

Introduction

Understanding the Orchestrator architecture

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works...

Planning the Orchestrator deployment

How to do it...

There's more...

Installing a single server deployment

See also

Making the Orchestrator environment highly available

Deploying an additional Runbook Server

Chapter 2: The Initial Configuration of SCO 2016

Deploying an additional Runbook Designer

Registering an SCO Integration Pack

Deploying the IP to Designers and Runbook Servers

How it works…

There's more…

The initial Integration Pack configuration

Creating and maintaining a security model for Orchestrator

Security model scenario

Preparing and organizing the environment

Configuring DCOM permissions

Designer and console delegation

Configuring AD IP Runbook permissions

Restricting options by Runbook Designer Integration Pack deployment

Chapter 3: Planning and Creating Runbooks

Initial steps to consider before creating a Runbook

Getting ready.

How to do it...

Identifying scenarios

Validating and agreeing

Optimizing and documenting

Making Runbook scenarios automation ready

Documenting Runbook designs

Scenario

Understanding the Orchestrator scenario building blocks

A tour of the Runbook Designer

A tour of Runbook Tester

The Orchestration web console

Runbook Designer standards and primer

How to standardize your activity configuration

Check in and check out

Working with custom and databus parameters

Expanding parameter fields

Creating a Runbook

Building an Ad-Hoc Runbook

Building a monitoring Runbook

Chapter 4: Building Advanced Runbooks

Creating a child Runbook

Using variables in different Runbook activities

Building a looping Runbook

Implementing logging in your Runbook

Simple logging

Enhanced logging

There is more…

Implementing error handling in your Runbooks

Making your Runbooks highly available

High priority Runbook available on all Runbook Servers

Low priority Runbook is available on one Runbook Server

Promoting and demoting primary Runbook Servers

Chapter 5: Simple Runbooks for Your Daily Tasks

Introduction.

Active Directory - Deleting inactive computer accounts

Deleting obsolete user accounts in Active Directory

SCOM - Activating maintenance mode for a server

SCVMM - Removing an attached ISO from a VM

Logging events to Orchestrator

System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager Integration Pack

ConfigMgr - Automating the update Installation process

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

Chapter 6: Advanced Runbooks for Your Daily Tasks

Active Directory - Sending an email to users if their password will expire soon

SCOM - Advanced alerting with SCO

Update DA Alerts Runbook

Send mail Runbook

Notify external helpline Runbook

Notify Helpdesk Runbook

Notify Business Owner Runbook

Notify SCOM-Alert

DA-Alert Runbook

Monitoring Alerts Runbook

Chapter 7: Doing More with Orchestrator

Starting an SCO Runbook using PowerShell

Starting an SCO Runbook with the Orchestration Console

Using SCOOSP to provide self service with SCO

Start a service

Manage you and your team

Dynamic questions

SCOOSP licensing

See also.

Maintaining and health checking SCO

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 21, 2017).

OCLC:

1001253454