Microsoft System Center: Designing Orchestrator Runbooks

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft MVP with expertise in Windows administration, deployment, and virtualization. He has published hundreds of articles on a wide variety of technology sites and has written more than 30 books.

Chapter 1 Introducing System Center 2012
System Center Virtual Machine Manager
System Center Operations Manager
System Center Service Manager
System Center Data Protection Manager
System Center Configuration Manager
System Center Orchestrator
Chapter 2 System Center Orchestrator
Runbook Designer
Integration packs
Runbook Tester
Orchestration console
Orchestrator Integration Toolkit
Chapter 3 Orchestrator architecture and deployment
Architecture
High availability considerations
Orchestrator 2012 architecture patterns
Chapter 4 Modular runbook design and development
What is a runbook?
Creating runbooks
Modular runbook design
Developing a systematic approach to IT process automation
Chapter 5 Orchestrator runbook best practices and patterns
Runbook design best practices
Using Windows PowerShell in Orchestrator
Runbook patterns
Chapter 6 Modular runbook example
Requirements
VM provisioning input XML file
Component runbooks
Control runbooks
Initiation runbook
Chapter 7 Calling and executing Orchestrator runbooks
Orchestration console
Orchestrator REST API
System Center Service Manager service catalog

Appendix Windows PowerShell source code for core component runbooks
Get Runbook Path
Get Relative Folder
Appendix Steps to set up VMM to SM integration
Management packs
Create an Operations Manager CI Connector
Appendix About the authors