Continuing on with the automated SQL Cluster patching process, let’s examine some creative ways in which we can provide real time and summary feedback. At a high level we will see how to write data from the orchestrated process into an external database, and then use this data for reporting purposes...

I have updated this series of Runbooks to support System Center 2012. A downloadable copy of the exported Runbooks and a blog posting detailing the changes can be found and these links. Blog - http://blogs.technet.com/b/neilp/archive/2012/07/04/updating-a-sql-cluster-using-system-center-2012-configuration...