Balancing server patching with maintaining the availability of the services that run on these servers can be a difficult task for an IT Pro, with lots of repetitive, time-consuming, and error-prone steps. Luckily, Orchestrator has emerged as an effective...

Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available and includes the following updates for Orchestrator: Issue 1: The Monitor SNMP Trap activity publishes incorrect values for strings when a Microsoft SNMP Trap Service...

We just published a new KB article that explains an issue where in Orchestrator 2012, the Monitor Event Log fires every time there is any new event on the specified computer regardless of filters, or if the event does not match the filters, the published...

A new capability in System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator allows an activity developer to define "cascading dependencies" between input parameters.  For example if the user chooses a state like 'California' in the State input parameter...

We just published a new KB article that talks about an issue where the System Center 2012 Orchestrator Send SNMP Trap activity always sets the Generic Identifier value as coldStart(0) regardless of the value selected. The work around is pretty straight...

Hi Everybody, This has been covered in the blogosphere pretty heavily now, but maybe a little bit more will help prevent the next accidental "discovery" of the issue. The following was sent to me from Paul Chen, and he asked me to post it for him...

So John Messec and I were delivering our session at Tech Ready 16 yesterday (SCIM351 - Enabling Hosted IaaS Clouds for Service Providers, big shout out and my thanks to all who attended) and I was asked to put out a quick blog post showing the URLs that...

We just published a KB article about an issue where new Orchestrator Runbooks and/or folders that have been created using the Runbook Designer are not displayed even though the user has the appropriate permissions to see them. You may also notice that...

We just published a new KB article that explains an issue where the NetCool/Omnibus integration pack for System Center 2012 Orchestrator returns an "Invalid ObjectServer data type" error. This is fixed in SP1 but there’s an alternate workaround...

We just published a new KB article for System Center 2012 Orchestrator describing an issue where a triggered Runbook never finishes and the policy module log shows the process as terminated. This can occur if disallow results from triggers is enabled...

We just published a new KB article about an issue where under certain circumstances, users accounts may be able to see content that they should not have access to based on permissions defined within the Runbook Designer when that content is provided via...

We just published a new KB article about an issue where attempting to deploy the Integration Pack for .NET that comes with the Orchestrator Integration Toolkit to a Runbook Server that is remote from the Management Server fails and logs an Event ID: 10005...

This morning we announced the availability of System Center 2012 SP1.   You can read more about the release on the System Center blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2013/01/15/system-center-2012-sp1-is-generally-available.aspx...

I’ve seen this situation twice now in the last week so it’s probably worth a blog post on it.  Here’s the situation.  You are logged into the System Center - Service Manager (SCSM) console and you can see a bunch of objects like for example...

Integration Guide for Orchestrator is now available at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13185.system-center-2012-integration-guide-orchestrator.aspx

Jonathan Ponton has written up an excellent, detailed, step-by-step description of how to use Service Manager and Orchestrator together to automate the process of creating a new user in Office 365. Read on! http://seethruthecloud.com/using-system-center...

A new scenario based TechNet wiki article written by our documentation team describes how to use Service Provider Foundation to programmatically integrate cloud resources that Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) manages into existing management portals and...

If you liked the original System Center Blogs app that was published last year for Windows Phone and Android , you’ll be happy to know that both apps have now been updated, plus there is a new version now available for iOS . The updates include bug fixes...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue with System Center 2012 Orchestrator that happens when the SQL Server instance it’s using is restarted. ===== Symptoms Runbooks stop executing and the Orchestrator Runbook...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where you get an "Access Denied" in Runbook Designer when connecting to the Orchestrator Management Server. ===== Symptoms When attempting to connect to your System...

Register here http://www.eventbrite.com/org/2765564380?s=10428094 and recorded sessions are posted at www.youtube.com/acceleres .

The IP can be downloaded from download center IP user guide is located on Technet The Integration Pack includes the following activities: Azure Certificates - the Azure Certificates activity is used in a runbook to add, delete, and list management and...

Following the recent Beta release of the Service Management Portal and API for Windows Server , a couple of our hosting solutions field guys in Europe reported issues getting the portal to successfully register SPF as the System Center provider for IaaS...

System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Beta - Installable Bits (if you want to do that instead of VMs) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34607 App Controller – Service Pack 1 Beta http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download...

The Solution Accelerators team has started two new beta programs focused on tools, automation, and knowledge for System Center products. One program will provide Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) service templates and a SCVMM add-in to help you discover...