March, 2012

The Microsoft Management Summit 2012 is only three weeks away!!  We can’t wait to see you all there. We will be running a series of focus groups at MMS to gather feedback from you on current and future versions of System Center. Participating in...

We worked with Kelverion to make sure that our System Center customers who have BMC products will be able to get BMC integration packs that work with System Center 2012- Orchestrator without cost. I’m happy to announce that the BMC IPs RTM are...

Starting a Runbook In Orchestrator a runbook is started by inserting a record in the jobs table in the database. The record contains at minimum the Runbook ID and any input parameters required by the runbook. Optionally, the record may indicate the Runbook...

Here is part 3 of Anil Erduran’s series on RunBooks in Orchestrator 2012. This part walks you through how to test, save and run your existing RunBooks: System Center Orchestrator 2012 – Test & Start RunBooks : http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive...

To enhance datacenter automation options, Orchestrator 2012 exposes a REST OData web service. The web service enables programmatic access to Orchestrator runtime resources like Runbooks, Jobs, and Events, and also enables a user to start Runbooks and...

I was browsing through all of the great new articles over on our TechNet Wiki and came across this one that I thought you might like. It’s written by Microsoft’s own Anil Erduran and it discusses the concept of RunBooks in Orchestrator 2012.  It...