Learn System Center Orchestrator 2012 in 5 days – Day 1

Pete Zerger provides trough the blog page of http://www.systemcentercentral.com 5 day articles for learning System Center Orchestrator 2012. Click on the link and educate yourself.

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Automating Patching Hyper-V clusters with SCVMM, SCOM and WUInstall

To automate the patch process is one of the demands to achieve Private Cloud. Of course because of the many dependencies in the different environments that is not completely possible. But this automation can be started from the Hyper-V clusters. On the link below you will find script created by Jason T. Ruiz that automates the patching process using SCVMM, SCOM and WUInstall. Click on the link and patch.

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Update-Hyper-V-Hosts-via-71b86c1a

Automation in the Private Cloud with System Center Orchestrator (former Opalis)

One of the key features of the Private Cloud is the automation. The automation gives the opportunity to automate process like Incident Management and Request Management and to focus more on proactive actions than or reactive actions.Christopher Keyaert gives us a very useful session on “How to build you first runbook” with System Center Orchestrator 2012. The session is level 200 according to me but is more than enough to learn the basics of System Center Orchestrator. After you learn the basics you can grab the evolution version of that tool and start practicing to go deep in that technology and become an expert. Click on the link below and watch.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/Hh916316