The long waited Service Pack 1 of System Center 2012 has reached RTM and it is now available for download on MSDN. It seems the rumors were true. This is a Christmas gift from Microsoft 
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Tag: SCOrch
Creating SCOM Monitoring Rules from Self-Service Portal with Orchestrator
Anders Bengtsson shows how a complex task of creating a new monitor in SCOM can be automated with Self-Service Portal and Orchestrator. Read all about this here.
Orchestrator and Service Provider Foundation
If you want to know about the new feature in System Center 2012 SP1 named Service Provider Foundation there is a great article on Technet Wiki. The title of the article is Cloud Resource Management with System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) – Orchestrator and Service Provider Foundation.
System Center 2012 Integration Guides
With System Center 2012 the different products of the family became components. This was not just changing of words. This change has the goal to tip that all components come in one license and that their integration is way better compared to the previous versions. To help us leverage that integration community project created Integration guides for System Center 2012 components:
The purpose of the Integration Guide is to provide an overview of each System Center component in its role as a programmable platform to be leveraged for the Microsoft Private Cloud. It is intended to provide an abstraction layer that guides partners and customers on their decision process for methods to build automated solutions across System Center components and between System Center and other systems.
FREE Kelverion Webinar – Best Practices for persisting Runbook Data in Orchestrator
Posted by Greg Charman on http://www.systemcentercentral.com forum:
Learn the best practices for persisting Runbook Data in Orchestrator
Are you beginning your journey with System Center 2012 Orchestrator? Have you built your first Runbooks and struggling to store data and recover it easily Do you wish you knew…
• What pitfalls to avoid when trying to store data gather in an Orchestrator Runbook?
• How best to store data in your Runbook Solution?
• How to optimise the performance of Orchestrator?
Kelverion System Center 2012 Orchestrator experts. We have more more than 5 years’ experience in building large, complex automation solutions using Orchestrator and Opalis and over the years have faced virtually every challenge thrown up when implementing Orchestrator. When we build an Orchestrator Solution we also implement it with a Runtime database also side to persist Runbook data.
Attend this valuable webcast Best Practices for persisting Runbook Data in Orchestrator, Thursday, November 29th at 10:00 am GMT.
Learn …
1. What pitfalls to avoid when trying to store data gather in an Orchestrator Runbook?
2. Why to leverage a database alongside Orchestrator for data persistency
3. How to leverage the database to optimise the performance of your Orchestrator Solution
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