All Posts:

• Install All System Center 2012 R2 Preview Components and Windows Azure Pack Preview (Part 1 Operations Manager)
• Install All System Center 2012 R2 Preview Components and Windows Azure Pack Preview (Part 2 Service Manager)
• Install All System Center 2012 R2 Preview Components and Windows Azure Pack Preview (Part 3 Virtual Machine Manager)
• Install All System Center 2012 R2 Preview Components and Windows Azure Pack Preview (Part 4 Orchestrator and Service Management Automation)
• Install All System Center 2012 R2 Preview Components and Windows Azure Pack Preview (Part 5 Service Provider Foundation and Service Reporting)
• Install All System Center 2012 R2 Preview Components and Windows Azure Pack Preview (Part 6 App Controller)
• Install All System Center 2012 R2 Preview Components and Windows Azure Pack Preview (Part 7 Data Protection Manager)
• Install All System Center 2012 R2 Preview Components and Windows Azure Pack Preview (Part 8 Configuration Manager)
• Install All System Center 2012 R2 Preview Components and Windows Azure Pack Preview (Part 9 Windows Azure Pack)

 

In Part 4 we will cover the installation experience of Orchestrator and Service Management Automation. SMA is a new role in Orchestrator that allows you to execute PowerShell workflows of all PowerShell modules. Certainly a role that we have to discover more.

Orchestrator:

Runbook Designer I’ve already installed so that is why I cannot check it.

Orchestrator will enable IIS role during the installation:

I think that option with remote access was not present before but I might be wrong.

Runbook Designer can be opened without issues:

When I’ve opened the web console I’ve got an error:

It seems the installed does not install ASP.NET 4.5 and you have to install it manually. After that the web console will be working:

Let’s continue with Service Management Automation role which has three components. I will install them on the SCO01:

Web Service:

We have to install some prerequisites:

The installation experience looks like the one for Service Provider Foundation as both are web services:

You can generate self-signed certificate without going to IIS console:

Runbook Worker:

These new roles in Orchestrator component all require Windows Server 2012 R2

It seems additional configuration is needed after installation:

PowerShell Module

The installation of these modules goes very fast so I couldn’t capture it.

More exploration on Service Management Automation Role is needed in order to understand the architecture and the full capabilities.