Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook
Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook

Author: Michael Seidl

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2017-07-26

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1786466007

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Over 30 recipes to automate your mission-critical tasks using the new and powerful Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator About This Book Create powerful runbooks for the entire System Center 2016 product line Explore System Center 2016 Orchestrator to manage and automate your datacenter A recipe-based guide to using SCO efficiently Who This Book Is For If you are a system administrator and want to simplify the process of automating system administration tasks using System Center Orchestrator 2016 then this book is for you. A basic knowledge of SCO is expected What You Will Learn Create Runbooks for IT Service Management processes Design and create Runbooks for System Center Confguration Manager and Virtual Machine Manager Set up System Center Orchestrator, making it highly available Create branching, looping, and child Runbooks to completely master System Center 2016 Orchestrator Implement a security model for your System Center Orchestrator deployment and to execute Runbooks Manage and automate your Datacenter with powerful Runbooks Automate your System Center environment In Detail With Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook, you will start by learning how to efficiently install and secure System Center Orchestrator. You will then learn how you can create configuration files for SCO 2016. After initial installation and configuration, you will soon be planning and creating functional and fault-tolerant System Center runbooks to automate daily tasks and routine operations. Next you will delve into runbooks; you will learn how to create powerful and advanced runbooks such as Building your Runbook without a Dead End. You will also learn to create simple and advanced runbooks for your daily tasks. Towards the end of the book, you will learn to use SCO for other interesting tasks and also learn to maintain and perform SCO health checks. By the end of the book, you will be able to automate your administrative tasks successfully with SCO. Style and approach This book is written in a practical, cookbook style with numerous chapters and recipes focusing on creating runbooks to automate mission-critical and everyday administration tasks.

Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition
Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition

Author: Michael Seidl

Publisher:

Published: 2017-07-25

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9781786460462

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Over 30 recipes to automate your mission-critical tasks using the new and powerful Microsoft System Center 2016 OrchestratorAbout This Book* Create powerful runbooks for the entire System Center 2016 product line* Explore System Center 2016 Orchestrator to manage and automate your datacenter* A recipe-based guide to using SCO efficientlyWho This Book Is ForIf you are a system administrator and want to simplify the process of automating system administration tasks using System Center Orchestrator 2016 then this book is for you. A basic knowledge of SCO is expectedWhat You Will Learn* Create Runbooks for IT Service Management processes* Design and create Runbooks for System Center Confguration Manager and Virtual Machine Manager* Set up System Center Orchestrator, making it highly available* Create branching, looping, and child Runbooks to completely master System Center 2016 Orchestrator* Implement a security model for your System Center Orchestrator deployment and to execute Runbooks* Manage and automate your Datacenter with powerful Runbooks* Automate your System Center environmentIn DetailWith Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook, you will start by learning how to efficiently install and secure System Center Orchestrator. You will then learn how you can create configuration files for SCO 2016. After initial installation and configuration, you will soon be planning and creating functional and fault-tolerant System Center runbooks to automate daily tasks and routine operations. Next you will delve into runbooks; you will learn how to create powerful and advanced runbooks such as Building your Runbook without a Dead End. You will also learn to create simple and advanced runbooks for your daily tasks. Towards the end of the book, you will learn to use SCO for other interesting tasks and also learn to maintain and perform SCO health checks.By the end of the book, you will be able to automate your administrative tasks successfully with SCO.Style and approachThis book is written in a practical, cookbook style with numerous chapters and recipes focusing on creating runbooks to automate mission-critical and everyday administration tasks.

Microsoft System Center 2016 Service Manager Cookbook
Microsoft System Center 2016 Service Manager Cookbook

Author: Anders Asp (MVP)

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2017-02-27

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 1786467194

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Discover over 100 practical recipes to help you master the art of IT service management for your organization About This Book Unleash the capabilities of Microsoft System Center 2016 Service Manager Master the skills of configuring, deploying, managing, and troubleshooting your Service Manager 2016 This book contains practical recipes that leverage the key and newly added features and functionalities of Microsoft System Center 2016 Service Manager Who This Book Is For This book will be useful to IT professionals including SCSM administrators who want to configure and administer System Center Service Manager 2016 and understand how to solve specific problems and scenarios that arise. It will also be useful to users of Service Manager 2012 who want to learn about the new features and capabilities of the Service Manager 2016 release. It will be ideal if you have Service Manager experience as well as experience with other System Center products. What You Will Learn See a practical implementation of the ITSM framework and processes based on ITIL Deploy and configure the new Service Manager HTML5 Self-Service Portal along with Service Catalog design and configuration Get to know about Incident, Problem, and Change Management processes and configuration Get to grips with performing advanced personalization in Service Manager Discover how to set up and use automation with and within Service Manager 2016 Work with Service Manager Data Warehouse Find out what Security Roles are and how to implement them Learn how to upgrade from SCSM 2012 R2 to SCSM 2016 In Detail System Center Service Manager (SCSM) is an integrated platform that offers a simplified data center management experience by implementing best practices such as Incident Management, Service Request, and Change Control to achieve efficient service delivery across your organization. This book provides you with real-world recipes that can be used immediately and will show you how to configure and administer SCSM 2016. You'll also find out how to solve particular problems and scenarios to take this tool further. You'll start with recipes on implementing ITSM frameworks and processes and configuring Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Then, you'll work through deploying and configuring the HTML5 Self-Service Portal, configuring Incident and Problem Management, and designing and configuring Change and Release Management. You'll also learn about security roles and overall Microsoft SCSM 2016 administration. Toward the end of the book, we'll look at advanced topics, such as presenting the wealth of information stored within the Service Manager Data Warehouse, standardizing SCSM deployments, and implementing automation. Style and approach This book will enlighten you on Microsoft System Center 2016 Service Manager through recipes that can be implemented directly in any enterprise. You can read the book from start to end if you're a beginner, or just open up any chapter and start following the recipes as a reference for advanced users. This book consists of a pool of step-by-step recipes on how to perform activities in Service Manager.

Microsoft System Center 2016 Service Manager Cookbook - Second Edition
Microsoft System Center 2016 Service Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

Author: Steve Buchanan

Publisher:

Published: 2017-03-31

Total Pages: 672

ISBN-13: 9781786464897

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Over 90 practical recipes to help you master the art of IT Services Management for your organizationAbout This Book* Unleash the capabilities of Microsoft System Center 2016 Service Manager* Master the skills of configuring, deploying, managing operations guide and troubleshooting your Service Manager 2016* Contains practical recipes that leverage the key and newly added features and functionalities of Microsoft System Center 2016 Service ManagerWho This Book Is ForThis book will be useful to IT professionals including SCSM administrators who want to configure and administer System Center Service Manager 2016 and understand how to solve specific problems and scenarios that arise. It will also be useful to users of Service Manager 2012 who want to learn about the new features and capabilities of the Service Manager 2016 release.What you will learn* See a practical implementation of the ITSM framework and processes based on ITIL* Know how to personalize Service Manager 2016 administration* Configure Service Level Agreements* Deploy and configure the new Service Manager HTML 5 Self-Service Portal* See how to build the Configuration Management Database* Make Incident, Problem, and Change Management Design* Build Service Catalog design and configuration* Get to know Advanced Personalization of Service Manager* Automate Service Manager 2016* Know how to work with the Service Manager Data Warehouse* Implement Security RolesIn DetailSystem Center Service Manager (SCSM) is an integrated platform that offers a simplified data center management experience by implementing best practices such as Incident Management, Service Request, and Change control to achieve efficient service delivery across your organization.This book provides you with real-world, immediately usable recipes that will show you how to configure and administer SCSM 2016. You'll also find out how to solve particular problems and scenarios to take this tool further. You'll work through recipes on the practical implementation of ITSM frameworks and processes, Microsoft System Center 2016 Service Manager administration, how to configure Service Level Agreements (SLAs). We also cover the newly added features to the Service Manager HTML 5 Self-Service Portal, Incident and Problem Management, the design of change and release management as well as implementing and editing security roles.Toward the end of the book, we'll look at across advanced topics, such as presenting the wealth of information stored within the Service Manager Data Warehouse, standardizing SCSM deployments, and implementing automation.

System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook,
System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook,

Author: EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2018-02-21

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 1785881973

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Maximize your administration skills effectively and efficiently Key Features Implement cost-effective virtualization solutions for your organization with actionable recipes Explore the concepts of VMM with real-world use cases Use the latest features with VMM 2016 such as Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade, Guarded Fabric and Storage Spaces Direct Book Description Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2016 is part of the System Center suite to configure and manage datacenters and offers a unified management experience on-premises and Azure cloud. This book will be your best companion for day-to-day virtualization needs within your organization, as it takes you through a series of recipes to simplify and plan a highly scalable and available virtual infrastructure. You will learn the deployment tips, techniques, and solutions designed to show users how to improve VMM 2016 in a real-world scenario. The chapters are divided in a way that will allow you to implement the VMM 2016 and additional solutions required to effectively manage and monitor your fabrics and clouds. We will cover the most important new features in VMM 2016 across networking, storage, and compute, including brand new Guarded Fabric, Shielded VMs and Storage Spaces Direct. The recipes in the book provide step-by-step instructions giving you the simplest way to dive into VMM fabric concepts, private cloud, and integration with external solutions such as VMware, Operations Manager, and the Windows Azure Pack. By the end of this book, you will be armed with the knowledge you require to start designing and implementing virtual infrastructures in VMM 2016. What you will learn Plan and design a VMM architecture for real-world deployment Configure fabric resources, including compute, networking, and storage Create and manage Storage Spaces Direct clusters in VMM Configure Guarded Fabric with Shielded VMs Create and deploy virtual machine templates and multi-tier services Manage Hyper-V and VMware environments from VMM Enhance monitoring and management capabilities Upgrade to VMM 2016 from previous versions Who this book is for If you are a solutions architect, technical consultant, administrator, or any other virtualization enthusiast who needs to use Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager in a real-world environment, then this is the book for you.

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Field Experience
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Field Experience

Author: Danny Hermans

Publisher: Microsoft Press

Published: 2015-04-10

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0735695873

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Part of a series of specialized guides on System Center, this book focuses on Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. For the seasoned professional, it covers the role of the Operations Manager product, the best practices for working with management packs, how to use the reporting feature to simplify managing the product, how to thoroughly troubleshoot, and how to use and install Operations Manager in the Microsoft Azure Public Cloud environment.

Microsoft System Center 2012 Unleashed
Microsoft System Center 2012 Unleashed

Author: Chris Amaris

Publisher: Sams Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 1032

ISBN-13: 067233612X

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This is the definitive real-world guide to Microsoft System Center 2012, Microsoft's newest and most powerful version of System Center. Authored by consultants who've deployed System Center in hundreds of enterprises and innovative smaller businesses, this book brings together up-to-the-minute tips, tricks, and techniques you just won't find anywhere else. You'll learn how to use System Center's powerful capabilities to build highly-efficient managed environments that encompass datacenters, cloud environments, client computers, mobile devices, and more. The authors address planning, design, implementation, integration, and administration, and cover every component, including Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, Data Protection Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, Service Manager, and Orchestrator. Use Configuration Manager 2012 to deliver software and updates in highly-distributed environments including datacenters, clouds, and mobile devices Reliably manage and report on assets with Configuration Manager 2012 Perform monitoring, alerting, operations, and security reporting with Operations Manager 2012 Use Data Protection Manager 2012to protect file systems, SQL, Microsoft Exchange, and SharePoint Leverage Data Protection Manager 2012's improved central monitoring and remote recovery Run Hyper-V virtualized environments with VMM 2012--including new private clouds and mixed private/public fabrics Use Service Manager 2012 to provide top-down integration, and use Orchestrator 2012 for bottom-up process automation and integration "glue" Give users an efficient self-service portal for creating service and incident requests and browsing service catalogs Manage service offerings and implement enterprise-wide change control with Service Manager 2012 Ensure compliance by creating, executing, and repeating auditable, documented processes with Orchestrator 2012

Microsoft System Center 2012 Orchestrator Cookbook
Microsoft System Center 2012 Orchestrator Cookbook

Author: Samuel Erskine

Publisher: Packt Pub Limited

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9781849688505

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This book is written in a practical, Cookbook style with numerous chapters and recipes focusing on creating runbooks to automate mission critical and everyday administration tasks.System Center 2012 Orchestrator is for administrators who wish to simplify the process of automating systems administration tasks. This book assumes that you have a basic knowledge of Windows Server 2008 Administration, Active Directory, Network Systems, and Microsoft System Center technologies.

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook
VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

Author: Daniel Langenhan

Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd

Published: 2015-02-27

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1784393703

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If you are a VMware administrator who is interested in automating your infrastructure, this book is for you. An understanding of basic programming concepts is advised. No previous knowledge of Orchestrator is required, although some previous knowledge of it will allow you to get started more easily.

Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2
Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2

Author: Mitch Tulloch

Publisher: Microsoft Press

Published: 2013-11-15

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0735682798

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NOTE: This title is also available as a free eBook on the Microsoft Download Center. It is offered for sale in print format as a convenience. Get a head start evaluating Windows Server 2012 R2 - with technical insights from a Microsoft MVP and members of the Windows Server product team. Based on final Windows Server 2012 R2 release-to-manufacturing (RTM) software, this guide introduces new features and capabilities, with scenario-based advice on how the platform can meet the needs of your business. Get the high-level overview you need to begin preparing your deployment now. Coverage includes: Server virtualization and cloud solutions Availability and scalability Provisioning and storage management Security features, access, and data protection Infrastructure options Server management and automation