Instructor-led training
Beginner
1 day
English
This is a one or two-day instructor-led course that provides participants with knowledge and skills to begin to use System Center Orchestrator. The course focuses on use of Orchestrator after its installation. It also focuses on how IT processes can be automated using Orchestrator.
There are two versions of this course: one-day / 7 hours / 420 minutes without Hands-on Labs, and two-day / 14 hours / 840 minutes with Hands-on Labs. The Course Outline listed here is for the two-day, 14-hour course. The one-day, 7-hour course covers the same presentation material in the same order, condensed to one day as labs are not included.
Before attending this course, participants must have:
Experience performing IT activities including deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting Windows®-based computers as a Windows® Server Administrator
Familiarity with basic programming constructs including data types, operators, variables, expressions, assignment, simple I/O, and conditional and iterative flow control structures / selection (if-then iteration; loops, for, while)
Experience as a user of Active Directory
Familiarity with System Center features and functionality
Recommended: It is recommended participants have achieved the following Microsoft certifications or possess equivalent knowledge
MCTS: System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuring (Exam: 70-400)
MCTS: Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Configuration (Exam: 70-403)
MCTS: Windows Server Virtualization, Configuration (Exam: 70-652)
An understanding of the System Center and Virtualization is desired, specifically:
This course is intended for Enterprise Systems Engineers, Administrators and System Integrators in the role of Runbook Authors tasked with automating IT processes using Microsoft® System Center Orchestrator 2012
A 360-degree learning approach that you can adapt to your learning style
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Projects provide you with sample work to show prospective employers.
Real-world projects relevant to what you’re learning throughout the program
A support team focused on helping you succeed alongside a peer community
Introduction to System Center Orchestrator 2012
This module provides an overview of System Center Orchestrator 2012 architecture.
System Center Orchestrator Architecture
Orchestrator key Concepts and Terminology
After completing this module, students will be able to:
List the components of System Center Orchestrator 2012’s architecture and describe their functionality
Describe the role of integration packs (IPs), the Orchestrator Integration Toolkit (OIK) and Solution Development Kit (SDK) in extending Orchestrator functionality
Define Orchestrator key concepts and terminology
Runbook Designer, Standard Activities, and Runbook Tester
This module walks participants through the Runbook Designer and Runbook Tester and demonstrates their functionality, and lists and describes Standard Activities.
Tour of the Runbook Designer
Standard Activities
Tour of the Runbook Tester
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the layout and functionality of the Orchestrator Runbook Designer user interface used by Runbook Designers to create, modify, and deploy Runbooks
Describe the layout and functionality of the Runbook Tester interface used to test Runbooks before deployment
List and describe Standard Activities: Scheduling, Monitoring File Management, Email, Notification, Utilities, Active Directory, Windows Tasks, Text File Management
Runbook Design Basics
This module walks through how to create Runbooks using basic Runbook Designer programmatic constructs.
Viewing and setting Runbook, Activity and Smart Link properties and permissions
Runbook Control and Data Flow and Manipulation
After completing this module, students will be able to:
View or set Runbook, Activity and Smart Link properties and permissions, and list common Activity properties
List and describe the basics of Runbook control flow and data control flow and manipulation, including:
Sequence, selection (branching), iteration (looping) for both activities and nested Runbooks
Smart Links and link logic
Junctions
Managing published data, subscription, multi-value data, flattening, data mapping, inter-Runbook data passing, data manipulation functions, handling of persistent data
Protecting the Server and Client
Creating Basic Runbooks in Runbook Designer
This module walks through how to use create basic Runbooks in System Center Orchestrator 2012.
Viewing and setting Runbook, Activity and Smart Link properties and permissions
Runbook Control and Data Flow and Manipulation
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Create basic workflows in Runbook Designer, including:
Simple File Management
Managing an Operating System
Read data from the Service Manager CMDB
Correlate the data from Operations Manager, the CMDB, and Configuration Manager
Take action on impacted devices and remediate the root cause of the alert
Keep incident and problem management up to date throughout the process
The remediation can be as easy as
Deploying software using the Configuration Manager Integration Pack
Executing a PowerShell script
Calling a third party tool to perform maintenance actions
Describe Runbook Design best practices, how a Runbook executes
Summary and Wrap
This module summarizes key points for each topic in the course, identifies topic areas to focus on and review, and helps participants prepare to apply the concepts back on the job.
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