Understanding System Center 2012 Orchestrator

System Center 2012 Orchestrator is one of the newest products added to the System Center line of products. Orchestrator 2012 was originally called Opalis, which Microsoft acquired in 2009/2010 and slipped into the System Center enterprise licensing suite in 2010. Orchestrator 2012 is a “runbook automation tool,” which in plain English is simply a scripting tool that helps organizations build common processes and practices and allows those processes to be launched and run repeatedly with consistency.

Although scripting has been available and used in systems management processes for years, most of the scripts have been created from a variety of scripting languages (for example, Visual Basic, Visual ...

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