Overview of System Center Orchestrator

System Center Orchestrator is a workflow management solution that allows you to automate the creation, monitoring, and deployment of resources in a data center. Although the level of automation provided by Orchestrator can be addressed by building complex scripts, Orchestrator offers a graphical interface to greatly simplify the process of automating even complex systems administration tasks without requiring scripting knowledge. A simple example of the power of Orchestrator is the common requirement to notify personnel and then take some action to remediate an issue based on an alert that appears in the Windows event log. With Orchestrator, it is possible to simply drag and drop an event monitoring item ...

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