Automation–Greatest Hits and Blog Reference Guide
Hello again Readers/Viewers!
Like my previous post over at “Blog D'Joy”, this post will act as a reference to the various posts that I have done in the past and be updated to include the new ones that I have continued to publish here on Building Clouds!
Recently, Jim Britt and I curated that old “Guide to Blog D'Joy” blog post to bubble up only the most popular posts (2.5k+ page views or significant video view counts)… those, combined with my new/refreshed posts will be the contents of this post moving forward.
VIDEOS
My CharlesJoyMS YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/charlesjoyMS
Building Clouds Blog Video Demonstrations Ongoing Playlist
Building Clouds TV Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/BuildingCloudsTV
DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT
TechNet Gallery: Building Clouds Blog Tagged Contributions
BUILDING CLOUDS BLOG TAGGED POSTS
TechNet Gallery Contribution Posts
The following section will be broken up into the following main post categories: “General Usage”, “Extensibility”, “TechNet Gallery Contributions / Integration Packs”, “Tips and Tricks”, and “Just for Fun”
GENERAL USAGE
- Nested Runbooks
- Data Manipulation Functions
- Orchestrator to SCVMM PowerShell Execution Options
- Orchestrator & SharePoint, Together At Last
- PowerShell to SQL - Runbook Options with Orchestrator
- 8 Minute Demo – System Center - Automated Provisioning Process
- 8 Minute Demo – Simple Disaster Recovery with System Center 2012!
- Orchestrator – Advanced Runbook & Best Practice Video Tutorials
- Automation–Orchestrating the Cloud
- Automation–Orchestrating Service Manager Orchestrating Orchestrator
- Automation–Orchestrating Windows Azure–Solving the Public Cloud Puzzle with System Center 2012 SP1
- Automation–Orchestrating Hyper-V Replica with System Center for Planned Failover
EXTENSIBILITY
- Does Orchestrator have an Integration Pack for __________?
- .NET Scripting Object – C#
- .NET Scripting Object – PowerShell!
- Invoke Web Services Object
- Query Database Object (SQL)
- Automation–Orchestrator Extensibility Kit for SC Operations Manager
TECHNET GALLERY CONTRIBUTIONS / INTEGRATION PACKS
- Automation–Orchestrator Integration Pack for Standard Logging
- Automation–Orchestrator Integration Pack for PowerShell Script Execution
- Automation–Orchestrator Integration Pack for Windows Tasks
- Automation–Orchestrator Integration Pack for MSSQL Tasks
- Automation–Orchestrator Integration Pack for Text Manipulation
- Automation–Orchestrator Extensibility Kit for SC Operations Manager
- Automation–Orchestrator Architecture and Runbook Deployment Process
- Automation–Orchestrating Windows Azure–Solving the Public Cloud Puzzle with System Center 2012 SP1
- Automation–Orchestrating Hyper-V Replica with System Center for Planned Failover
- Automation–Exploring the PowerShell behind the Surface Pro Hijinks
TIPS AND TRICKS
- Ad-Hoc Process Monitor with PowerShell
- Duplicate Link Finder
- Link Properties, Published Data with Newline Characters, and Regular Expressions
- Invoke Web Services Object – Workaround for “Unexpected” XML Output
- 8 Minute Demo – Runbook Designer Zoom!
- Automation–Orchestrating Service Manager–Unexpected Activity Filter Behavior Workaround
- Automation–Orchestrating Service Manager–User Inputs
- Automation–Orchestrating Service Manager–Action Log
- Automation–Orchestrator Integration Toolkit–Cascading Dependencies Quick Feature Overview
- Automation–Orchestrator Runbook Spotlight–Virtual Machine Startup by Priority
- Automation–Orchestrator Tip/Trick–Run .Net Script Activity + PowerShell + Published Data Arrays
JUST FOR FUN
For more information and tips/tricks for Orchestrator, be sure to watch for blog posts in the Automation Track!
enJOY!