Best Practices for Orchestrator Runbook Authoring SIM313 Best Practices for Orchestrator Runbook Authoring Gareth James Senior Consultant

Agenda Workflow development and change General Structure Naming Link Logic Global Objects Error handling Advanced Techniques (Routing Engine, Logging IP) References

Runbook Development and Change Treat Orchestrator Runbooks like code Dev/Test/Production environments Check-in/Check-out facility Versioning Changes to production Runbooks by import ONLY Change Control

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References/Resources Runbook Authoring best practises http://blogs.technet.com/b/charlesjoy/archive/2011/06/13/ois-6-3-advanced-workflow-amp-best-practice-video-tutorial.aspx Policy Authoring downloadable examples http://blogs.technet.com/b/opalis/archive/2010/05/07/workflow-authoring-examples-and-samples.aspx Oplais Policy to Orchestrator Runbook Migration http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh420350.aspx Codeplex External Logging tool http://orchestrator.codeplex.com/releases/view/76097 Error trapping in Powershell http://technet.microsoft.com/en-sg/library/2009.01.windowspowershell.aspx

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