1. Microsoft Operations Management Suite Configuration and Automation
Name

2. Ideologies for shifting investments
Simplicity
Speed
Flexibility
Connects to existing tools
Custom solutions and data
Traditional and modern cloud
Easy-to-use dashboards
Reduced management infrastructure
Cohesive solutions
Setup within minutes
Faster troubleshooting
Real-time innovation

3. Straddling two worlds: challenges for modern management
AND
Cloud model is geared for speed
Developers have a critical business role
Micro-services and modern apps create new complexity
The server is no longer the center point
Application data is business data
Traditional systems still require traditional management

4. AZURE, AWS, PRIVATE CLOUDS
Modern IT investments S I
COST
POLICY
SUBSCRIPTION
DEVOPS TOOLING
PACKAGING
GOVERN
BUILD
SECURE
DETECT
PREVENT
ORCHESTRATION
PATCHING
WINDOWS, LINUX
AZURE, AWS, PRIVATE CLOUDS
CONFIG
CONFIG MONITORING
PROTECT
MONITOR
BACKUP
RECOVERY
ANALYTICS
DISCOVERY
ALERTS

5. Microsoft hybrid IT management
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Microsoft hybrid IT management
Simplified guest and workload management, both on-premises and in the cloud
VMware
WINDOWS
LINUX
HYPER-V
Public cloud
Azure or AWS
Private or hosted third-party cloud,
Rackspace, etc.
VMware
WINDOWS
LINUX
HYPER-V
Microsoft
Operations Management Suite
On-premises with System Center
WINDOWS
LINUX
HYPER-V
VMWare
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6. Operations Management Suite
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Operations Management Suite
Any cloud
Security
Visibility
Microsoft Hybrid Management
Key Scenarios
Insight and Analytics
Configuration and Automation
Application Management
Security
Backup
Disaster Recovery
Protection
Control
System Center
On-premises
Any platform
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7. Configuration and automation
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Any cloud
Configuration and automation
Any platform
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8. Speed with choice and control
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PROTECT
MONITOR
SECURE
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In a highly competitive world, organizations want to drive innovation faster to market
To support this need for speed, you have to enable continuous services with consistent control in their IT environments
You will need a proactive automation and configuration platform that can support this across IT lifecycle
As organization straddle between the on-premises and the cloud environments with a multiple platforms, having a solution that can provide the choice along with speed and control is quintessential

9. Consistent enterprise
Continuous services
Hybrid automation
Consistent enterprise
Speed
The proactive platform should enable the following, across IT life cycle.
Speed through continuous IT services
Choice through hybrid IT automation
Control/Compliance through consistent enterprise

10. Continuous services With OMS: Issue:
You can take immediate action to rectify errors by triggering scripts on demand in the cloud or in your local datacenter.
You can enable responsive IT services and deliver continuous application availability across your IT environment, with improved SLA.
Continuous application deployments are just the starting point.
To really increase velocity, you need a automation platform that can support activities such as deployment, configuration, monitoring and protection.
With OMS, you can avoid fire-fighting and truly improve your SLA across IT lifecycle.
Next slide, will outline the key OMS capabilities that enables you to achieve responsive IT services
Issue:
Resolving infrastructure and application issues can be time-consuming and can impact SLA.
Speed
Choice
Control

11. Capabilities for responsive IT services
Automated
remediation
Orchestrated
recovery
Integrated
solutions
You can act alerts through pre-defined runbooks or Webhooks, that can be triggered from Azure or locally from your own datacenters
You can orchestrate disaster recovery and backups with proper planning and automated scripts customized to your needs
You can leverage an ecosystem of partners and third party vendors, in addition to first-party Microsoft provided automation scripts
Repeatable plans
Order sequencing
Customizable checkpoints
Multi-platform support
Community gallery
Partner ecosystem
Ready-made runbooks
Anywhere triggers
Native webhooks
Speed
Choice
Control

12. Automated remediation
Organizations with automated monitoring and management solutions have a 50 percent reduction in the time administrators spend on day-to-day operations.
*Source: EMA Research Report: Data Center Automation in the Age of Cloud,” July 2013
Automated remediation
Rectify errors with ready-made runbooks or native webhooks.
Trigger runbook in the cloud or locally in the datacenter.
Take action in response to log search query or any alerts.
FACT: “EMA Research Report: Data Center Automation in the Age of Cloud,” July
Notes: With automated remediation capabilities, you can resolve errors through pre-defined runbooks and webhooks tied to log analytics alerts or application dependency maps without any manual intervention. OMS Automation can be used to automatically remediate issues that are found through log analysis. Automation runbooks can also be part of a larger troubleshooting and remediation process that includes gathering more data on an issue, communicating with stakeholders and incident-management systems, and after approval, applying a remediation for the problem.
Speed
Choice
Control

13. Orchestrated recovery
Every minute counts
in a recovery scenario —to the tune of $137 to $427 per minute (SMB).
*Source: IDC: The Growth Opportunity for | SMB Cloud and Hybrid Business Continuity, by Raymond Boggs, Christopher Chute & Laura DuBois; April 2015
Orchestrated recovery
Automate multi-site recovery with repeatable runbooks.
Create groups and sequence the order of multi-tier app recovery.
Customize plans with prompts for manual actions and scripts.
FACT: IDC: The Growth Opportunity for SMB Cloud and Hybrid Business Continuity , by Raymond Boggs, Christopher Chute & Laura DuBois; April 2015
Notes: Recovery plans can orchestrate recovery of virtual machines protected using Site Recovery for both replication to secondary cloud and replication to Azure scenarios. They also help in making the recovery consistently accurate, repeatable, and automated. If needed you can customize the plan to create groups and sequence the order in which machines in the recovery plan are failed over. You can also add prompts for manual actions and scripts.
Speed
Choice
Control

14. More than one in three organizations state poor integration with enterprise software as one of
the top reasons why automation fails to meet business requirements.
*Source: EMA Research Report: Data Center Automation in the Age of Cloud,” July 2013
Integrated solutions
Re-use or customize runbooks for multiple platforms.
Import third-party modules from PowerShell gallery.
Integrate natively with partner solutions, increasing time to value.
FACT: “EMA Research Report: Data Center Automation in the Age of Cloud,” July 2013 Top reasons traditional automation approaches fail to meet business requirements according to EMA survey respondents
Notes: Rather than creating your own runbooks and modules in Automation, you can access a variety of solutions that have already been built by Microsoft and the community. You can either use these solution without modification or you can use them as a starting point and edit them for your specific requirements. You can get runbooks from the Runbook Gallery and modules from the PowerShell Gallery. You can also contribute to the community by sharing solutions that you develop.
With Automation runbooks you can integrate with any system that has a public internet API. Runbooks based on PowerShell can take advantage of the large, public library of integration modules that enable easy process integration with all of the apps and services that you use in your datacenters and clouds. For instance, integration modules exist for Azure, AWS, System Center, and most other common systems.
Speed
Choice
Control

15. Community Gallery Remediation runbooks Recovery plans
Integration modules
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.” - Mark Twain
Community gallery enables easy access to collection of automations across IT lifecycle activities. So you can get started quickly.
Rather than creating your own runbooks and modules in OMS Automation, you can access a variety of solutions that have already been built by Microsoft and the community. You can either use these solution without modification or you can use them as a starting point and edit them for your specific requirements. You can get runbooks from the Runbook Gallery< and modules from the PowerShell Gallery< . You can also contribute to the community by sharing solutions that you develop.
Speed
Choice
Control

16. Consistent enterprise
Continuous services
Hybrid automation
Consistent enterprise
Choice
We discussed the notion of continuous services that enables speed in IT. Next we will focus on choice without which it may be costly and challenging to implement the continuous services.

17. Hybrid IT automation With OMS: Issue:
Managing the IT lifecycle activities in today’s IT environment across platforms and clouds can be challenging and chaotic.
With OMS:
You can simplify provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and protection and also manage change— no matter what type of IT resources you have or where they are located—by adopting proactive automation.
You can enable efficient IT operations and deliver flexible automation across your heterogeneous IT environment.
Continuous application deployments are just the starting point.
To maximize the benefits of speed and control, you need a proactive automation and configuration platform that can support activities spanning across on-premises and the cloud.
With OMS, you can avoid relying on disjointed solutions and leverage your existing investments with a single solution.
Next slide, will outline the key OMS capabilities that enables you to achieve efficient IT operations
Speed
Choice
Control

18. Capabilities for flexible IT operations
Hybrid support
Management tools
Multiple options
You can manage all automation and configuration related assets from a centralized repository with granular access controls
You have the choice to author automations graphically or textually and leverage your existing investments in PowerShell
You can convert your Orchestrator investments to OMS and chose to run your automations from Azure or locally from your datacenters with hybrid runbook workers
Graphical runbooks
PowerShell scripts
Workflows
Central repository
Source control
Operator role
Cross-platform
Migration toolkit
Hybrid worker
Speed
Choice
Control

19. “In the past, we had IT professionals manually building IT environments for our customers one at a time. OMS saves us the time and resources and money so we can focus on other things. Now we have an internal DevOps team, and they're always looking for innovation—inventing something new or combining different services to benefit our customers.”
Toon Dillen
Innovation Manager
Aurelium, Inc.
(an OMS customer)
Management tools
Maintain and access automation assets in a central repository.
Treat automations as code with source control integrations.
Provide just enough access with role-based access control.
FACT: OMS Aurelium Case Study
Notes: Managing automation and configuration across heterogeneous hybrid IT environments can be challenging. With a centralized repository for all related assets, including the ability to treat automations as code with granular access controls such as ‘Automation Operator’ role and ‘Service Principal feature for certificate based authentication – OMS alleviates the pain of management.
Speed
Choice
Control

20. Multiple options “Be the automator, not the automated.”
Ronni Colville
Gartner VP and
Distinguished Analyst
Multiple options
Author runbooks with intuitive graphical programming model.
Use cloud-based graphical editor.
Re-use your existing PowerShell scripts with native support in OMS.
Leverage PowerShell ISE add-on.
Edit runbooks easily in portal with intellisense and color coding.
Get help to access related resources.
FACT: Gartner Analyst at I&O conference
Notes: You can get started and move faster with multitude of authoring options and have the flexibility to re-use your existing PowerShell or Orchestrator investments. Robust toolset to aid with the transition to a proactive automation platform based on your skills.
Speed
Choice
Control

21. Fifty percent of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments by 2017.
Gartner, Inc.
Hybrid support
Automate across platforms on-premises or in any cloud.
Migrate Orchestrator runbooks to OMS and integrate on-premises.
Designate on-premises server(s) to connect with OMS via the Internet.
FACT: By end of 2017, Gartner Says Nearly Half of Large Enterprises Will Have Hybrid Cloud Deployments
Notes:
- Each worker requires the OMS agent with a connection to OMS Automation account to monitor the functionality of the worker, to receive the delivery of the runbooks and their corresponding instructions. You don’t need to open any ports or make any firewall changes, just ensure that the designated Hybrid Runbook Worker has access to Internet.
-Runbooks written to use with hybrid workers will likely differ from other runbooks as they will typically manage local resources in your data center. When the runbook job completes on a Hybrid Worker, it sends the detailed status back to OMS Automation where you can view and troubleshoot the job in the same way you troubleshoot jobs run in Azure.
- You can leverage the System Center Orchestrator Migration Toolkit< to convert runbooks from Orchestrator to OMS Automation. After you migrate your existing Orchestrator runbooks to OMS Automation, you can run them using hybrid workers so you can continue to manage/integrate with all your on-premises resources
Speed
Choice
Control

22. Graphical authoring Graphical runbooks Intuitive editor in web portal
Drag-and-drop controls
Graphical Authoring allows you to create runbooks for OMS Automation without the complexities of the underlying Windows PowerShell Workflow code. You add activities from a library of cmdlets and other activities to a canvas and link them together to form a workflow. Graphical runbooks generate PowerShell code that is run by the Automation workers, but you are not able to view it or directly modify it.
Speed
Choice
Control

23. Consistent enterprise
Continuous services
Hybrid automation
Consistent enterprise
Control
We discussed the notion of speed and choice that enables fast innovation. Next we will focus on control without which the speed and choice may not be useful.

24. Consistent enterprise
Issue:
Deploying infrastructure and application resources with the required configurations and maintaining their state can be tedious and error prone.
With OMS:
You can manage the state of your IT resources by automatically applying, monitoring, and updating configurations.
You can enable compliant IT resources and manage change across your IT environment with ease.
Keeping IT systems updated and satisfying compliance requirements are just the starting point.
To effectively mitigate risks, you need a proactive configuration platform that can support activities across IT lifecycle.
With OMS, you can avoid panics and manage change across heterogeneous IT environments with ease.
Next slide, will outline the key OMS capabilities that enables you to achieve compliant IT resources
Speed
Choice
Control

25. Capabilities for compliant IT resources
Configuration management
Workload-aware patching
Change
monitoring
You can consistently deploy, reliably monitor and automatically update configurations of IT resources avoiding configuration drifts with a standardized reporting
You can relieve the stress out of patching by maintaining control of when and how to patch with approvals from application owners.
You can manage change at one point with change assessment solution that monitors and reports all changes across your IT resources.
Time estimates
Group orchestration
App owner approval
Universal tracker
Dashboard view
Compliance reporting
Pull service
Granular reporting
Automatic update
Speed
Choice
Control

26. Configuration management
Through 2015, 80 percent of outages impacting
mission-critical services
will be caused by people
and process issues, and more than 50 percent of those outages will be caused by change/ configuration/release integration and
hand-off issues.
*Source: Configuration Management for
Virtual and Cloud Infrastructures (White Paper) by Ronni J Colville & George Spafford , Gartner , Inc.
Configuration management
Apply configurations using highly available pull service.
Monitor status of the nodes with granular reporting.
Resolve configuration drifts with automated update.
FACT: Configuration Management for Virtual and Cloud Infrastructures (White Paper) by Ronni J Colville & George Spafford
Notes: Automation DSC allows you to author and manage PowerShell Desired State Configurations, import DSC Resources, and generate DSC Node Configurations (MOF documents), all in the cloud. These DSC items will be placed on the Azure Automation DSC pull server so that target nodes (such as physical and virtual machines) in the cloud or on-premises can pick them up, automatically conform to the desired state they specify, and report back on their compliance with the desired state to Automation.
Speed
Choice
Control

27. Workload-aware patching
It is very difficult
to patch my servers without downtime since I don’t know the dependencies between servers hosting the application.
Microsoft enterprise
customer feedback
Workload-aware patching
Be in the know with insights, including estimated duration.
Group and sequence updates with orchestrated runbooks.
Notify and get approval from application owners.
FACT: Customer feedback from money ball event
Notes: Remove the uncertainty out of patching your servers. The patching solution, in development, provides insights into time estimates and sequence of patches needed to keep your servers up-to date. You can do intelligent patching with workload awareness across heterogeneous environments, including Linux. Patching during business hours will become a reality.
Speed
Choice
Control

28. “Eighty percent of unplanned outages are due to ill-planned changes made by administrators ("operations staff") or developers.”
Visible Ops Handbook
The IT Process Institute
Change monitoring
Keep tab on changes across your IT environment with dashboard view.
Troubleshoot issues quickly by using the change context.
Enable compliance reporting of most of the changes in IT.
FACT:
Notes: Change management made easy, with OMS change monitoring solution. Get a dashboard view of all changes in your IT environment. You can correlate changes to problems and fix them faster. You also get a compliance reporting across on-premises and the cloud environment.
Speed
Choice
Control

29. Intelligent patching Time estimates and sequencing
Grouping and orchestration
Application owner approvals
Speed
Choice
Control

30. Leap ahead with proactive automation
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Try OMS Automation today, to move forward with improved SLA across your IT environment
Gain the speed with choice and control, aligned to your business needs
Deliver innovations faster to market

31. Continuous IT services:
Resolving errors of infrastructure and application resources can be time-consuming and impact SLA.
With automated remediation capabilities, you can resolve errors through pre-defined runbooks and webhooks tied to log analytics alerts or application dependency maps without any manual intervention.
You can enable responsive IT services and deliver continuous application availability across your IT environment.
Consistent enterprise control:
Deploying infrastructure and application resources with the required configurations and maintaining their state can be tedious and error prone.
With configuration management, patching and change assessment solution, you can consistently deploy, reliably monitor, and automatically update your IT resources, at scale, even avoiding configuration drifts of the desired state.
You can enable compliant IT resources and deliver consistent enterprise control across your IT environment.
Flexible hybrid automation:
Provisioning infrastructure and application resources and managing change in today’s heterogeneous IT environment can be challenging and chaotic.
With easy to author automation tools, hybrid worker and native PowerShell support, you can simplify provisioning and manage changes with ease, no matter what type of IT resources you have and where you have them.
You can enable efficient IT operations and deliver flexible hybrid automation across your IT environment.
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