5. Lower costs and improve predictability Automation Enable service owners to focus on work that adds business value Reduce error-prone manual activities while lowering costs Optimize and extend existing investments Integration Integrate into existing systems with PowerShell integration modules Build additional PS modules to enable integrating into other systems Deliver flexible and reliable services Orchestration Accelerate time to value with flexible process workflows Improve service reliability across multiple tools, systems, and department silos

6. Azure Monitoring Systems Change Control Systems Anything Runbook Authoring in Azure: Create runbooks to automate all aspects of cloud management in cloud based Monaco editor. Highly Available Engine: Support requirements for scale and H/A. Built on PowerShell Workflow. Isolation for runbook jobs. Integration into other systems: Import existing or create new PS modules and runbooks for Azure services or to connect into 3 rd party systems. Automation Purge stale logs from SQL Staged deployment of a service Remediate alert on a service Patch Azure VMs without downtime

7. PowerShell Workflow Use Windows PowerShell syntax Multi-device management Running a single task to manage complex, end- to-end processes Automated failure recovery Connection and activity retries Centralized store Credentials / certificates Global variable Global connection for runbooks Modules Runbooks (draft / published versioning) Scheduling Highly Available Runbook servers to process jobs Odata Web service to submit / retrieve status SQL Server clustering / always on Historical Analysis Historical view of runbook jobs Reporting through Excel PowerPivot for ROI View runbook used for all jobs PowerShell Workflow Centralized store Highly Available Historical Analysis Microsoft Azure Automation

9. Create Automation Accounts Organize your automation by group or individual contributor Accounts can live in different regions Create up to 25 accounts Use Automation Dashboard Operational dashboard for analysis and troubleshooting Quickly access “problem” jobs to get up and running quickly

10. Author Create PowerShell Workflow runbooks Call existing runbooks in library Manage and browse and insert assets in runbooks Modules and Activities Credentials (PowerShell Credentials and Certificates) Variables (standard and encrypted) Connections Schedules Test Run runbook and see results within authoring window Troubleshoot issues Publish Edit draft before publishing

11. Dashboard View View runbook jobs over time Find jobs that may need attention Runbooks View Filtering of jobs based on status and date Identify authoring state (New, In edit, Published) Filter by tags to group related runbooks Jobs View History of jobs per runbook Who last updated and when Input parameters and output Drill into each job to view streams generated to help troubleshooting Stop, Suspend and Resume job

12. Manage global assets Add additional integration modules Update to new versions of integration modules Create / manage credentials Create / manage connections Create / manage variables Manage Schedules

19. Orchestrator for DatacenterAzure Automation, SMA and Azure Pack User Interface Standalone Management Console Access Permissions (RBAC) User Interface Web portal Authoring Graphical, forms-based authoring of runbooks Visualize end-to-end orchestration Testing console to validate end to end process Authoring PowerShell Authoring Service Administrator can create runbooks to automate all aspects of cloud infrastructure, plan delivery, and maintenance activities Runbook Engine Highly available Custom workflow engine Databus to easily pass information between activities Runbook Engine Highly available PowerShell Workflow based engine Integration Integration packs for Microsoft and 3 rd party systems Orchestrator toolkit to extend into custom systems Integration PowerShell Module based integration Use existing PowerShell modules for Microsoft and 3 rd party systems Create PowerShell modules for additional resources/systems

20. One Automation Solution for Azure and On Premises User Interface Web portal Access Permissions (RBAC) Authoring Graphical Authoring PowerShell Authoring Visualize end-to-end orchestration Gallery Service Administrator can create runbooks to automate all aspects of cloud infrastructure, plan delivery, and maintenance activities Runbook Engine Highly available PowerShell Workflow based engine Integration PowerShell Module based integration Use existing PowerShell modules for Microsoft and 3 rd party systems Create PowerShell modules for additional resources/systems Tools Tools to convert SCO Integration Packs and runbooks to unified Orchestrator solution

22. Patch Azure IaaS VMs without downtime, leveraging Traffic manager. Enable regeneration of storage account keys while avoiding downtime in the application. Backup IaaS VMs on a schedule. Change Control & Provisioning

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