1. SCORCH – Fun Recipes for RunBooks MMS Minnesota 2014 Steve Jesok & Matthew Teegarden @SteveJesok http://mnscug.org/blogs/steve-jesok #MMSSCOrch

2. Our Agenda Orchestrator Overview Things to consider when building RunBooks Let make some things happen! Create an AD User Monitor SCCM Application Requests Monitoring Scorch with Scorch Reporting, reporting, reporting… Import Inventory Data to SCCM PowerShell and SCCM Trigger SSRS Reports MMS Minnesota 2014

3. SCOrch Overview MMS Minnesota 2014 Components Runbook Designer Web Console Deployment Manager Web Service Database

4. Things to consider MMS Minnesota 2014 Keep runbooks modular, they are building blocks Initiation, Control, and Components Keep things tidy, aka avoid 50 steps in a RunBook Watch RunBook performance Orchestrator is meant to automate, not replace other tools. Control SCCM, controls SSRS, use the existing building blocks.

5. Create AD User MMS Minnesota 2014 Create an AD User and Send Data To SCSM Demo

6. Monitor SCCM Application Requests MMS Minnesota 2014 Create Notifications for SCCM Application Requests Query the database to pickup requests Drop the items in Sharepoint Action the approved requests

7. Monitoring SCOrch with SCOrch MMS Minnesota 2014 Rather than watch them all, just watch one. SharePoint List Monitor Runbook Component Runbook Email Alerts

8. Reporting doesn’t have to be have hard… MMS Minnesota 2014 Finding issues in the Designer console Always reactive Notified something is wrong, after it has happened at least once. Use the logging pane in Runbook Designer Log History Audit History Events All of this data is in the database! Get it here

9. Import Inventory Data into SCCM MMS Minnesota 2014 Company Inventory Data Import MOF Run SQL queries to discover MOF Inbox drop Data in one place Why, dynamic collections based on users assigned computer equipment

10. SCCM and PowerShell MMS Minnesota 2014 Using the SCCM Cmdlets with SCCM Leverage PSSession Block Boot Media Monitor limiting collections

11. Execute an SSRS Report MMS Minnesota 2014 Leverage a little SQL Create a Report Create a Report Subscription Grant access to the service acct Edit extension settings and fire Check the status of the report

12. Automated the small parts then go big! MMS Minnesota 2014 Start with the small parts then go big Automate collection management for software deployments Automate OSD and Refreshes Automate management of dead objects in AD Use automated SSRS integration to dynamically send reports

13. Where can I get more information? MMS Minnesota 2014 Resources Orchestrator Team Blog - http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/ Andorfer’s Blog - http://opalis.wordpress.com/http://opalis.wordpress.com/ Anders’ Blog - http://contoso.se/blog/http://contoso.se/blog/ Codeplex SCOrch - http://scorch.codeplex.com/http://scorch.codeplex.com/ Orchestrator eBook - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2013/09/18/free-ebook- system-center-designing-orchestrator-runbooks.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2013/09/18/free-ebook- system-center-designing-orchestrator-runbooks.aspx SMA - http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Service-Management- fcd75828/file/107343/4/Service%20Management%20Automation%20whitepaper-1.0.3.pdfhttp://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Service-Management- fcd75828/file/107343/4/Service%20Management%20Automation%20whitepaper-1.0.3.pdf Download and use Feedly!

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