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Book Microsoft System Center Introduction to Microsoft Automation Solutions

Download or read book Microsoft System Center Introduction to Microsoft Automation Solutions written by Mitch Tulloch and published by Microsoft Press. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides you with an introduction to the Microsoft automation solutions: Azure Automation and Service Management Automation. Throughout the chapters, the text explores these tools and how they can be used to meet the automation needs of your Microsoft Azure cloud solutions or your enterprise datacenter environments. We provide considerations on the features of each solution, and how they can be architected to fit your needs. Next, the text explores the interfaces you will use to interact with the solutions, including the web-based portals, Windows PowerShell command-line interaction, and programmatic access via the web services. The text then covers how you implement and manage automation using runbooks, assets, and Integration Modules, along with how you can use a source control system to manage runbook content. Finally, some examples of automation scenarios are discussed, providing you with samples that can be used to speed development in your own solution.

Book Microsoft System Center Designing Orchestrator Runbooks

Download or read book Microsoft System Center Designing Orchestrator Runbooks written by David Ziembicki and published by Microsoft Press. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series of specialized guides on System Center - this book delivers a focused drilldown into designing runbooks for Orchestrator workflow management solutions. Series editor Mitch Tulloch and a team of System Center experts provide concise technical guidance as they step you through key design concepts, criteria, and tasks.

Book Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Field Experience

Download or read book Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Field Experience written by Manoj Pal and published by Microsoft Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series of specialized guides on System Center - this book shares real-world expertise for using Configuration Manager capabilities to deliver more effective IT services. Series editor Mitch Tulloch and a team of System Center experts provide concise technical guidance as they step you through key deployment and management scenarios.

Book Microsoft System Center Building a Virtualized Network Solution

Download or read book Microsoft System Center Building a Virtualized Network Solution written by Nigel Cain and published by Microsoft Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series of specialized guides on System Center - this book provides focused drilldown into building a virtualized network solution. Series editor Mitch Tulloch and a team of System Center experts provide concise technical guidance as they step you through key build, configuration, and implementation tasks.

Book Microsoft Azure Essentials Azure Automation

Download or read book Microsoft Azure Essentials Azure Automation written by Michael McKeown and published by Microsoft Press. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microsoft Azure Essentials from Microsoft Press is a series of free ebooks designed to help you advance your technical skills with Microsoft Azure. The second ebook in the series, Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Automation, introduces a fairly new feature of Microsoft Azure called Azure Automation. Using a highly scalable workflow execution environment, Azure Automation allows you to orchestrate frequent deployment and life cycle management tasks using runbooks based on Windows PowerShell Workflow functionality. These runbooks are stored in and backed up by Azure. By automating runbooks, you can greatly minimize the occurrence of errors when carrying out repeated tasks and process automation. Watch Microsoft Press’s blog and Twitter (@MicrosoftPress) to learn about other free ebooks in the Microsoft Azure Essentials series.

Book Microsoft System Center Optimizing Service Manager

Download or read book Microsoft System Center Optimizing Service Manager written by Thomas Ellermann and published by Microsoft Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series of specialized guides on System Center - this book provides focused guidance for deploying and customizing Service Manager, an integrated platform for automating and adapting an organization’s IT service management best practices. Led by series editor Mitch Tulloch, a team of System Center experts step you through key technical scenarios and tasks.

Book Microsoft System Center Extending Operations Manager Reporting

Download or read book Microsoft System Center Extending Operations Manager Reporting written by George Wallace and published by Microsoft Press. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The System Center Operations Manager data warehouse stores many objects, making it possible to report on performance, availability, configuration, and security. You can use data collected by Operations Manager for issue tracking, awareness, planning, and forecasting, all of which are important factors for maintaining and managing your environment. But understanding what to report on and how to do so is what actually contributes to the stability of your infrastructure. If you're not using the data you collect about your environment, you're simply wasting space. If you use Operations Manager to monitor your environment, whether your infrastructure or a public, private, or hybrid cloud, this book is a good resource to help you understand the basics of reporting and how to build queries and stored procedures for your reports. It can also help you understand the various elements of Operations Manager management packs that are used when you create reports.

Book Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Field Experience

Download or read book Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Field Experience written by Danny Hermans and published by Microsoft Press. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series of specialized guides on System Center, this book focuses on Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. For the seasoned professional, it covers the role of the Operations Manager product, the best practices for working with management packs, how to use the reporting feature to simplify managing the product, how to thoroughly troubleshoot, and how to use and install Operations Manager in the Microsoft Azure Public Cloud environment.

Book Microsoft System Center Software Update Management Field Experience

Download or read book Microsoft System Center Software Update Management Field Experience written by Andre Della Monica and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 800x600 Focused technical guidance from System Center experts Part of a series of specialized guides on System Center--this book walks through the tools and resources used to manage the complex task of tracking and applying software updates to client computers in the enterprise using Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2, or later. Written by experts on the Microsoft System Center team and with Microsoft MVP Mitch Tulloch as series editor, this title focuses on maintaining operational efficiency, minimizing security issues, and maintaining the stability of the network infrastructure. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4

Book Microsoft Azure Essentials   Fundamentals of Azure

Download or read book Microsoft Azure Essentials Fundamentals of Azure written by Michael Collier and published by Microsoft Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microsoft Azure Essentials from Microsoft Press is a series of free ebooks designed to help you advance your technical skills with Microsoft Azure. The first ebook in the series, Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure, introduces developers and IT professionals to the wide range of capabilities in Azure. The authors - both Microsoft MVPs in Azure - present both conceptual and how-to content for key areas, including: Azure Websites and Azure Cloud Services Azure Virtual Machines Azure Storage Azure Virtual Networks Databases Azure Active Directory Management tools Business scenarios Watch Microsoft Press’s blog and Twitter (@MicrosoftPress) to learn about other free ebooks in the “Microsoft Azure Essentials” series.

Book Microsoft System Center   Network Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Download or read book Microsoft System Center Network Virtualization and Cloud Computing written by Mitch Tulloch and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series of specialized guides on System Center - this book delivers a focused overview of network virtualization capabilities and cloud computing scenarios. Series editor Mitch Tulloch and a team of System Center experts provide concise technical guidance as they step you through key technical scenarios and considerations.

Book Microsoft System Center 2012 Unleashed

Download or read book Microsoft System Center 2012 Unleashed written by Chris Amaris and published by Sams Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive real-world guide to Microsoft System Center 2012, Microsoft's newest and most powerful version of System Center. Authored by consultants who've deployed System Center in hundreds of enterprises and innovative smaller businesses, this book brings together up-to-the-minute tips, tricks, and techniques you just won't find anywhere else. You'll learn how to use System Center's powerful capabilities to build highly-efficient managed environments that encompass datacenters, cloud environments, client computers, mobile devices, and more. The authors address planning, design, implementation, integration, and administration, and cover every component, including Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, Data Protection Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, Service Manager, and Orchestrator. Use Configuration Manager 2012 to deliver software and updates in highly-distributed environments including datacenters, clouds, and mobile devices Reliably manage and report on assets with Configuration Manager 2012 Perform monitoring, alerting, operations, and security reporting with Operations Manager 2012 Use Data Protection Manager 2012to protect file systems, SQL, Microsoft Exchange, and SharePoint Leverage Data Protection Manager 2012's improved central monitoring and remote recovery Run Hyper-V virtualized environments with VMM 2012--including new private clouds and mixed private/public fabrics Use Service Manager 2012 to provide top-down integration, and use Orchestrator 2012 for bottom-up process automation and integration "glue" Give users an efficient self-service portal for creating service and incident requests and browsing service catalogs Manage service offerings and implement enterprise-wide change control with Service Manager 2012 Ensure compliance by creating, executing, and repeating auditable, documented processes with Orchestrator 2012

Book Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2 Essentials

Download or read book Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2 Essentials written by Miguel Oliveira and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design, implement, and improve your infrastructure administration with System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2's automation process About This Book Learn about the components of Orchestrator, the design and implementation process, and the way it interacts with your environment to create outstanding automation processes Gain an in-depth understanding of Runbooks, while exploring its security and troubleshooting aspects Follow this step-by-step guide at your own pace and get yourself in the frontline of the Orchestrator world Who This Book Is For This book is targeted for those who want to gain time in their administrative tasks and profit from it to improve also their environment by reaching a more autonomous infrastructure. Experience with other System Center family products as well as Active Directory and other core datacentre components would be useful to help you understand and execute the information given in this book. What You Will Learn Plan, assess, design, and implement Orchestrator 2012 R2 in a corporate environment Master the Runbook Designer and discover all about the Runbook creation process Import and integrate more technologies through new imported functionalities and learn what they bring to your environment Extend your possibilities and interaction with your environment while you get a hand of the best practices for this system Implement high-availability, security, backup, and recovery procedures and fine-tuning of the platform Familiarize yourself with the Runbook design and its implementation with an insight into the methodology for a more dynamic Datacenter In Detail With the increasing complexity of systems in our infrastructure designs, administrating these systems has become more complex and repetitive. This ultimately translates into an inefficient environment and loss of time. System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2 is the tool that can help you regain that time again, by simplifying repetitive tasks (or complex ones) into a simple one that will require minimum intervention from you, or even none. This technology will drive you one step forward towards a more dynamic infrastructure and can also be used to make a customized Private Cloud environment setup. Starting off with the fundamentals of Orchestrator, this book helps you to learn the configuration and deployment of the Orchestrator 2012 R2 in a corporate environment to successfully deploy and mitigate real-life issues that you might encounter. You'll learn the most used part of Orchestrator, the Runbook Designer, with all its components and mechanisms to help you efficiently design and implement your Runbooks from top to bottom. Additionally, you will also get familiarized with configuring key Integration Packs available for Orchestrator to extend its functionality and enhance the automation solution. Furthermore, you will explore the possibilities of extending and integrating Orchestrator with other parties and learn to set up core infrastructure administrative tasks that can save time and effort when automated with Orchestrator. You finally round off by gaining insights on the maintenance aspects of Orchestrator, while simultaneously covering the troubleshooting, backup, and recovery features. Style and approach Written in a step-by-step guide format, the chapters are organized in a sequence of what you need to know first to move on to the next component. Each chapter contains a broad explanation of what we are working on at that moment and the tips provided are based on real-world experience.

Book Automating Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services

Download or read book Automating Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services written by Michael Washam and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get valuable tips and techniques for automating your cloud deployments with Azure PowerShell cmdlets, and learn how to provision Azure services on the fly. In this hands-on guide, Microsoft cloud technology expert Michael Washam shows you how to automate various management tasks and deploy solutions that are both complex and at scale. By combining the native automation capabilities of PowerShell with Azure Infrastructure Services, these powerful cmdlets enable you to create and configure virtual machines with ease. You’ll learn how to take advantage of these technologies to build complete virtual networks. If you have experience with PowerShell and Azure, you’re ready to get started. Install and authenticate cmdlets to set up your environment Create and update virtual machines with Azure platform images Manage network endpoints, access control lists, and IP addresses Use cmdlets to manage and configure virtual machine storage Automate Azure virtual networks with hybrid technologies such as site-to-site, point-to-site, and ExpressRoute Dive into advanced virtual machine provisioning capabilities and management techniques Learn tips and tricks for deleting or moving virtual machines within (or out of) your subscription

Book Microsoft System Center Deploying Hyper V with Software Defined Storage   Networking

Download or read book Microsoft System Center Deploying Hyper V with Software Defined Storage Networking written by Mitch Tulloch and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused technical guidance from System Center experts Part of a series of specialized guidance on System Center--this book provides a single end-to-end resource on Microsoft's software-defined datacenter solution built upon Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V and System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager. The book walks you through a proof of concept (POC) deployment of a software-defined compute, storage, and networking infrastructure, starting from racking bare-metal servers through to the streamlined deployment of virtual machines.

Book Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate

Download or read book Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate written by Aaron Guilmette and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find our new updated edition to get the latest industry knowledge at your disposal Key Features Learn the latest in Power Automate with updated user interface visuals and new technology included Apply practical knowledge like managing user inputs, documents, approvals, and database storage Create flows that integrate with services both inside and outside the Microsoft 365 ecosystem Book DescriptionMicrosoft Power Automate is a workflow automation solution included in Microsoft 365. This book explores the core concepts of workflow automation, such as working with connectors, triggers, and actions, along with their practical implementation in automating business tasks and simplifying digital processes to boost enterprise productivity.What you will learn Learn the basic building blocks of Power Automate capabilities Explore connectors in Power Automate to automate email workflows Discover how to make a flow for copying files between cloud services Configure Power Automate Desktop flows for your business needs Build on examples to create complex database and approval flows Connect common business applications like Outlook, Forms, and Teams Learn the introductory concepts for robotic process automation Discover how to use AI sentiment analysis Who this book is for The book is for technologists, system administrators, and Power users with little or no Microsoft Power Automate experience. Familiarity with basic Microsoft 365 services is expected.

Book Enterprise Cloud Strategy

Download or read book Enterprise Cloud Strategy written by Barry Briggs and published by Microsoft Press. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you start? How should you build a plan for cloud migration for your entire portfolio? How will your organization be affected by these changes? This book, based on real-world cloud experiences by enterprise IT teams, seeks to provide the answers to these questions. Here, you’ll see what makes the cloud so compelling to enterprises; with which applications you should start your cloud journey; how your organization will change, and how skill sets will evolve; how to measure progress; how to think about security, compliance, and business buy-in; and how to exploit the ever-growing feature set that the cloud offers to gain strategic and competitive advantage.