Automate Any Lync Task with Orchesetrator and PowerShell

If you use both Orchestrator and Microsoft Lync, you have probably wished there was some sort of integration pack for Lync. This would be fantastic, however, since it does not exist currently, I have a great solution. Orchestrator Run .Net Activity and PowerShell remoting. I’m sure I’m not the first to figure this out, as …

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Orchestrator and Powershell: Get Server Services

I was once asked by a coworker if I had an automation filter in my head that I ran my emails through, after I proposed a solution in Orchestrator to a problem we had. After thinking about it, I’m pretty sure I do!Anyway, we were recently tasked with documenting all our service accounts on all …

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Orchestrator: How to pass published data between runbooks

This is a quick one and fairly easy for anyone that has been using Orchestrator for any length of time. However, for new users this isn’t very self explanatory as it doesn’t work quite how you think it would especially the Return Data activity.So if we invoke a runbook that has no published data in …

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Orchestrator: Reboot Server with Service Check

Hello and welcome to my System Center blog. These days it seems everyone has a blog, so why should you read mine? I have been working with System Center for four years and I have learned everything I know exclusively from following other peoples blogs and of course hands on experience with the product. My …

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