About this Course

This is a one or two-day instructor-led course that provides participants with knowledge and skills to begin to use System Center Orchestrator. The course focuses on use of Orchestrator after its installation. It also focuses on how IT processes can be automated using Orchestrator. There are two versions of this course: one-day / 7 hours / 420 minutes without Hands-on Labs, and two-day / 14 hours / 840 minutes with Hands-on Labs. The Course Outline listed here is for the two-day, 14-hour course. The one-day, 7-hour course covers the same presentation material in the same order, condensed to one day as labs are not included. 

At Course Completion 

After completing this course, students will be able to: 

• Explain the structure and function of the components of Orchestrator architecture
  
• Define key Orchestrator concepts and terminology
  
• List and describe the structure and function of the Runbook Designer, Runbook Tester, Orchestration Console and Deployment Manager and use them to design, test, manage and deploy Runbooks
  
• Understand basic Runbook Design constructs and begin to use them to create basic Runbooks in Runbook Designer
  

Course Outline 

Module 1: Introduction to System Center Orchestrator 2012

Module 2: Runbook Designer, Standard Activities, and Runbook Tester

Module 3: Tour of the Orchestration Console and Deployment Manager, Data Store Configuration

Module 4: Runbook Design Basics

Module 5: Creating Basic Runbooks in Runbook Designer

Module 6: Summary and Wrap

TARGET AUDIENCE

This course is intended for Enterprise Systems Engineers, Administrators and System Integrators in the role of Runbook Authors tasked with automating IT processes using Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012.

Before attending this course, students must have: 

• Experience performing IT activities including deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting Windows-based computers as a Windows Server Administrator
  
• Familiarity with basic programming constructs including data types, operators, variables, expressions, assignment, simple I/O, and conditional and iterative flow control structures / selection (if-then iteration; loops, for, while)
  
• Experience as a user of Active Directory
  
• Familiarity with System Center features and functionality
  

Recommended:

• It is recommended participants have achieved the following Microsoft certifications or possess equivalent knowledge
  
• MCTS: System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuring (Exam: 70-400)
  
• MCTS: Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Configuration (Exam: 70-403)
  
• MCTS: Windows Server Virtualization, Configuration (Exam: 70-652)
  

An understanding of the System Center and Virtualization is desired, specifically:

Virtual Machine Manager 2012, Operations Manager 2007 R2, Service Manager 2012, Virtualization Technologies: Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 R2, Automated deployment of server technologies

DURATION

2 days

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