Integrating SharePoint with Service Management Automation (SMA) A while ago I wrote a post about integration between SharePoint 2010 and System Center Orchestrator, and the solution has been successfully used so far in my company. Since then, we moved to SharePoint 2013 and Microsoft released their new runbook engine – “Service Management Automation” (SMA) that integrated with the Windows Azure Pack (WAP). […]
PowerShell SSH Module for Nonstandard Devices Like Cisco ASA So I needed to automate some configuration tasks on a Cisco ASA firewall, and thought it will be an easy task since it has an SSH interface. But after a couple of failed tries and some searching on the web, I realized that I could not use the standard SSH command mode to access the […]
Integrating SharePoint and System Center Orchestrator The Problem SharePoint workflows, which are based on Microsoft WF, are a great way to automate processes that require human interaction and can be easily managed through SharePoint designer, without any custom development. But when it comes to automating IT processes, Microsoft provides us with another workflows engine called Orchestrator (part of System center). The […]
Validating User Resources for Deploying a Service Template The System Center VMM PowerShell module is very rich and contains more than 400 cmdlets, but it is missing some trivial cmdlets IMO that will help determine if a specific user has enough resources to deploy a new virtual machine or a new service template. Initially it sounds like an easy task, just get the […]
Executing System Center Orchestrator 2012 Runbooks from C# The Problem: System Center Orchestrator 2012 exposes a data service that enables to query and execute runbooks. But working directly with the data service is like executing a WCF service by manually composing the SOAP messages. There are no type-safe parameters, no intellisense and you need to type the exact path of the runbook or […]
