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SCOrch 2019 - Orchestrator Runbook Service account

A few months back, I installed SCOrch 2019 onto a server (both the management server piece and the runbook server piece). Yesterday, I changed the service account used for the Orchestrator Runbook Service. Now, runbooks will not run when triggered by…

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
asked 2021-10-05T11:52:30.817+00:00
Chris.Pierce 101 Reputation points
commented 2021-10-05T15:12:57.827+00:00
Leon Laude 86,031 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Executing an Orchestrator 2016 Runbook via PowerShell and hand over 2 variables

Hi, at the moment, I use the webconsole to execute a runbook. The runbook is using infomations of 2 text(string) fields and the information which portal user is executing the runbook. I did find an example at hh921685(v=msdn.10) But It does…

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
asked 2021-09-27T06:51:25.19+00:00
Sven H 46 Reputation points
accepted 2021-09-27T11:26:42.017+00:00
Sven H 46 Reputation points
1 answer

Issue with JSON input when it passes through Azure Gateway - Need help

I have a Microsoft Orchestrator Runbook web service which consumed by a third party application (Service Now). The Orchestrator Runbook accepts the input request as XML format as shown below. <?xml version="1.0"…

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
asked 2021-09-14T18:45:15.363+00:00
jansi rani krishnan 601 Reputation points
answered 2021-09-16T09:48:37.713+00:00
SaiKishor-MSFT 17,336 Reputation points
0 answers

Orchestrator fail over caused by long query on database

We have Orchestrator setup as fail over cluster. We have quite a few runbooks start with Monitor activity. And recently we found when we do a long select query the server has failed over, and we see multiple job instances with started.... lines. …

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
asked 2021-09-14T20:53:48.11+00:00
Anne 281 Reputation points
commented 2021-09-15T07:19:00.813+00:00
XinGuo-MSFT 22,231 Reputation points
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Need help with getting runbook to loop over 3 runs

I have a runbook that monitors the SSRS service on our SSRS servers. We would like to set it so that it runs but only emails if there have been 3 failures in a row for the service. I am new to Orchestrator and am not sure how to go about setting this…

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
asked 2021-09-07T21:22:06.28+00:00
TBingeman 81 Reputation points
commented 2021-09-10T15:29:45.447+00:00
Stefan Horz 3,466 Reputation points
1 answer

Third party application consuming Orchestrator Runbook through webservice

Hi Experts Team, I have an Orchestrator Runbook which would be consumed by a third party application through a mid-server (Azure layer) using webservice. I have tested this Runbook by writing a PowerShell code in a similar way how the third party…

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
asked 2021-09-07T08:28:20.66+00:00
jansi rani krishnan 601 Reputation points
answered 2021-09-07T18:37:21.777+00:00
Stefan Horz 3,466 Reputation points
9 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Summary emails

I have a runbook that is going to multiple servers to run a script. I have it set up to use concurrency but I need to make sure that we know the results of the script ran on each server in a single email instead of receiving 1.2k emails when the runbook…

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
asked 2021-08-27T17:13:45.377+00:00
TBingeman 81 Reputation points
accepted 2021-09-03T17:16:13.17+00:00
TBingeman 81 Reputation points
2 answers

Calling an Orchestrator Runbook rhrough REST web service from an third party application

Hi Team, I have a set of 4 Runbooks each would be called by a third party application (Service-Now). These Runbooks are created in Orchestrator Server. I had tested these Runbooks by calling them using a PowerShell from SCSM server which is in the…

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
asked 2021-08-19T09:49:14.913+00:00
jansi rani krishnan 601 Reputation points
commented 2021-09-02T18:18:17.323+00:00
Andreas Baumgarten 124K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
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System Center Orchestrator is it still used as Infra Automation Tool?

Hello Experts Dose Microsoft still provide System Cetner orchestrator as Automation tool? is there any integration of this tool can be done with Puppet, Jenkins,Github?

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
asked 2021-05-02T11:53:42.953+00:00
omkar umarani 1 Reputation point
answered 2021-09-01T19:32:34.1+00:00
Stefan Horz 3,466 Reputation points
3 answers

Command was found in the module but the module could not be loaded

I'm trying to run a command from the OpsMgrExtended module: https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/OpsMgrExtended/1.3.1 inside a .NET Script activity. Every time I execute this code I'm given the following error. This command works fine in ISE and…

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
asked 2021-08-13T18:10:37.013+00:00
Robert Groux 176 Reputation points
answered 2021-08-26T20:30:17.427+00:00
Stefan Horz 3,466 Reputation points
5 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Automation-Activity is not an instance of class RunbookAutomationActivity

Hi, when using runbook activity "Update Activity" to update activity status I run into the the following error: [9ac3fcb2-a046-140d-f38c-8c4bf9528680] is not an instance of class…

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
asked 2021-08-16T14:41:48.14+00:00
Artimes 346 Reputation points
accepted 2021-08-20T08:44:53.007+00:00
Artimes 346 Reputation points
1 answer

SCCM Orchestrator & powershell oddity

I am trying to execute a powershell script in Orchestrator. It runs just fine in the Runbook tester but fails to execute properly when running at the runbook servers. $timestamp = (get-date).AddDays(-1).tostring("MMddyyyyHHmm") $file =…

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
asked 2021-08-16T21:38:37.363+00:00
Damian Yates 0 Reputation points
answered 2021-08-18T07:44:54.19+00:00
XinGuo-MSFT 22,231 Reputation points
2 answers

Orchestrator Runbooks

Hi Team, I have created some Runbooks in the test environment. Few of them consumes other APIs by sending the Incident details from SCSM. Few of them would be consumed by other third party application. I have few questions related to these Runbooks.…

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
asked 2021-08-10T07:29:41.027+00:00
jansi rani krishnan 601 Reputation points
commented 2021-08-17T16:30:54.893+00:00
Andreas Baumgarten 124K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Monitor object Activity in Runbook

Hi Team, I created a Runbook with "Monitor Object" Activity as below, which is supposed to be trigger whenever there is a new incident gets created in SCSM or an update happen to an existing incident in the SCSM. Actually it is…

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
asked 2021-08-10T09:50:43.41+00:00
jansi rani krishnan 601 Reputation points
accepted 2021-08-14T10:37:35.067+00:00
jansi rani krishnan 601 Reputation points
3 answers

What Automation Tools Are Out There

Hi, I am looking to automate a lot of my processes and I was wondering what should I start using to accomplish this? We used to use SCOH but it appears that MS are not adding much functionality to it anymore. I want to be able to run PS Scripts…

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
Azure Automation
Azure Automation
An Azure service that is used to automate, configure, and install updates across hybrid environments.
1,370 questions
Windows for business | Windows Server | User experience | Other
asked 2021-08-05T13:15:44.34+00:00
IT-User9733 71 Reputation points
answered 2021-08-09T01:53:08.08+00:00
Stan 1 Reputation point
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Runbook fails to run at scheduled time

Hello, just built a new Orchestrator 2019 server and migrated the Runbooks from the previous 2012 Orchestrator. Everything working well except for the Runbooks that are scheduled to run at a scheduled time. After checking them in and running them they…

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
asked 2021-08-02T21:05:35.893+00:00
LongLastingFlavor 226 Reputation points
answered 2021-08-05T20:12:55.683+00:00
LongLastingFlavor 226 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Microsoft SCORCH - Moving Runbooks from test to prod

Hi Team, I have few runbooks created in Microsoft SCORCH in test environment. I would like to move them to prod in a near future after thorough testing. I have few queries related to the Runbooks as listed below. How to move them to prod…

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
asked 2021-08-03T18:34:22.607+00:00
jansi rani krishnan 601 Reputation points
accepted 2021-08-05T16:58:25.057+00:00
jansi rani krishnan 601 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

upgrade Opalis 4 to Orchestator 2019.

Greetings, before we get Orchestator 2019 and migrate jobs from Opalis 4 , we would like to have some concepts about the migration, may I ask your help? 1) is it possible? (I have 1000+ jobs). 2) If possible, how to automate the migration to get less…

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
asked 2021-07-20T02:14:04.92+00:00
AugustTam-2543 21 Reputation points
commented 2021-08-02T02:55:17.993+00:00
AugustTam-2543 21 Reputation points
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System Center Orchestrator (SCORCH) Web Service - Need to authenticate in a curl command and getting 401

Hello! I'm trying to use the /Orchestrator2012/Orchestrator.svc http request in a curl command. The username being passed is the account on the Runbook service. Here are the command and results: curl -k -v -H "Accept:application/json" -u…

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
asked 2021-07-19T15:42:10.79+00:00
Emme Raba 1 Reputation point
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

The Windows Team are telling me I need a Server Admin or Domain Admin service account to trigger Workflows from ServiceNow via the REST/API. Is this true?

I don't know SCORCH. I am discussing push versus pull with the Windows Team in terms of triggering SCORCH Workflows from ServiceNow (SN). I am an SN Solution Designer. The SCORCH Team want to poll the SN Incident Table every 3 minutes in order to…

System Center Orchestrator
System Center Orchestrator
A family of System Center products that provide an automation platform for orchestrating and integrating both Microsoft and non-Microsoft IT tools.
267 questions
asked 2021-07-15T23:41:50.743+00:00
Doug Connell 21 Reputation points
answered 2021-07-18T23:41:26.15+00:00
Doug Connell 21 Reputation points