I have just release a new tool called Parse Orchestrator Export available on the community codeplex site (https://scorch.codeplex.com/releases/view/104915). There are two files for download, the GUI tool and a general administration .dll it references, you will need both (just put…
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Automating the Export and TFS Check-In of Workflows
For disaster recovery reasons in Orchestrator it is beneficial to have backups of individual Workflows. In order to facilitate this and not increase the amount of manual work that has to be done we have come up with a workflow…
Tagged with: Automated Export, Check-In, Export, Export File, Orchestrator, TFS, Workflow
Posted in General Information, Infrastructure, Workflow
Posted in General Information, Infrastructure, Workflow
Advanced Parallel Processing of Runbook Activities
In a recent blog post Robert Hearn talked about how to enable true parallel processing in Orchestrator by using the Invoke Runbook object with the ‘wait for completion’ checkmark unchecked. There are two challenges that this scenario presents, how do…
Monitoring the Monitor Runbooks
A question came up in the Orchestrator forums today about how to ensure that Monitor type workflows are running in an environment. One way to do this is using Orchestrator itself to ensure that all ‘Monitor’ workflows that are supposed…
Posted in Workflow
Opalis Windows 7 Upgrade Process Presentation
Hey Everyone, It has come to my attention that the presentation I delivered at MMS this year never actually got uploaded to the MMS site! I have modified the presentation to only be my portion (I can’t actually share the…
Tagged with: Example, Opalis, Presentation, Upgrade, Windows 7, Workflow
Posted in General Information, Workflow
Posted in General Information, Workflow
Looping a Policy
So a question came up on the System Center Central forums, can I loop a policy? The answer is yes and there are some good reasons to do this. In order to ‘loop’ a policy it needs to be triggered…
Posted in Workflow
Scheduled Tasks IP Policy Example
Here is a quick example of the type of workflow that the Scheduled Tasks integration pack allows for building. The IP is available at http://opalisscheduledtasks.codeplex.com/ This example policy is a part of a bigger workflow that is used to automate…
Foreach Object from Results
A Question was posed on the Opalis forums that I thought I would take a quick second to answer as it is one that I struggled with myself initially I’m running some SQL query. I get few line results ……
Opalis Policy Failover
Introduction Have you ever wondered how Policy Failover works in Opalis? Let’s take a look. For the purpose of this testing I am going to create a very simple workflow that sleeps for a minute then sends out an email.…
Data Manipulation Functions
This section is pulled directly from the Opalis Help documents. I highly suggest looking through the built-in help documents in Opalis. Data Manipulation Functions Opalis Integration Server enables you to manipulate string data from text files, Published Data items, or…
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