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How many instances of this activity do we have? And where are they?

July 2, 2014July 2, 2014Anders Bengtsson 0
How many instances of this activity do we have? And where are they?

From time to time there is a need to list all instances of a specific activity type in Orchestrator. For example it is not recommended […]

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Add a runboook activity from a runbook

June 21, 2014Anders Bengtsson 10
Add a runboook activity from a runbook

Earlier this week I needed to add a runbook activity to a Service Request depending on the result from a review activity. I have written […]

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Runbook PID

May 28, 2014May 28, 2014Anders Bengtsson 3
Runbook PID

Yesterday I was investigating runbooks consuming much memory. We had a number of runbooks running Powershell scripts and we could see that the Runbook server […]

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How-to handle monitoring activities in SMA

March 23, 2014March 27, 2014Anders Bengtsson 0
How-to handle monitoring activities in SMA

In Orchestrator we often use a monitoring activity in the beginning of a runbook, for example monitor Service Manager for new incidents. In SMA we […]

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Building a SMA activity for Service Manager

February 26, 2014February 26, 2014Anders Bengtsson 4
Building a SMA activity for Service Manager

Service Manager and Orchestrator are well connected with a connector. It is easy to use Orchestrator runbooks as activities in for example change requests and […]

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Automate failover in SMA with Operations Manager

January 26, 2014January 26, 2014Anders Bengtsson 0
Automate failover in SMA with Operations Manager

In this post I talked about hos failover in SMA works. As you could read in that post there is a manual step to transfer […]

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State tracking and failover in SMA

January 25, 2014January 26, 2014Anders Bengtsson 0
State tracking and failover in SMA

As you might know a runbook restarts at the first activity when it fails over to secondary runbook server in Orchestrator. The failover mechanism is […]

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Copy or rename a SMA runbook

January 10, 2014January 10, 2014Anders Bengtsson 1
Copy or rename a SMA runbook

You may have notice that in the Windows Azure portal there is no way to copy or rename a SMA runbook. But it is of […]

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Logging in Service Management Automation (SMA)

January 9, 2014January 9, 2014Anders Bengtsson 2
Logging in Service Management Automation (SMA)

In Service Management Automation (SMA) there are a couple of different ways to write to a log. In this blog post I will show you […]

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Pass information between Orchestrator runbook and SMA runbook

January 6, 2014January 6, 2014Anders Bengtsson 0
Pass information between Orchestrator runbook and SMA runbook

Difficult to come up with a good blog post title, as Service Management Automation (SMA) is part of Orchestrator 2012 R2, so in some way […]

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Welcome to contoso.se! My name is Anders Bengtsson and this is my blog about Azure infrastructure and system management. I am a senior engineer in the FastTrack for Azure team, part of Azure Engineering, at Microsoft.  Contoso.se has two main purposes, first as a platform to share information with the community and the second as a notebook for myself.

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