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Azure Automation Costs Explained

In today's digital landscape, automation plays a crucial role in streamlining operations and improving efficiency within IT. One popular automation solution is Azure Automation, offered by Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. But how much does Azure Automation cost? Is an Azure Automation Account free? In this blog post, we will delve into the cost structure of Azure Automation, explore where the costs lie and put the costs of Azure Automation into context.  Is Azure Automation Free? Azure...

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Microsoft Announce Azure Automation Progress & Future Developments

On the 2nd of May 2023, Jaspreet Kaur of the Azure Automation Product Group released this blog, providing an update on updates to Azure Automation in 2022 and what is in the pipeline for 2023. In the blog, Jaspreet detailed the major changes that Microsoft have made to the core of Azure Automation to improve the reliability and scalability of the underlying infrastructure. There has been an emphasis on the move away from the Drawbridge (SQLPAL) sandboxing technology for job execution isolation...

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Why on-premise automation remains attractive

Over the last five years, there has been a constant push to move infrastructure to the Cloud, which accelerated further during the pandemic. It is becoming clear that for a proportion of organisations, the Cloud is not always the best route and that an on-premise (also known as on-prem, on-premises) or a hybrid model is most beneficial. On-premise relates to where IT infrastructure is located; this can be physically in a building, usually in a server room. This blog looks at why organisations...

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What’s new in System Center Orchestrator 2022?

With System Center Orchestrator 2022, Orchestrator has undergone the largest update since Microsoft bought it in 2010. This has massively extended its longevity for on-premise IT teams across the globe, this release comes with extended support until 2032.  In this blog, we'll explore what’s new in System Center Orchestrator 2022; what this means for existing PowerShell scripts; presently deployed integration packs; and finally, which integration packs are being converted to Orchestrator 2022...

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ServiceNow Integration with Microsoft System Center 2022 

For the last ten years, one of the most popular Integrations in the market has been for organisations that have deployed Microsoft System Center to manage their infrastructure, who also use ServiceNow as their corporate Service Desk.  The need to integrate Microsoft System Center was originally driven by the need to automate the generation of ServiceNow tickets from events in System Center Operations Manager.   This use case expanded in recent years to add automated diagnosis, routing of...

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System Center Orchestrator Best Practices

System Center Orchestrator Best Practices GuideSystem Center Orchestrator Best Practices Updated to include System Center Orchestrator 2022Download the guide now Introduction This white paper will assist anyone tasked with taking the System Center suite of solutions and using Orchestrator runbooks to integrate better, automate or orchestrate IT systems and processes to support business practices and ultimately achieve cost savings by driving greater efficiencies across the organization. The...

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