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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...
What is Azure Automation?
As Microsoft Azure continues to be developed and more automation options become available; Azure Automation, Logic Apps, ARM (Azure Resource Manager) and Azure Function Apps to name a few. The question is quickly turning from ‘how do I automate with Azure?’ to ‘what automation type do I use in Azure?’. Across our next few blogs, we will seek to delve into the options available and look to define how they stack up against Azure Automation. Firstly, what is Azure Automation? Azure Automation is...
Beginners Guide To Automation Runbooks
Automation and it’s use of the term Runbooks can be confusing and difficult to understand, especially when first starting out. We’ve put together some frequently asked questions and answers to help beginners get started. What is a runbook? A runbook is a process that executes within an automation tool which performs a set of actions. This can be a simple, single process such as adding a user to an Active Directory group. The runbook takes an input and then performs the tasks required to add...
What is No-Code/Low-Code IT Automation?
Most automation approaches start in the same place; coding. For years, IT professionals have relied on scripts or series of scripts to perform tasks and then link them to provide an automated process. No-code or low-code automation reduces complexity and resource effort, allowing both non-technical and technical users to automate processes through graphical user interfaces (GUI) dragging-and-dropping boxes on to the screen that perform the actions a human would have done in a process. Read...
Azure Automation Best Practices
Azure Automation Best Practices GuideBy Greg CharmanAzure Automation Best PracticesDownload The Guide Now Kelverion have put together this Azure Automation Best Practices Guide to support the creation of automation process in Azure Automation. Our consultants work with Azure Automation every day and have substantial experience with Azure Automation and IT automation built using other tools. It's important to recognize that these are recommendations rather than hard and fast rules. Each...
Press Release: Kelverion releases new Integration Pack for Azure Active Directory due to Microsoft API changes
Published on 15th July 2022 Kelverion have released a new version of our Integration Pack for Microsoft Azure Active Directory. This new release is a complete rewrite of our Integration Pack as Microsoft have depreciated the underlying API Kelverion had been using. This means this release is a breaking update, any Runbooks built against an earlier version of the Integration Pack may cease to operate when you upgrade to this new version. With the deprecation of the Microsoft Azure Active...