Updated: July 16, 2020 (January 9, 2017)
Analyst ReportOrchestrator 2016 Delivers New PowerShell Capabilities
System Center 2016 Orchestrator reached general availability in Oct. 2016 along with other System Center 2016 products. It delivers improvements to the PowerShell capabilities of Service Management Automation, allowing users to leverage existing PowerShell scripting knowledge and develop automation processes faster. The improvements also signal that future Microsoft automation emphasis will be on PowerShell capability rather than custom Orchestrator workflows.
Automating IT Services
Orchestrator, part of the System Center suite of systems management tools, is IT automation software that coordinates IT processes and workflows. Service Management Automation (SMA) is delivered with Orchestrator but uses different technology to achieve similar goals.
Both Orchestrator and SMA can be used to create and execute custom workflows, or runbooks, for common processes such as adding a PC to a collection of managed devices; handling incident response; or starting, stopping, and moving virtual machines (VMs).
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