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By now, you may have read Tiander Turpijn’s blog series on how Service Management Automation (SMA) Runbooks can call Orchestrator Runbooks (and vice versa). If not, I highly encourage you to do so, as the scripts used in this blog post build on the concepts...

Hello readers! This is Part 2 of the “Calling an Orchestrator Runbook from SMA” blog post. In the previous blog post I talked about how you can call - or actually invoke - an Orchestrator Runbook from within Service Management Automation (SMA). In this...

I recently took on a special project to create example gallery items for Windows Azure Pack. I was given a few goals to work with: Think about the example service templates our team has released, especially Exchange, Lync, and SharePoint, and use...

Readers of BCB, I am happy to announce the first round of Building Clouds Blog Windows Azure Pack VMRole Gallery Items! Table of Contents Building Clouds Blog           Windows Azure Pack VMRole Gallery...

This post is part of a series for the Building Clouds Blog Gallery Items for Collaboration Workloads . For more information see the following Table of Contents post - http://aka.ms/bcbgicw . Overview The Exchange Server 2013 gallery resource enables...

This post is part of a series for the Building Clouds Blog Gallery Items for Collaboration Workloads . For more information see the following Table of Contents post - http://aka.ms/bcbgicw . Overview The SharePoint Server 2013 gallery resource enables...

This post is part of a series for the Building Clouds Blog Gallery Items for Collaboration Workloads . For more information see the following Table of Contents post - http://aka.ms/bcbgicw . Overview The Lync Server 2013 gallery resource enables...

This post is part of a series for the Building Clouds Blog Gallery Items for Collaboration Workloads .  For more information see the following Table of Contents post - http://aka.ms/bcbgicw . Overview This project is meant as a resource for someone...

Recently we are seeing many customers (including service providers) building external systems (specifically Billing) to integrate with Windows Azure Pack (WAP) for collecting usage and notification data. The Usage and Notification data in WAP is collected...

This is post #5 out of 5 in the “ Orchestrator – Back to Basics – Use Cases ” series, full series posts are located here: #1 : Alert Remediation , where automation is used to monitor specific situations, and react automatically. This is also the introduction...

This is post #4 out of 5 in the “ Orchestrator – Back to Basics – Use Cases ” series, full series posts are located here: #1 : Alert Remediation , where automation is used to monitor specific situations, and react automatically...

This is post #3 out of 5 in the “ Orchestrator – Back to Basics – Use Cases ” series, full series posts are located here: #1 : Alert Remediation , where automation is used to monitor specific situations, and react automatically...

This is post #2 out of 5 in the “ Orchestrator – Back to Basics – Use Cases ” series, full series posts are located here: #1 : Alert Remediation , where automation is used to monitor specific situations, and react automatically...

Following up from the Installing and configuring Windows Azure Pack (WAP) series we are now at the point where we want to reconfigure server names and ports as well as assigning trusted certificates to my WAP Portals. Blog post in the series are: Installing...

My Name is Thomas Roettinger and I am a Program Manager in the Windows Server System Center Customer Architecture & Technology Team working in the fabric management space together with various teams. In this cycle of customer validation I got asked...

After numerous requests from people we have talked to, we are now doing a blog post on how to install Windows Azure Pack and configuring the basic settings for IaaS and Databases Resource Providers. In the following series of blog posts Shri from the...

Hello again, this is Greg Blaum. I am a Program Manager on the Windows Server and System Center CAT team. This is part 1 in a 4 part series on utilizing Windows PowerShell to automate key functionality in Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)...

Hi Again One thing I get asked quite often; is it possible to add an already running VM to a subscription in Windows Azure Pack (WAP), so it shows up in the WAP Tenant portal? Scenario: The blog post will have two scenarios: Scenario1: "A tenant...

Hello once again! Here we are at the end of this blog series: Part 4 of the Automating Hybrid Clouds with Windows Azure and PowerShell blog series - Public Cloud Environment Deprovisioning PowerShell Examples. I do think you will be surprised to see...

Hello Readers Next topic on our Windows Azure Pack (WAP) Troubleshooting tour is "Plans and Subscriptions". Briefly Plan, Subscriptions and Resource Providers can be described in the following way: Tenant: One or more individuals consuming services...

Hello Readers and Viewers! Welcome to the last part (3 of 3) of this blog series on Software Defined Networking. In the previous post we have examined how multi-tenant S2S VPN and NAT provide different modes of connectivity to VMs of different tenants...

Recently we see many customers (including service providers) are looking for samples or best practice guidance on integrating either the existing portal or develop a complete new portal to integrate with Windows Azure Pack (WAP) API to deliver the WAP...

Hello Readers   Following up from the previous blog post ( Troubleshooting Windows Azure Pack and Gallery Items (Part 1) ) it's now time to talk about potential challenges you might run into when configuring and deploying Gallery Items (VM Roles...

Introduction The Windows Web Application Gallery (WAG) provides instant access to the most popular free web applications available today. With just a few clicks you can install any of these applications and be up and running within minutes. This is integrated...

  If you have been reading about and testing the new features from System Center 2012 R2, you’ve probably heard about Service Management Automation (SMA) , a new automation engine based on PowerShell Workflows and shipping as part of System Center...