14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft revealed at the end of 2009 that System Center would evolve by swallowing Opalis solutions. Now, Adam Hall, senior Technical Product Manager announced that as Opalis is integrated into System Center 2012, it will become the Orchestrator component.
IT administrators used to leveraging Opalis in conjunction with System Center will be able to take advantage of System Center Orchestrator 2012.
The promise from Microsoft is that System Center Orchestrator 2012 will be wrapped up and offered to customers worldwide by the end of 2011. However, a specific availability deadline was yet to be provided at the time of this article.
Hall shared a few details about System Center Orchestrator 2012 for IT pros, operators, developers, and IT business managers.
“- We are working very hard to ensure that your existing investments in Opalis are maintained. A new PowerShell provider to allow Orchestrator to be integrated into scripts and provide a mechanism for remote execution of runbooks.
- A new Silverlight based dynamic web console to provide an easy way to start, monitor and investigate runbooks.
- A new rich OData based web service that exposes Orchestrator functionality and information in a standards based way.
- A new mechanism for connecting your existing reporting investments to Orchestrator to extract, report and analyze what is happening inside Orchestrator.”
Microsoft is working on offering early adopters the chance to take System Center Orchestrator 2012 out for a spin before it’s actually released.
In this regard, it appears that a Beta development milestone of System Center Orchestrator 2012 will be offered for testing in the coming months.
“We are also completing a number of ‘housekeeping’ functions: a new Installer experience; an Orchestrator Management Pack for Operations Manager; globalization of the Orchestrator release (Localization will follow in a future release); updated versions of the Integration Packs, both for System Center as well as a number of the 3rd Party IP’s,” Hall added.