SMA Capabilities in Depth: Runbook Input, Output, and Nested Runbooks

With Service Management Automation (SMA), the new capability in Windows Azure Pack and Orchestrator 2012 R2 , creating and running runbooks are core tasks for IT professionals who are automating repetitive and complex tasks and integrating across systems. SMA uses the PowerShell workflow engine to run runbooks, which means that runbooks are created as PowerShell workflows (see the Runbook Concepts article for an introduction). As you create SMA runbooks, you will want to be aware of and follow best...(read more)