The first and only comprehensive reference and technical guide to Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012,"System Center Orchestrator 2012 Unleashed" joins Sams' market-leading series of books on Microsoft's System Center product suite: books that have achieved go-to status amongst IT implementers and administrators worldwide. This book is authored by an expert team of current and former Microsoft MVPs who wrote the industry's leading guide to Opalis 6.3, Orchestrator 2012's predecessor product. Almost entirely new, this book thoroughly illuminates Orchestrator 2012's massive improvements, demonstrating how to use this product to implement best-practice IT process automation in any environment, including new "private clouds." The authors' end-to-end feature implementation perspective will help readers optimize their deployments by covering all related topics, step-by-step, in each feature area. The authors begin with an overview of Orchestrator 2012's capabilities and goals; then move through architecture, installation, policy basics and design, activities (previously known as objects), integration with the rest of Systems Center, "Dynamic Data Center" solutions, and much more. Throughout, the authors share best practices based on their unsurpassed experience with Orchestrator, Opalis, and real-world IT process automation.