Step by step guide installation of System Center Orchestrator 2012

Hi guys,

Microsoft announced yesterday the public beta download of the new version of Opalis, System Center Orchestrator 2012.

I downloaded it today and created a step by step guide for installing this beta. You can download the document here or check the steps down below.

Introduction

Before you start installing SCOrch 2012 please to read the Pre-requisites.

After reading the pre-requisites also run through the Release Notes.

These articles have very useful information like “Even if you are in a lab environment, don’t try to install System Center Orchestrator 2012 Beta on a Domain Controller”. It will not pass the requirement check.

If you are familiar with Opalis 6.3 you’ll see that Microsoft did an awesome work on the installation process.

My hard- & software:

I’ve installed this Beta on a virtual machine (in Hyper-V) with the following specs:

Windows 2008 R2 Server SP1
SQL 2008 R2
IIS
.Net Framework 4
Silverlight
1 VCPU 2,4 GHz Xeon
1024 MB Memory
60 GB harddisk

Step-by-Step installation:

Pre-Installation configuration:

Before you can install System Center Orchestrator 2012 you need to prepare some things.

Here are the steps you need to take to configure everything so that the installation runs smoothly.

Configure a Service Account user
Install and configure SQL 2008 R2 Database
Management group

Service Account

Step 1. Go to your Active Directory console, create a new account, and add it in the Local Administrator Group of the Orchestrator server.

Step 2. You also have to authorize this account to “Log on as a service”. Enable this right in Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy -> Local Policies -> User Rights Assignment.

Step 3. Open “Log on as a service” policy and enter the service account that you just created.

Database configuration

Step 1. Database connection, Go to your SQL server, open the management studio, and create manually the Orchestrator database.

Step 2. Add your service account as Credentials for the SQL server.

Step 3. Grant this account as db_owner of the Orchestrator DB.

Management group

Step 1. Within Orchestrator you need to use a group (local group or Active Group) for authorizing access to the Run Book Designer. Go to your Active Directory console, create a new security group, add your user account and the service account created above as group member.

Install Orchestrator:

Step 1. Download the System Center Orchestrator 2012 Beta file at the Microsoft Download Center.
Step 2. Extract the content of the file.
Step 3. Run the setupsco.exe file.

Step 4. If you want to install all the features (Runbook Designer, Console/Web Service, Runbook server) on the same server, select Install Orchestrator. The installer also gives the possibility to install each features independently.