I wanted to create ASP.NET webpage with three simple fields name, surname and mobile and I wanted Orchestrator behind to create Exchange 2010 mailbox on my Exchange server…
My friends helped me out by giving me suggestions and help – I want to share this knowledge with you now…

What we have:
Exchange 2010 server on one server
SC 2012 – Orchestrator – on different server – with Exchange 2010 console instaled + SP2 applied

My friend Saso created a ps1 script that creates user in Exchange 2010 (with address book policy, active sync policy…) that I use on Exchange 2010 server by inserting a line of comma separated values name,surname,password.

I wanted this script to be run from Orchestrator server – so first thing you need to do if you want to run PS script against Exchange 2010 server you need to install Exchange 2010 console on Orchestartor! Hey! You need to install also SP2 if you want full functionality of Exchange Powershell Snapin!

You can not run Exchange Snapin and powershell scripts directly – Jure has more info how you can do it in Orchestrator

When this thing worked (I forgot SP2 for Exchange 2010 on Orchestrator and I lost 2 hours to figure it out! 🙂 ) I have started to write code for my website where I want to trigger my runbook with parameters…

I have fist set input parameters in my Runbook…

After that I have folowed this article to create costum class file (search for part Creating the custom interface).

So I created scorch.sc (name it however you want in a previous step) and imported it in my Visual Studio evironment…

You need to place it:

You should comment this line to get it work in your project…

and finaly you can go to your project and start coding…

1. Put the URL of your Orch web service
2. Enter credentials
3. Define the name of your runbook
4. runbookpars [X] – X is ID of the input parameter in rubook

and finaly you should be able to run your script…

I find System center Orchestator 2012 as fantastic product that can realy help you automate your IT processes…

So guys let’s automate! 🙂

Help:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh921685.aspx – thanks to Damien
http://blogs.technet.com/b/neilp/archive/2012/02/14/sql-cluster-with-custom-front-end.aspx
http://www.purgar.net/category/orchestrator/ – thanks to Jure
voodoo C# help – thanks to Miha