By default, each Orchestrator Runbook Server is configured to simultaneously run a maximum of 50 runbooks. This is to control the CPU and Memory load placed on the Orchestrator Runbook Server by executing Runbooks. You can change this number by using the Runbook Server Runbook Throttling tool. In most cases, you can increase the default setting. If Orchestrator has a number of Runbooks with high CPU or Memory resource requirements, you might run fewer Runbooks simultaneously.

Monthly patch deployments of software and security updates can be a costly, time consuming, and unreliable process, leaving companies with huge security and compliance issues. Many tasks are repeated monthly and it is up to the SCCM Administrator to ensure that devices are patched correctly and working. When the Admin is looking after a large estate or multiple customers, the patching process often becomes an unwieldy full-time job fraught with failure gaps.

This white paper will assist anyone who has been tasked with taking the System Center suite of solutions and using Orchestrator Runbooks to better integrate, automate or orchestrate IT systems and processes to support business practices and ultimately achieve cost savings by driving greater efficiencies across the organisation.