Data Manipulation

Updated: May 13, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator, System Center 2012 - Orchestrator, System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator

With System Center 2012 - Orchestrator, you can manipulate string data from text files, returned data, or other sources, and convert it into a usable form. You can also perform simple arithmetic operations, such as calculating sums and differences, and performing division and multiplication operations. For example, you can extract text from a text file by using a Text File Management activity, trim leading and trailing spaces from the text, and then retrieve specific parts of the text that you can pass to other activities as returned data items.

• Computer Groups

• Counters

• Functions

• Regular Expressions

• Schedules

• Variables

• TechNet Library main page for Orchestrator

• Using Runbooks in System Center 2012 - Orchestrator

• Building a Runbook

• Published Data