Creating a child Runbook
Creating a child Runbook is one of the most essential tasks in SCO. Technically, there is no difference between normal Runbooks and a child Runbook.
A child Runbook is a Runbook with initialized data and often return data and is mostly used for tasks that are needed by multiple Runbooks.
For example, a Runbook, which is adding a user in the AD Group can be a child Runbook, as this task is often used by different Runbooks.
So, it makes sense to build one Runbook, such as a module PowerShell programming, with all the features you need, instead of building the task in each Runbook separately.
See this chart for a better understanding of how a child Runbooks works:
Getting ready
In our example, we will build a short user on-boarding with a Child Runbook to add the user in an Active Directory group. This child Runbook will be used multiple time, as our user needs to be in more than one group in our on-boarding process.
Perform the following steps in the Runbook Designer to prepare...
