System Center Orchestrator should be the first Product to upgrade to 2016, so we also will start with SCO.
The Upgrade is straight forward and an easy one, but we have some pre-checks to make sure everything runs smooth.
First we will make a small Health Check to make sure SCO is doing fine, afterwards we proceed with our Backups followed by uninstall 2012 R2 and Installing 2016.
Lets go.
SCO Health Check
We normally use the “Orchestrator Health Checker” to get a quick overview of our environment. You an download the small Tool here: http://scorch.codeplex.com/releases/view/99063
So take a look at your running and queued Runbooks and make sure nothing important is sill running or not to many Runbooks are in Queue.
After we have made sure that our SCO is healthy, we can take the next step.