As the first version developed entirely by Microsoft, System Center 2012 Orchestrator has the benefit of the rigorous testing and code standards placed on all Microsoft products. In addition, it has the benefit of several years of experience with customers implementing OIS into their data centers; Microsoft has taken that feedback and fed it into product development. Although the user interfaces for Orchestrator are similar to the previous version, they have received a facelift along the lines of the rest of the System Center components, providing a consistent look and feel across the product.
Microsoft, having identified a requirement to bolster its line of data center management tools with an ITPA solution, acquired Opalis Software in December 2009. The terms of the acquisition included a final release of OIS for Microsoft that removed any unacceptable features, such as the Java-based prerequisite of the OIS Operator Console displayed in Figure 2.4. For legal reasons, Microsoft would not distribute the open source software required for the Operator Console. However, the console itself was still available and supported until Orchestrator was released as part of System Center 2012 in April 2013.
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With the System Center 2012 release, OIS 6.3 was no longer available as a standalone download, but Microsoft provided support of the product for an additional 12 months. The company also honored existing support agreements with customers. 2ff7e9595c
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