Use Orchestration activities in a
Workflow to integrate with third-party
systems.
Several Orchestration activities have been rewritten as Application scope activities using the activity designer and grouped into activity packs. Other non-scoped activities are deprecated and may or may not
appear in the Workflow Editor. However, all deprecated activities still function in existing
workflows that use them.
Global activities
These activities run in the global scope only. Any activities you create in the global
scope are organized in the Global category in the
Packs and
Custom tabs in the Workflow Editor.
| Activity |
Description |
| Test
Server Alive |
Runs a command (including shell scripts) on a Linux or UNIX computer via SSH to
validate whether the target system is alive. |
Active Directory (AD) activities
All AD Orchestration activities were rewritten in the Geneva release as scoped activities and
are available in the Active Directory activity pack. All previous version AD activities that
were built on activity definitions are deprecated and are unavailable for use in new
workflows.
Azure AD
All these activities are scoped and part of the Azure AD activity pack. They do not have
legacy versions.
| Activity |
Description |
| Add
User to Group |
Adds a user to an existing security group in Azure Active Directory. |
| Assign User License |
Assigns an extra Office 365 software license to the named user. |
| Create User |
Creates a user for the Azure Active Directory tenant. |
| Delete User |
Deletes the named user's account from the Azure Active Directory
tenant. |
| Get User Info |
Returns the named user's information from the Azure Active Directory. |
| Remove User from Group |
Removes an existing user from a security group in Azure Active
Directory. |
| Remove User License |
Revokes the specified Office 365 software license for the named user. |
| Reset User Password |
Changes the named user's Azure Active Directory password. |
F5 Network Management activities
All these activities are scoped and part of the F5 Network Management activity pack. They
do not have legacy versions.
Infoblox activities
All these activities are scoped and part of the Infoblox DDI activity pack. They do not
have legacy versions.
Microsoft Exchange activities
All Exchange Orchestration activities were rewritten in the Geneva release as scoped activities and
are available in the Exchange activity pack. All previous version Exchange activities that
were built on activity definitions are deprecated and are unavailable for use in new
workflows.
| Activity |
Description |
| Create Address List |
Creates an address list that acts as an alias for emailing all users in the
group. This alias cannot be used to manage user permissions. |
| Delete Address List |
Removes an existing address list from an Exchange server. |
| Get Address List |
Retrieves all attributes from the specified Exchange address list. |
| Move Address List |
Moves an Exchange address list to another location in the address
hierarchy. |
| Set Address List |
Modifies an Exchange address list. |
| Update Address List |
Adds or removes users from the specified address list and immediately applies
any cached address list changes to the server. |
| Create Mailbox |
If a user does not exist, creates a new Active Directory user and associated
Exchange mailbox. |
| Delete Mailbox |
Deletes the Exchange mailbox of an Active Directory user. |
| Disable Mailbox |
Disables the mailbox associated with a specified Active Directory
account. |
| Enable Mailbox |
Creates a mailbox for an existing Active Directory user. |
| Get Mailbox |
Gets the mailbox for the specified user or all mailboxes on an Exchange
server. |
| Set Mailbox |
Modifies the settings of an existing Exchange mailbox. |
PowerShell activities
These PowerShell activities were rewritten as scoped activities and are available in the
PowerShell activity pack. All previous version PowerShell activities that were built on
activity definitions are deprecated and are unavailable for use in new workflows.
Probe activities
These probe activities were rewritten as scoped activities and are available in the Probe
activity pack. All previous versions of these activities that were built on activity
definitions are deprecated and are unavailable for use in new workflows.
| Activity |
Description |
| Resolve
DNS Name |
Resolves an IP address or a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) into one or
more IP addresses. |
| SNMP
Query |
Queries an SNMP device. |
SCCM activities
All these activities are scoped and part of the SCCM activity pack. They do not have legacy
versions.
| Activity |
Description |
| Add
to Device Collection |
Adds a device to a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
device collection. |
| Add to User Collection |
Adds a user to a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) user
collection. |
| Get
Applications |
Returns a list of all the applications available on a Microsoft System Center
Configuration Manager (SCCM) server. |
| Get
Deployments |
Returns the list of deployments performed by Orchestration using a Microsoft
System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) server. |
| Get
Device Collections |
Returns the list of available device collections on a Microsoft System Center
Configuration Manager (SCCM) host. |
| Get User Collections |
Returns the list of available user collections on a Microsoft System Center
Configuration Manager (SCCM) host. |
| Remove from Device Collection |
Removes a device from a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
device collection. |
| Remove from User Collection |
Removes a user from a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
user collection. |
SSH activities
These SSH activities were rewritten as scoped activities and are available in the SSH
activity pack. The SSH activities not converted to scoped activities were moved to the
Orchestration - Deprecated category, but are still available for all workflows.
| Activity |
Description |
| File Copy |
Copies a file on a Linux or Unix computer, via SSH. |
| File Read |
Reads a file on a Linux or Unix computer, via SSH. |
| File
Write |
Writes a file on a Linux or UNIX
computer. |
| File Replace String |
Finds and replaces a string in a file on a Linux or UNIX computer. |
|
|
| Files Compare |
Compares two files on a Linux or Unix computer, via SSH. |
| Reset Linux User Password |
Resets the password for a given user on a Linux computer. |
| Secure Copy |
Copies a file from one host to another, without storing the copied file on
the MID Server. |
SFTP activities
All these activities are scoped and part of the SFTP File Transfer activity pack. They do
not have legacy versions.
| Activity |
Description |
| Copy File |
Copies a file from an SFTP server (source host) to another SFTP server
(target host). |
| Create Directory |
Creates a directory on an SFTP server. |
| Get File List |
Returns a list of files from a given directory and its subdirectories on an
SFTP server (source host). |
| Remove File or Directory |
Removes a file or a directory on an SFTP server, including subdirectories,
when configured. |
| Rename File or Directory |
Renames a file or directory to a new name on an SFTP server. |
| Set File Attributes |
Sets common file attributes, such as timestamps, size, permissions, and
UID/GID, for a file or directory on an SFTP server. |
Deprecated activities
These activities have been removed from the Workflow Editor and are not available for new
workflows, but continue to work normally in existing workflows. You can
reactivate the deprecated activity or duplicate the functionality of a deprecated
activity as a scoped activity by recreating it using the
activity designer.
| Activity |
Description |
| Run
Probe |
Launches a MID Server probe on behalf of a document. |
| SOAP
Request |
Executes a SOAP request on a target server. The SOAP Message
activity replaces this activity. |
| Run
Command |
Runs a command (including shell scripts) on a Linux or UNIX computer. |
| Run SCP |
Uses Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) to copy a file from one computer to another,
including the directory in which the file resides. The Secure Copy activity
replaces the Run SCP activity. |
| Run
Powershell |
Executes Windows
PowerShell commands on a MID Server. |