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Release Webinar: SquaredUp 4.5

Join Chief Product Officer John Shaw for an in-depth tour of SquaredUp version 4.5. This release is jam packed with awesome product enhancements including our most requested SCOM feature to date: Dark Theme! John will showcase new features that span both the SCOM & Azure versions, including new log visualisations, and the ability to publish and share perspectives. The latest Azure specific updates include some cool new cost tile visualisations, alert donut and drilldown. As always, we've included lots of quality improvements too!

SQL Server Agnostic Tuning Pack for Easy Tune Launched

Remember that old commercial from the eighties of the actor Chris Robinson saying “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV”? (Yes, I know it’s an old commercial, but the catchphrase has definitely outshone the original product placement.) Well, I would like to start this blog post by changing things up and saying that “I’m not a Database Administrator, but I like to play one on TV!” Or, um, well, at least I like to pretend to be a DBA. Sometimes.

Debugging SCOM Workflows using PowerShell

During our Management Pack Development training sessions, our senior developer Michel Kamp talked about the topic how to debug SCOM workflows using PowerShell. The Knowledge Base article listed below explains in-depth how you can debug your own workflows in SCOM using, Eventlog, WFAnalyzer, Trace by PowerShell and TraceConfig ETW Tracer. So a big thanks to Michel for sharing his knowledge and expertise.

How GripMatix created the topology overview in their SquaredUp Dashboard Pack

We're delighted to welcome Merijn Overgaauw, Service Monitoring and Automation Consultant at GripMatix, back for another guest blog. This time, he explains the creative process behind the useful topology overview of GripMatix's latest SquaredUp Dashboard Pack. Fascinating stuff!

From Zero to Hero: My Azure Monitor Learning Path

For those who don't know me, I'm a former SCOM admin, and I blog regularly about monitoring and co-organise Experts Live India each year. As one of SquaredUp's tech evangelists, I've recently taken on the task of figuring out Azure Monitor and documenting my journey so that others can find my — sometimes torturous — journey less taxing. This write-up is for you, hope you enjoy!

Choose the correct installation path for SCOM: In-place upgrade or side-by-side installation

The day has finally come and it's time to upgrade your Operations Manager deployment. You ask yourself, should I upgrade my existing installation or should I start from scratch and build a new environment, side-by-side? This is a common question asked by organizations that we work with. To answer this question, we usually begin by asking some simple questions: To aid your decision-making process, we have listed some of the pros and cons.