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Fixing SCOM's blind spots

Since its origins as MOM 2000, SCOM has been widely regarded for being awesome at two things: firstly, being the hands-down best solution for monitoring Windows Server environments (it is Microsoft’s monitoring tool, after all); and secondly, being an extensible monitoring platform that can act as a single pane of glass across your data center environment.

NiCE Active 365 Management Pack 4.0 released

Microsoft 365 services help companies worldwide improve business and revenue by providing best in class digital workspace experience. The NiCE Active 365 Management Pack complements this by advanced M365 monitoring such as full Teams Call analysis integrated into Microsoft SCOM. Advanced monitoring and analytics help you reveal unwanted micro-events influencing the health and performance of the system and its users.

System Center 2022 Release

Microsoft announced the release of System Center 2022 on 1st April. The updated Microsoft System Center Orchestrator product information can be found here. The release brings significant improvements to the System Center suite, including an important update to Orchestrator, which is now a 64-bit application. This new functionality enables Orchestrator to work seamlessly with 64-bit PowerShell within code activities, a revision that has been sort-after by the user base.

How to upgrade to SCOM 2022 step-by-step

The long awaited SCOM 2022 is here! If you’d like to know what improvements to expect, check out our blog on SCOM 2022 key highlights. If you’re as excited as we are and would like to proceed with your upgrade, keep reading, this is the detailed step-by-step guide you are looking for. We will take you through the whole process, covering: Stick with us, and by the end of this blog you’ll have successfully upgraded to SCOM 2022!

100% office-based to remote-first: SquaredUp's journey

Back when everyone was talking about the ‘new normal’ and what the future of work would look like post-pandemic, SquaredUp was having a rethink too. SquaredUp has always been a 100%, office-based company with a heart for bringing people together. Richard Benwell, CEO, and the executive team had created a company that is truly fun, collaborative, and integrated, largely based on their drive to keep people connected and build an incredible community – in the office.

NiCE VMware Management Pack 5.5 Release | Cross-Datacenter HA Monitoring

Unlock business benefits by monitoring your VMware‘s High Availability infrastructure. Secure, protect, and manage your VMware environment and digital workspaces based on advanced analytics. The NiCE VMware Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager provides a complete and easy-to-set-up VMware monitoring suite. Auto-Discovery, out-of-the-box metrics, graphs, reports, and enriched alert content help you spot and solve issues before they affect the system.

Troubleshooting SCOM 2022 Teams Integration

When we were setting SCOM 2022 Teams integration in our environment these are some of the issues and fixes we discovered. For the full setup guide for SCOM 2022, or if you are looking for integrations for older versions of SCOM (2012 R2+) or more functionality, such as bi-directional sync, check out our blog on ‘How does SCOM 2022’s native Microsoft Teams Integration Work?’

SCOM 2022 - New Delegated Admin Role Customisation Function

Possibly the most anticipated feature of SCOM 2022 is Delegated Administrators! It’s not the shiniest of features but it has long been a pain point of SCOM admins, which have only ever been able to use three pre-defined roles to grant to users (plus read only). In SCOM 2022 you now have the ability to create Delegated Administrators, which overcomes some of the pain points previously felt with rigid roles and permissions.

Advanced Oracle Monitoring on Microsoft SCOM within Minutes

Monitor your Oracle databases, instances, tablespaces, pluggable databases, processes, system global area (SGA), clusters, automatic storage management (ASM), listeners, disk groups, and more within minutes. Discover Oracle objects automatically and track the overall health of your Oracle environment easily. Spot and act on Oracle latency issues as they appear. Generate detailed Oracle performance reports with a mouse-click. Use build-in Oracle tasks to speed up operations.