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SCOM 2022 has been recently made GA and I, coming from a SCOM background, was pretty interested in checking out the latest SCOM product. Luckily, Azure Stack HCI management packs were recently released too, so it was as if the stars had lined up for me to drop everything else and check out this new management pack with SCOM 2022. And that is exactly what I did!

It is going to excite your fellow Citrix engineers for sure!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.