The Azure SQL Managed Instance is one of Microsoft’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings for SQL. It adds all the features you would expect of a PaaS platform such as automated patching, backups and streamlined high availability whilst closely aligning the technology to on-premises or IaaS workloads to reduce the barrier to entry. The product features near 100% compatibility with the latest Enterprise Edition of SQL Server and the automated Azure Data Migration service.

Following our Identification and Reconciliation post in this series, I wanted to briefly introduce the Identification Rule, a key part of the IRE system. We’ll continue to dig into IRE with this series, check back for more soon. Now that you’ve decided to funnel all of your Configuration Items (CIs) into ServiceNow via IRE, we need to sort out what each item is, and how it should be marked as unique. Identifications Rules perform this step with two distinct parts.

Aakash Basavaraj, Program Manager in the SCOM Team at Microsoft, showcased their latest plans at SCOMathon 2020. So, what can we expect to see on SCOM’s roadmap in 2020? There will be some standard bug fixes for SCOM 2016 to keep this version ticking over, but for all of you planning to upgrade, the great news is the next rollup of SCOM 2019 is where the SCOM Product Team are focussing their efforts.

Before we get into it, let’s get one thing straight, by SCOMaaS, I am in no way referring to Azure Monitor here. I truly mean that the SCOM Management Groups themselves would be hosted and managed by Microsoft SaaS style! This is the biggest announcement from the SCOM Product Team at SCOMathon 2020, for this single reason – it sets the direction on the future of SCOM as a product and clearly positions it along side Azure Monitor.

RE-POST: This blog is bought to you by Lydia Shu – Content Writer @Squaredup To our SCOM Community – thank you for making the first worldwide virtual SCOM event such a huge success! As co-hosts of SCOMathon 2020 that took place last week, we are happy to have provided a platform for the SCOM community to get together, learn and connect.

Looking to get some REST endpoints monitors quickly? Follow the below steps to setup a could REST monitors in about 15 minutes (weather in this demo).