We’re delighted to introduce to you Leon Laude, system consultant and knowledge-sharing enthusiast. For our latest special guest blog, Leon has written a thorough step-by-step guide on how to upgrade to SCOM 2019. Having worked on Microsoft products – such as Windows Server, System Center, Hyper-V, Azure, Active Directory – for over 7 years now, Leon has amassed a stack of tips and tricks, and delights in sharing them with fellow SCOM users on thesystemcenterblog.com.

We told you feature releases would come thick and fast! And although it might seem that 4.1 was only announced last week, it's already time to introduce you to its bigger, better brother...

Today is a very special day for Squared Up and, we hope, for the broader SCOM community. We are incredibly excited to announce the launch of Cookdown, a new brand dedicated to optimising SCOM with platform extensions and integrations.

Squared Up 4.1 just landed. And what better way to start this announcement than the promise of more feature releases?! It’s been seven months since Squared Up 4.0, but the hard work put in by the development team since then has set us up for a bright, feature-rich future. All those juicy performance improvements and platform changes mean, moving forward, you can expect a new feature release from us every two to three months.

Azure lovers, we have good news for you. Our new years resolution in 2019 is to support the local Azure community. We kicked off with our first Azure Meetup in December. And as the numbers below suggest... people had a great time.

Join Matthew Long, Richard Benwell, and a host of other Christmas contributors, as we close the year with 12 Tips and Tricks, a review of 2018, and what we can expect looking forward to 2019. Make sure you check out the links section below, as we've added loads of links to related resources this month. Happy Holidays!