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SCOM Notifications: Kill your legacy email subscriptions in favor of Microsoft Teams

Feb 10, 2022 By OpsLogix In OpsLogix

Microsoft Teams is a product that already before the pandemic started to gain popularity and, during, helped employees communicate and collaborate in their new remote offices. There are precursors to Teams - in Microsoft's portfolio, Skype for Business was retired last year, and after that, the increase of Teams users have been skyrocketing. Why Teams differ from some of the other communication alternatives is the many functions of teams that allow for much more than a chat, call, or virtual meeting.

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OpsLogix: DevOps that makes Sense

Feb 8, 2022 By OpsLogix In OpsLogix

With the aim to cut down development cycles and time to market, increase the frequency of deployment and ensure high-quality software releases, it is no surprise that DevOps has come to be a popular approach to application development.

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Release Webinar: SquaredUp v5.4

Feb 7, 2022 By Squared Up In Squared Up

Introducing SquaredUp v5.4! Experience new ways to visualize your metrics and provide more actionable insights. Headline updates include: Join our product team on this release webinar to see our latest enhancements in action, and put your questions to our experts in a live Q&A.

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New release: SquaredUp 5.4 - Bring your answers to the surface

Feb 7, 2022 By Squared Up In Squared Up

SquaredUp 5.4 is here and it’s got some brilliant new features and upgrades to help you troubleshoot and find answers faster than ever. You’ll find the upgrades across all three SquaredUp editions – for SCOM, Azure, and the free Community Edition. Here are the highlights in the new release: Check out our release webinar for a detailed walkthrough and demo.

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Dashboard Fridays: Sample au2mator Services Dashboard

Feb 4, 2022 By Squared Up In Squared Up

Our au2mator customers heavily use the au2mator Self Service Portal to present automation as a delegated task to the Service Desk, Users, and Admins. This dashboard shows how au2mator were able to visualize all their services within a single SquaredUp dashboard. Using SQL, PowerShell, Azure Log Analytics, and Web Content, au2mator made a dashboard that looks simple but visualizes a lot. Join Adam Kinniburgh and special guest Michael Seidl from au2mator as they demonstrate how this dashboard was built, the challenges it solves and how you can get the dashboard pack!

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Defining your naming conventions: The key to a structured SCOM environment

Feb 3, 2022 By Jonas Lenntun In OpsLogix

When it comes to sophisticated software like System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), where a structure is vital to maintain your environment, your naming conventions are the key to long-term success. Many different people are involved in the process of monitoring. To maintain documentation and procedures, you must define how you should name parts used in SCOM. Everything from the management group name to groups, management packs, override management packs, views, and folders.

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NiCE VMware Management Pack | Installation and Setup

Feb 2, 2022 By NiCE IT Mgmt In NiCE IT Mgmt

This video will teach you how to set up VMware monitoring for your entire landscape within minutes.

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Containerization and Kubernetes Monitoring

Feb 1, 2022 By OpsLogix In OpsLogix

As cloud-native solutions are gaining recognition and becoming a common approach to developing applications, more attention has been directed towards container orchestration and Kubernetes. Both concepts within the realm of IT have been around for a while. Thanks to the technologies' maturing and cloud adoption, they've recently gained significant attention. We all know that software containers are far from traditional shipping containers, yet they function similarly: they standardize and combine.

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Dashboard Fridays: Sample Excel Business KPIs Dashboard

Jan 28, 2022 By Squared Up In Squared Up

The Management Team at SquaredUp needed a dashboard to visualise key metrics related to the different sectors of business to keep an eye on the KPIs and track targets. This dashboard keeps track of the different key targets set for the business over three time periods and highlights variations. The dashboard also plots the trend on different values hit over the time and helps identify fluctuations.

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GripMatix Citrix MP most used SCOM 3rd-party Management Pack for Citrix

Jan 27, 2022 By GripMatix In GripMatix

The Big SCOM Survey 2021 results are available and we are happy to see that at organizations the use of SCOM is still expected to grow according to more than half of the respondents. It is a survey executed by SCOMathon. But above all, our Citrix Ready Management Pack solution for monitoring Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops scored as second-most used 3rd-party Management Pack of all 3rd-party Management Packs out there.

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