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Announcing Icinga for Windows v1.0

It is finally ready for launch – the first final release v1.0 of Icinga for Windows. The past months were quite challenging: Analyzing, troubleshooting and fixing issues reported by our awesome community and customers: Your support made it possible that we can celebrate the release of our new foundation for Windows monitoring. Scalable. Simplified. Extendable.

Migrate Your Windows 2003 Applications to Kubernetes

There’s no one-size-fits-all migration path for moving legacy applications to the cloud. These applications typically reside on either physical servers, virtual machines or on premises. While the goal is generally to rearchitect or redesign an application to leverage cloud-native services, it’s not always the answer.

SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor Overview

SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor (SCM) is designed to provide insights into Windows® server and application changes to help you pinpoint the root cause of performance problems faster. Detect, track, and receive alerts when changes occur, allowing you to correlate system performance against configuration changes, know who made changes, and compare configurations over time. SCM integrates with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, allowing you to extend troubleshooting of system and application performance from one unified console.

Windows 10 and RDSH - Has the Game Changed?

I wrote a blog article back in 2017—Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 – the Old Battle of VDI Versus RDSH—wherein I discussed in depth the relationship between Windows 10 as a client OS and Windows Server with the Remote Desktop Session Host role installed. Since virtual desktops became a thing, this debate has continued pretty much in the form that I laid out there.

NSA's Windows 10 Advisory - Is Your OS Really Secure?

New year, same old problems for Windows 10. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Earlier this month the United State’s National Security Agency (NSA) announced that they discovered a major vulnerability in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 that could have had dire consequences for businesses around the world. The vulnerability places Windows endpoints at risk to a broad range of exploitation vectors NSA official cybersecurity advisory

Windows 7 End of Life: Everything You Need to Know About Migrating to Windows 10

Are you prepared for Windows 7 end of life? Today marks the day that Windows 7 has entered its end of life phase. What does that mean? It means that after 11 years, Microsoft's updates and security fixes will no longer be offered for the old operating system. Millions of PCs around the globe are still running Windows 7, and it's important to know how Windows 7 end of life will affect those PCs.

Icinga for Windows - RC2 Available

Icinga for Windows is our framework and plugin collection to monitor Windows hosts natively with the Icinga Agent. We published our first release candidate in November, today we are delighted to announce the availability of Release Candidate 2 of Icinga for Windows. Thanks to your feedback and tests during the past weeks, we were able to improve the entire solution and increase the stability and reliability.