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March 2021

Getting started with Dashboard Server

SquaredUp Dashboard Server lets you and your team create beautiful dashboards, for any tool or data, that you can share with everyone in your organization. Here’s a quick introduction to the product where we show you exactly what you can achieve, in no time at all. Let’s start with the three tabs on the top left of the screen: Getting Started, Next Steps, and Sample Dashboards. We’ll run through them one by one.

Upgrades to SCOM Made Easy with Easy Tune - Deep Dive

It can be hard to move tuning between Management Groups when implementing a side-by-side upgrade, especially when you have an old chaotic Management Group where overrides aren't always stored in logical places. In this video, we show you how Easy Tune Enterprise can help with this migration process by capturing effective overrides from wherever they are stored (as CSV files) and then using Easy Tune to apply these to your new SCOM Management Group.

Upgrades to SCOM Made Easy with Easy Tune - 7 Minute Guide

It can be hard to move tuning between Management Groups when implementing a side-by-side upgrade, especially when you have an old chaotic Management Group where overrides aren't always stored in logical places. In this video, we show you how Easy Tune Enterprise can help with this migration process by capturing effective overrides from wherever they are stored (as CSV files) and then using Easy Tune to apply these to your new SCOM Management Group.

Dashboard Server Product Preview

How would your IT team be transformed if you could dashboard anything, for free? Find out on 25th March at 2pm as we introduce you to SquaredUp Dashboard Server. Combining the best of SquaredUp with a powerful Powershell integration, Dashboard Server allows you to dashboard virtually any data, and is made for IT pros looking for a tool that’s quick to implement, easy to set up, and effortless to maintain.

What is ITOM and why is it important to ITSM?

Businesses of today are faced with an extensive list of technical solutions, both on-prem and in the cloud, with which to manage their business services and systems. As the complexity of IT infrastructures increases so does a business’s ability to maintain service levels. If new systems and processes are not aligned and synchronized across a business, it can result in a lack of visibility, which can negatively impact critical services.

Dashboard Server Learning Path

Hey everyone! It’s been a while since we've gone on a learning journey together, after the Azure Monitor Learning Path. I’m thankful for the love that series received, and since then, I've been looking for another opportunity to take on something new and share my learning experience with you all. Finally, the time has come!

DIY Guide to Building a SCOM Connector Webinar

Find out how to use PowerShell and REST APIs to integrate SCOM alerts into ServiceNow. In this webinar, we'll take you through building your own SCOM connector for ServiceNow using Powershell to send SCOM alerts to the Incident table. This DIY guide illustrates how to get alerts out of SCOM to your cloud platforms, therefore you can apply these principles to any similar system.

Visualize your DevOps data for free

We recently launched the public preview of a new tool that lets anyone dashboard anything – for free. Meet Dashboard Server! You can download it free because we wanted to get our incredible dashboards in the hands of more people. The SCOM community know us well but our dashboards are perfect for so many use cases beyond System Center monitoring. And if you love them as much as we think you will, all we ask in return is that you share that love by spreading the word.

Working with the WebAPI tile - tips & tricks

Regardless of the SquaredUp product you use, the WebAPI tile is very useful when it comes to connecting to external data sources and showing them in your dashboards. It brings you closer to that single pane of glass dashboarding dream that we all have, which is why it is also one of our most used tiles!

Azure Management Talk: 8 easy steps to improve your security posture in Azure

You've deployed your application on Azure. Instantly hackers are targeting your public IP and the brute forcing of passwords and ports starts. What now? Should I deploy Azure Sentinel, or just enable Azure Security Center as a start? Join MVP and Microsoft RD Maarten Goet as he takes you through the 8 easy steps into improving your security posture on Azure. This is a demo heavy session no cloud engineer or developer should miss!

The Big SCOM Survey: Results and expert analysis

What’s the future of SCOM? How do others set up their SCOM landscape? What tools are SCOM Managers using to help streamline processes? The answers are all here. The Big SCOM Survey 2021 is the first of what we hope to be an annual survey where we measure the pulse of the SCOM community, get insights and share best practices. This year, we asked 27 questions and had 118 respondents – and we’d like to share our findings with you.

How to build a ServiceNow Incident Connector for SCOM

Connecting Microsoft SCOM and ServiceNow is a no-brainer! If you want to synchronize your alerts with your incidents, view issues in real-time, and generally make your life easier then why wouldn’t you! But, we know not everyone is tech-savvy enough to develop these solutions themselves, so we’ve written this blog to give you a helping hand. So, if you want to give it a go and build your own integration tool, then here’s how to get started.

The future of SCOM

'SCOM is here to stay'. Please read the following extract from an article written by Richard Benwell, CEO at SquaredUp. Gartner predicts that 30% of Enterprise IT spending will be on cloud and outsourcing by 2023. That’s 70% spending on non-cloud and outsourcing – the in-house infrastructure and software we have today. And if you’re running traditional Windows and Linux workloads at scale, SCOM remains the best tool on the market.

Azure Management Talk: Application Observability in a Distributed world

In this session, Chris Reddington will provide an overview of Application Insights and how it slots into the wider Azure Monitoring ecosystem. We will explore Alerts, Metrics, Queries, Dashboards, Workbooks and more, and how Application Insights can bring clarity to a distributed cloud deployment.

Dashboard anything for free: SquaredUp Dashboard Server Public preview available now

How would your IT team be transformed if you could dashboard anything, for free? If you’re an IT pro and want an enterprise dashboarding tool that’s quick to implement, easy to set up, and effortless to maintain, you need SquaredUp Dashboard Server! The public preview of SquaredUp Dashboard Server just went live! Dashboard Server functions independently of SCOM and Azure and introduces a new PowerShell tile to take dashboarding a big step further. Now you can dashboard virtually any data.