Microsoft Ignite in Orlando has started, already on day one we got a lot of announcements and new features. In this post I will try to keep track of the updates on regarding monitoring and management. SCOM, OMS, Azure monitor etc.

Microsoft Operations Management Suite, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor

• Azure Security Center for hybrid cloud.
• Azure Monitor, near real-time alerts
• New container monitoring solution
• Using Log Analytics query across multiple workspaces
• The OMS portal as we know it will be deprecated and everything integrated in to the Azure portal.

System Center Operations Manager

From the session “System Center : First look at advancements coming this year” held 26.09 we got the following annoucements regarding SCOM.

• New release cadence.
• • System Center 1801 prieview early November. Release Q1 2018
• Service Map integration
• Windows Server 2016 SDDC monitoring
• Improved Unix/Linux support
• • “setup improvements” hopefully a better way to deploy “manually”
  • Kerberos support
  • Log file monitoring with FluentD. Essentially this enables us to create monitors etc. based on logfiles as we can with Windows
• SCOM 2016 HTML5 console
• • Improved diagnostics and drill down – this is huge for those who haven’t invested in third-party software
  • Custom widget support. Display other charts on your dashboard.
• MP updates and recommendations (introduced in 2016) now supports 3rd party MPs. 56 partners with certified MPs are available.
• Visual Studio Authoring Extension for VS 2017

Other interesting stuff

• Planned Maintenance for Azure VM
• Teams primary communication client for Office 365 (Not Skype)
• Updates to cognitive services api
• Azure Cost Management from Clouddyn
• Azure Stack is shipping