The Big SCOM Survey: Results and expert analysis
7 hours
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
Bruce Cullen
Director of Products @ SquaredUp, Founding Member @ Cookdown
Meet Bruce, Product Director at SquaredUp & Founding member of Cookdown. He product manages cloud integrations and on-prem products bringing the worlds tools together under smart dashboards that understand your data. With a decade-long stint at Citrix under his belt, Bruce's journey from software tester to project management maestro saw him spearhead the transition of XenApp and XenDesktop (aka CVAD) from on-premises to cloud. Passionate about observability and sustainable computing, Bruce is your go-to guru for navigating the complexities of both cloud and on-prem software. When he's not orchestrating innovation at the keyboard, you'll find him conquering miles on his bike, pounding the pavement running, or enjoying precious moments with his family.
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Coffee Break: Deep dive into a SCOM Administrator's toolbox
11 hours
In this Coffee Break, Stoyan Chalakov, Microsoft MVP and SCOM consultant, joined Bruce Cullen, Director of Products at Cookdown, for a deep dive look at
HackaSCOM: Ready, Set, Code!
4 hours
And… the countdown has begun! This afternoon, we kicked off HackaSCOM with day one of the two-day hackathon, “Ready, Set, Code”. Over the next 24 hours,
HackaSCOM: The Results
7 hours
And the results are in! Read on to see each contestant's solution and find out where you can get ahold of it.
HackaSCOM 2021, Day 1 – Ready, Set, Code
1 hour
During this webinar, the SCOM community vote on the final monitoring mission we set our experts. Our experts then share their initial thoughts on their
HackaSCOM 2021, Day 2 - The Results
2 hour
In this webinar, our experts were center-stage to showcase their work live to our panel of judges, who then critiqued their approach and nominated a
Coffee Break: SCOM alerting basics explained
11 hours
Alerts are a core part of SCOM but aren’t always intuitive to work with and set up. So, we asked Sameer Mhaisekar, Technical Evangelist at SquaredUp, to
Coffee Break: The Big SCOM Survey 2021 - The Results
1 hour
Our panel of SCOM experts come together to explore and discuss the results of The Big SCOM Survey 2021, and to examine: how the wider SCOM Community use SCOM, the tools & techniques they are applying, and what their future SCOM plans are.
Coffee Break: Integrating the Security Monitoring MP into Microsoft Sentinel
3 hours
In this Coffee Break webinar, a panel of four experts showcase the new Security Monitoring Management Pack for Microsoft Sentinel. They discuss where it came from, what it can be used for, and most importantly, why Microsoft Sentinel and SCOM make a good pair.
The Big SCOM Survey 2021: Full results
6 hours
The full list of results for The Big SCOM Survey 2021. We surveyed 81 SCOM users with the same 27 questions we asked in 2020. We include comparison charts at certain points to track how the SCOM landscape is changing.
Coffee Break: The SCOM Clinic: Common SCOM Problems and Solutions
1 hour
Tune into this Coffee Break to hear all about the most common problems experienced with SCOM, how to diagnose if your SCOM setup is running efficiently, and what action you can take to get SCOM in tip top condition.
Coffee Break: The Big SCOM Survey 2021: Expert Analysis
14 hours
We asked six SCOM experts to give their perspective on the revealing results of the Big SCOM Survey 2021 and how the responses differed from the 2020 survey.
Coffee Break: Azure Stack HCI Management Pack Deep Dive with Microsoft
1 hour
Join Bhavna Appayya, Product Manager in Microsoft's System Center team, for a deep dive into the latest Management Pack from the SCOM Product Group – the Azure Stack HCI MP.
Coffee Break: The Ultimate Guide to Implementing the Manifesto for SCOM Success
1 hour
In this Coffee Break webinar, Cookdown Director of Products Bruce Cullen looks into how to succeed at implementing each element of the manifesto, discussing the challenges of SCOM, and how to overcome them.
Use Webhooks to raise alerts in SCOM
21 mins
Do you want to make SCOM the center of your monitoring tools to take advantage of its health rollup and comprehensive object model, but don’t want to
Panel Discussion: How the SCOM roadmap changes everything
27 mins
Our panel discuss what is new in SCOM 2022, what was shared in the SCOM Product Group’s keynote session, and what it means for the future of SCOM.
Panel Discussion: Extending SCOM
25 mins
SCOM is great the way it comes, but we all know you can get so much more from it by extending it, from additional monitoring to platform iterations, our
Panel Discussion: How the SCOM roadmap changes everything
27 mins
Our panel discuss what is new in SCOM 2022, what was shared in the SCOM Product Group’s keynote session, and what it means for the future of SCOM.
Coffee Break: Comparing methods for connecting SCOM with the rest of your IT tooling
1 hour
In this month’s Coffee Break webinar, we discuss why SCOM is the perfect tool to be the centre of your monitoring universe; bring together alerts, events, performance, and inventory all in one place.
Coffee Break: SCCM Community MP - Deep Dive
1 hour
In this month’s Coffee Break webinar, we take a deep dive into Dujon Walsham's free community endpoint manager SCCM MP. Sign up to see how Dujon’s MP uses SCOM’s native rules and monitors to deliver full SCCM coverage and far greater monitoring capabilities than the native SCOM tool.
Coffee Break: SCOM 2022 Migration
1 hour
Now that SCOM 2022 has been around for a while and has been battle-tested, you might be considering an upgrade! In this month’s Coffee Break webinar, Bob Cornelissen, an industry-renowned expert in monitoring and upgrading SCOM, will be joining us to walk you through the process and share best-practice tips.
Coffee Break: Monitoring Certificates with Microsoft’s new MP
1 hour
At our next Coffee Break webinar, join the Microsoft SCOM Product Group and find out what the new Microsoft Certificates Monitoring MP (currently in CTP)
Meet this year's HackaSCOM judges
3 mins
Find out who'll be judging HackaSCOM 2022, what they thought of last year's event, and what they are expecting to see from our contenders this year!
Ready, Set, Code!
28 mins
HackaSCOM 2022 - Day 1During this webinar, the SCOM community vote on the final monitoring mission we set our experts. Our experts then share their
The Results
1 hour
HackaSCOM 2022 - Day 2 In this webinar, our experts take center-stage to showcase their work live to our panel of judges, who then critique their approach
Coffee Break: Presenting SCOM Managed Instance
1 hour
Join Aakash Basavaraj from the Microsoft SCOM Product Group and find out what SCOM Managed Instance (MI) really is, and see it in action.
HackaSCOM 2022: everything that happened
11 hours
HackaSCOM 2022 - the two-day hackathon – was another incredible SCOM event! Our expert contestants were given just 24 hours to build a SCOM solution, as
Hybrid monitoring with SCOM MI and visualizing on SquaredUp dashboards
36 mins
In this session, Ankur Gupta from the Microsoft SCOM product group demos the latest capabilities and discusses the roadmap of Azure Monitor SCOM Managed
Panel Discussion: Microsoft Monitoring, what do we want to see?
25 mins
We all have views on where SCOM, Azure Monitor, and more generally, monitoring for Microsoft products should go next, against the backdrop of companies
Panel Discussion: AI for SCOM and beyond
34 mins
Besides summarizing and diagnosing, AI could dispatch and even fix alerts too. But, to implement AI successfully for such tasks, a consistent event
Panel Discussion: Open Source and SCOM
32 mins
Find out what our panel of experts had to say about how they have seen SCOM use open source in the past, discuss where they have seen open source working
SCOMathon Welcome
27 mins
Bruce Cullen opened the event with a recap of how SCOMathon even came to be. You may remember May of 2020, the rapid cancelling of events, and the gaping events hole left behind. That’s when SCOMathon was born! Plus, he shared his personal highlights for what to look forward to this SCOMathon 2023.
SCOMathon Closing
16 mins
Closing out SCOMathon 2023, Bruce wrapped up with some fun stats and highlighted some of the most interesting talk moments. See what else Bruce picked out as key takeaways from the core sessions.
Coffee Break: Monitoring without authoring - How to enable self-service
1 hour
Wish your application teams could build and review their own monitoring? Join this Coffee Break webinar to learn more about the Standard Monitoring Framework (SMF) for SCOM. Learn how the SMF enables application teams to own, build, and review monitoring for their business services—all without complex MP authoring. More monitoring, less authoring!
Coffee Break: What's New with SCOM MI: Azure Monitor Integration, Pricing, and Roadmap
1 hour
Join us for this Coffee Break webinar with Microsoft Program Manager, Ankur Gupta, to learn what is new in SCOM MI's development, including new features,
Coffee Break: Big SCOM Survey Results
1 hour
The results are in! This year's Big SCOM Survey has seen the most responses ever! In this Coffee Break webinar, SquaredUp Director of Products Bruce Cullen and his guest panellists will discuss the findings and what it means for the future.
Coffee Break: Maintenance Mode Best Practices
1 hour
Join this Coffee Break webinar for a deep dive on Scheduled Maintenance Mode and its best practices. Hosted by Bruce Cullen and Jonas Lenntun.
Coffee Break: Linux Agent failed upgrades and what do to about them
1 hour
Hear from the experts on upgrading the Linux agent from the SCOM console and common causes of upgrade failures.
Coffee Break: SCOM MI what's new 2025: Log Analytics + Simplified setup
1 hour
Join this Coffee Break webinar for a deep dive on Scheduled Maintenance Mode and its best practices. Hosted by Bruce Cullen and Jonas Lenntun.
Management Pack Authoring for Beginners
1 hour
“Management Pack authoring looks really cool – but where do I start?” If this is sounds like you, join our experts on this MP authoring 101 webinar! In
Panel Discussion: What is the future of SCOM?
45 mins
In this panel, we discuss what the future might hold for SCOM. This was one panel not to be missed as most of our panellists have been around since the
Panel Discussion: How to best monitor applications with SCOM
40 mins
Our panel seeks to answer the question "How to best monitor applications with SCOM" and take you through your options, with and without SCOM.
Panel Discussion: Can SCOM really monitor anything?
45 mins
Our panel of experts seek to answer the question "Can SCOM really monitor anything?" and, more importantly, should you use SCOM to monitor everything?
SCOM Security - the best tips, tools and MPs to secure your SCOM environment
1 hour
With cyber-attacks on the rise, security is top of the agenda for most IT teams. But there is no need to shell out for costly security products when SCOM
No more headaches: Easy tune your MPs and sync to ServiceNow
34 mins
In this session, Bruce will solve your top 3 SCOM challenges with the power of Cookdown, ServiceNow and (of course) SCOM. Issues such as SCOM alerts not
Custom MP creation with PowerShell
1 hour
In this month’s Coffee Break episode, Dujon Walsham, SCOM Architect and Consultant, will be joining Cookdown’s Director of Products, Bruce Cullen, to
Everything you need to know about authoring SCOM Management Packs
1 hour
In this month’s Coffee Break, Silect's Development Lead, Mike Sargent, joins Cookdown's Director of Products, Bruce Cullen, to discuss Mike's illuminating
Microsoft launches new M365 Management Pack for Office 365
1 hour
In this month’s Coffee Break, Aakash Basavaraj, Program Manager at Microsoft, joins Cookdown's Director of Products, Bruce Cullen, and SquaredUp’s
Authoring Management Packs and monitoring Linux/Unix using fragments
1 hour
In this month’s Coffee Break, Christian Heitkamp, Product Manager at NiCE IT Management Solutions, will be joining Bruce Cullen, Director of Products at
NEW PRODUCT ALERT: Connect SCOM to just about anywhere with an API, using their new Connection Center
30 mins
Cookdown present their latest solution - Connection Center. Connecting SCOM and anywhere with an API, using real-time two-way synchronization to automate
Getting events into SCOM from any system
1 hour
A deep dive on how to pull events from VMware vROps using PowerShell – from Linux/Unix nodes, Windows systems and network devices - into SCOM, so that alerts can be raised from them.
Deep dive into a SCOM Administrator's toolbox
1 hour
Stoyan gives us a deep dive into what is in his SCOM Administrator's Toolbox, sharing the tools he uses when at customer sites, complete with demos and a full explanation for why each tool is useful
SCOM alerting basics explained
1 hour
Sameer Mhaisekar and Bruce Cullen cover the building blocks that go into generating those SCOM alerts that you are so familiar with. They will cover everything from workflows to alert tuning, and demonstrate how all these things link together.