What is it?

SCOM contains a wealth of knowledge about your infrastructure, from how your infrastructure is connected to the logs and performance metrics is collected for you, yet seeing a potential security threat through all this data can be impossible. Luckily gen AI is excellent at summarizing complicated and large sets of data. In this session Wei will show you how to join the two through a plugin for CoPilot for Security.

Have you ever wanted to build your SCOM groups dynamically from your CMDB? It already has all the information you need to make this happen. Join this session to hear how Saxo Bank built out groups based on server priority from their existing CMDB data natively in SCOM.

So you are considering upgrading your old SCOM Management Group to a newer version, but aren’t sure what the path might look like – in place, side by side or fresh deployment, and then Microsoft brings out SCOM Managed Instance. Confused? Don’t worry, Bob from TopQore has you covered. In this session he will cover all the paths and all the options from where you are to where you want to head, including SCOM MI.

We will look at SCOM vs SCOM MI and discuss the similarities and differences between the two, and more importantly why you should care about SCOM MI.

Having Microsoft manage patching your SCOM deployment sounds great but you need a better understanding of the costs to convince management? Then this session is for you! Ankur will explain all and compare the price of on prem SCOM with SCOM MI and show you all the latest features along with what is coming soon.

Discover the seismic impact of Generative AI on our digital realm and how it’s reshaping the very fabric of monitoring. Delve into the future of alerting, tuning, and the human element in this dynamic keynote by Cameron, one of SCOM’s original pioneers. Brace yourself for insights that will redefine the landscape of monitoring as we know it.

SCOM MI has both advantages and disadvantages from the perspective of security, including some aspects you may not have considered. Get the full picture from Nathan Gau who puts SCOM MI under the microscope, comparing it to both on prem SCOM but also to Azure Monitor.

Discover how PowerShell transcends being just a scripting language to becoming an essential tool for SCOM administrators. Blake from Microsoft introduces a suite of PowerShell scripts designed to tackle SCOM challenges head-on. Dive into how these scripts can streamline your SCOM issue resolution process.

Veeam Backup is widely deployed and used by customers of SCOM, yet there is no Management Pack from Veeam which can be a bit of a blind spot for SCOM. David Smith from Wellspan takes us through his new and free community MP for exactly this purpose. From alerts when jobs fail to backup server health, this MP has you covered.

This panel will discuss the Future of SCOM: Evolution, AI Adoption, and Game-Changing Innovations.