Operations Manager news from Ignite 2015

Last week was the Ignite conference in Chicago, and it was a blast!

There was also a lot that happened, so to help you catch up with the key Operations Manager related news from Ignite I've pulled together the following summary.

Platform Vision & Strategy (6 of 7): What’s New in System Center for Management

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2459

Why watch it?

• Great for an all up view across System Center

• Operations Manager specific content starts at 32 minutes

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager: Monitoring in a Modern World

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2467

• Announcements

• SCOM agent to run on Nano Server as part of System Center 2016

• Network monitoring enhancements coming in System Center 2016

• MP Catalog improvements coming in an update rollup

• Storage Spaces MP for 2012 R2 now available

• Demos

  • Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016

  • Forthcoming Azure MP for System Center 2012 R2

  • Scheduled Maintenance Mode in System Center 2016 preview 

  • Modern Dashboards using the upcoming SQL Server Management Pack for System Center 2012 R2

  • Apache and MySQL Monitoring in System Center 2016

  • Configuring Operations Manager to report to the new Operations Management Suite (previously Operational Insights)

  • SquaredUp HTML dashboards

Building Highly Effective Dashboards in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

http://channel9.msdn.com/events/Ignite/2015/BRK3499

• Demos (all using System Center 2012 R2)

  • Examples of dashboards created by partners

  • Building dashboards with the dashboard widgets released as part of a update rollup 2.

  • Modern dashboards for any computer group using the forthcoming SQL Server MP

  • Azure MP

And last, but not least, we announced the availability of System Center 2016 Technical Preview,