Operations Manager news from Ignite 2015

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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?

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  Great for an all up view across System Center
  
  
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  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

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  Announcements
  

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  SCOM agent to run on Nano Server as part of System Center 2016
  
  
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  Network monitoring enhancements coming in System Center 2016
  
  
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  MP Catalog improvements coming in an update rollup
  
  
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  Storage Spaces MP for 2012 R2 now available
  

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  Demos
  
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    Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016
    
    
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    Forthcoming Azure MP for System Center 2012 R2
    
    
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    Scheduled Maintenance Mode in System Center 2016 preview
    
    
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    Modern Dashboards using the upcoming SQL Server Management Pack for System Center 2012 R2
    
    
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    Apache and MySQL Monitoring in System Center 2016
    
    
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    Configuring Operations Manager to report to the new Operations Management Suite (previously Operational Insights)
    
    
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    SquaredUp HTML dashboards
    

Building Highly Effective Dashboards in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

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

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  Demos (all using System Center 2012 R2)
  
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    Examples of dashboards created by partners
    
    
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    Building dashboards with the dashboard widgets released as part of a update rollup 2.
    
    
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    Modern dashboards for any computer group using the forthcoming SQL Server MP
    
    
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    Azure MP
    

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

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