Thursday, February 8, 2018

SCOM 1801 Has Just Been Released!

The latest release of SCOM (1801) has just been announced and it brings with it some major changes in licensing along with some nice additional features and enhancements compared to earlier versions.
Licensing Changes

This is the first release of SCOM in the new Semi-Annual Channel (SAC) model and it will enable Microsoft to deliver much faster capabilities to our favourite monitoring platform than we ever had before - e.g. two product releases per year versus one every three or four years. Due to this faster release cadence, SAC releases only have an 18-month support policy with the concept being similar to how we manage, deploy and get support for service packs to our operating systems and other applications.

If this short-term release cycle isn't something that you fancy, then you can still deploy SCOM using the Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) model - which will provide new version releases at a much lower frequency and no new features will be added - mainly just bug fixes. With LTSC, you get up to 5 years of mainstream support followed by 5 more years of extended support - as has been standard with the versions of SCOM we've been using up to now.

Key Features

We get a number of new features with this release with my favourites being the new HTML 5 widgets, Service Map integration and the enhanced performance gains. Here's the full list of everything that's new:

  • Improved HTML5 dashboard experience 
  • Enhanced SDK performance 
  • Linux Logfile monitoring enhancements 
  • Linux Kerberos support 
  • GUI support for entering SCOM License key 
  • Service Map integration 
  • Updates and Recommendations for third-party vendor Management Packs 
  • System Center Visual Studio Authoring Extension (VSAE) support for Visual Studio 2017

The bits for this new release should start hitting your normal licensing channels for download around about now (if it's not there, give it a day or so to fully populate) and in the meantime, you can download an evaluation copy of SCOM 1801 from the Evaluation Center here.

I'll post back in the coming days with my thoughts on the new release and anything extra that I come across.

Enjoy!

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