Change signals a shift away from legacy monitoring packs toward modern observability and Azure-based monitoring tools.

Microsoft has announced that SCOM Management Packs for SSRS, PBIRS, and SSAS will reach End of Support in January 2027, forcing enterprise migration to Azure Monitor.

Microsoft will retire SCOM SQL monitoring packs in 2027, pushing customers toward Azure Monitor and cloud billing.

The modern enterprise software landscape demands professionals who can seamlessly navigate the complexities of full-stack ...

If you’re licensing your virtual SQL Servers by core, you may be missing out on a significant opportunity to reduce costs.

Customer may upgrade to the latest version of an available Product. If Customer acquires perpetual Licenses through SA, it may deploy new version upgrades for those Licenses after SA coverage has ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

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The Server and Cloud Enrollment (SCE) is a licensing program under the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA). Hence, it allows organizations to standardize on one or more Microsoft Server and Cloud ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft patched a vulnerability that was flagged with the "highest ever" severity rating received by an ASP.NET Core security flaw. This HTTP request smuggling bug (CVE-2025-55315 ...