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is it confirmed its 'confirmed' ?

It takes serious commitment and generosity to contribute to Thwack to the level to win such awards so I applaud each and every winner, and nominees - Well Done!

The ability to add custom query data to Perfstack is what you are asking for here. Upvoted..

Just the 'few' changes to release then... NOT! Excited to see these new features in the wild. Happy upgrading everybody

When it comes to application monitoring tooling I find is not the biggest challenge; it is identifying the makeup of the application. What hardware and software, at what level in the n-tier stack do they fit and interact. This can be problematic, where common enterprise applications such as Sharepoint or Exchange can be…

The biggest challenge in this is time management, where you cherry pick the interesting tasks first and those chore bore tasks just get kicked down the road. It doesn't prevent them needing to be done, it just means they play on your mind longer. Being on the receiving end of training on this gives a clear pattern to…

The simple things in life usually are

Thank you for the warm welcome to an exclusive club. I hearby pledge to continue to strive to evangelise, teach, deliver all things SolarWinds and push SolarWinds to make great products even greater!

Tight integration into the other SolarWinds solutions is something I am looking forward to. (Dont judge me!) Any plans you can share at this point?

This is a very big feature update, as having the ability to tie ports to IP's, users to ports all the way round is valuable to all admins. Track and trace - there's no hiding now!

Not the start to your new position you were hoping for or expecting. The response to this incident by SolarWinds is vital to restoring trust and confidence, which the message demonstrating the commitment and approach to making SolarWinds secure first is great to hear.

I know the fun and games that comes with a cat jumping on your lap, walking in front of screen, sending that email you were STILL writing as they hop across to the window ledge. My cat is too old to be chasing a cursor around a screen, so I get some entertainment, so I have to make do with seeing his head move slightly as…

DanielleH​ - Great idea for Microsoft to hold an MVP summit don't you think?

It is strange how I have ended up spending way more time on Teams, webex and many other platform for meetings than I ever spent in meetings of any kind when in the office. Is this due to the need to schedule meetings, as you can't just 'pop by' for a chat. I haven't quite worked it out yet, but reducing the number of calls…

Great post. Ever since Microsoft stated that PowerShell would be their foundation for system management I have felt that operators needed to get on the good ship 'Coding'. While things are reversing (as they often do in our universe) GUI's will never allow a SysAdmin to be truly efficient. I am not talking about full…

In addition to supporting these devices in the SRM for Orion application could you also include data capture of CKD volumes.

Great news. Im excited to get our customers on to this release, as there are some hugely beneficial features included with one of my highlights being the ability to control Custom Property input in node management.

I haven't had a chance to diagnose this too much so far, but simply copying the folder and creating a new Website in IIS does allow the framework of the website to load, but no dynamic values are presented. In other words, you can see the resources, you can click on Settings, but you cannot see any nodes, charts or…

As SolarWinds resellers, in the last year we have had a number of customers/potential customers ask about SAML support. This is something that is becoming more prevalent and with the integration work within the SolarWinds family would no doubt be a good inclusion. Any possibility of getting an update?

Bah, now I and my team will have to find how to spend those hours each month, previously dedicated to working through the various upgrade path options that should/could be taken. We need to wait until everyone is on 2019.4 as the base point, but until then, we can continue to use our finely honed skills using the upgrade…

There has been and will continue, with no doubt a greater pace of tooling which can deliver a low code/no code framework for many IT tasks. These purpose built process automation applications exist already, but as you indicated adoption has been a slow and gradual affair, which could be attributed to many reasons; trust,…

My wife has been working from home for many years, and the odd occasions I previously did, we didn't have an issue working around each other. However, lock down and full time wfh mean't a discussion on who gets the proper office room and who sets up a new working desk area. The "let's work in the same room" conversation,…

Are there any circumstances where maintaining a separate NPM/NCM database is recommende i.e. performance or scale?

Ah MAN!!!!

Congratulations to all winners! Recognition is important in every facet of life and where so much of your life is spent in the workplace, being identified and commended by your piers is a testament to the people you all clearly are.

Hi, To add to this request, this is a major annoyance for us. We perform A LOT of installations for customers and when using the Views by Device type feature, which is on pretty much every installation we do, it is necessary to create a whole new set of page/sub page entries because it is not possible to use the 'Show this…

Planning is the foundation for success, but the thing that I have always loved about IT in particular and good people in IT, is the ability to adapt quickly. Best laid plans and all, but when you come to the implementation of plans, they cannot cover everything. Issues come along, blockers encountered and it is the…

The API could be leveraged to achieve this if you need it before it gets adopted (assuming it will of course) Create your discovery profile and then use the API to add/remove nodes from that profile.

I echo these sentiments and my mantra has always been that having too much data is not so much of an issue, AS LONG AS the presentation and structure of this data is managed correctly. Removing the capabilities of the underlying platform from the equation also of course. Clearly, controlling the data that is collected or…

An ability to set a custom property to be hidden provides a method to achieve so much more, as often it is not desired to create a raft of custom properties as this will only lead to confusion by users that do not need to see them Either simply hide them from non admins or tie to a drop down list for the AD Groups and…