SquaredUp Installation - Manual? Pfffft! [#opsmgr #squaredup]

Story-time I saw SquaredUp some year or two ago while googling about on behalf of a customer looking for a dashboard kind of thingy. It looked good and fairly simple, but for some reason it never clicked with the customer and we ended up going for some custom-made dashboards with a little scripting and some DB-queries. I kind of liked the look of their product though and have kept an eye on them now and then. Fast-forward to may 21st this year and the release of version 1.8 and a whole slew of nifty little features. What specifically piqued my interest was the linked dashboards, SharePoint integration and the included SLA and Map plugins. This basically ticked a lot of boxes many of my customers have looked for and something we’ve normally been looking into… err… other products for. That, coupled with some new videos on their Youtube-channel, a few well-placed tweets and a little mail-correspondence had me setting it up in my portable little lab. One of the interesting points is how, supposedly easy, it is to set the portal up. So I reset my lab – PDT is just wonderful – and decided to go for the hail-dummy approach. No manual, no preparations, no check-lists… Next-next-next then hopefully a working portal. The Installation First, download the installation file (yes, singular) through the link you’ve got in your email and save it somewhere proper. Doubleclicked the installation packaged and it now tells me it will install a few pre-requisites and configure the website for me. Next! The EULA I am sure each one of you are reading. Next! Installing, or rather configuring, IIS and pre-requisites for me. Very nice. Next!