These updated MPs are also referenced to as Cumulative Update #3 (CU#3).

Click the following link to download the MP files for AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat Enterprise, Solaris, and SLES.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=b7af6707-ce3f-4401-8b61-760facabcd54

“The IT Asset Management capability that Provance delivers to Microsoft System Center customers further strengthens and extends our knowledge-driven IT management solutions and showcases the tremendous extensibility of System Center.” – Larry Orecklin, General Manager, System Center and Virtualization Marketing, Microsoft

The Provance IT Asset Management Pack will be available concurrent to the release of Microsoft System Center Service Manager in the first half of 2010. The Beta 1 release of the Provance IT Asset Management Pack is now available to qualified participants in the company’s beta testing and evaluation program. The program is open to Microsoft partners, customers and internal staff participating in the Microsoft System Center Service Manager Beta 2 program who have expertise in managing IT environments with Microsoft System Center solutions.

Register for beta updates or apply to participate in the beta program.

Feature Summary

Collection of Audit events from UNIX/Linux server, including:

o AIX 5.3/6.1

o HP-UX 11iv2/11iv3

o Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5

o SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9/10/11

o Solaris 8/9/10

Built in Audit Repots including:

o Access violations – unsuccessful logon attempts

o Account creation/deletion/password change

o Administrator activity – su, sudo

o Forensic – all events for a computer/event ID

o User logons

• Support for Windows Server 2008 R2.
• Additional support for:
  • Active Directory Web Services (ADWS) for Windows Server 2008 R2;
  • Active Directory Management Gateway Service for Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, and Windows Server 2008.
• Updates to existing functionality around:
  • Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 migration;
  • Monitoring of operations master roles (also known as flexible single master operations (FSMO) roles);
  • Enhanced performance monitors, and log size and database size monitors.
• A revamped deployment and usage guide.

Users of Operations Manager 2007 R2 can download this directly from the online MP service via the integrated MP download wizard.  Alternatively the MP can be downloaded from here or via the Operations Manager MP Catalog.

To read the full report (no Gartner account needed), visit the Gartner site at:

http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/vol10/article2and3/article2and3.html

Read the post: SMS&MOM : OpsMgr 2007: Email notification to external email address fails with error 31500

System Center Essentials 2007

946418 Error message when you install the System Center Operations Manager 2007 reporting feature: "SRS Server Validation Error"

949448 Error message in System Center Operations Manager 2007 or in System Center Essentials 2007: "The setup wizard was interrupted before System Center Operations Manager 2007 could be installed" or "The client has been disconnected from the server"

System Center Operations Manager 2007

949446 The mouse pointer disappears and the mouse rotation operation is unpredictable in System Center Operations Manager 2007

949447 You may have to restart the computer when you install the security update that Microsoft Knowledge Base article 933579 describes

948559 AEM does not work when the management server action account is a low-permission account in System Center Operations Manager 2007

949450 You cannot add required permissions to the share when you run the "fix permissions" task in System Center Operations Manager 2007

949453 The state calculation may be delayed when a new group or a distributed application is created in System Center Operations Manager 2007

946426 You are not prompted that a computer is shut down after the Maintenance Mode window expires in System Center Operations Manager 2007

949449 The Client Monitoring Configuration Wizard fails with an unknown error that occurs together with the 80FF002B code when you enable the client monitoring feature in System Center Operations Manager 2007

949455 System Center Operations Manager 2007 Reporting installation fails on a Windows Server 2008 computer if IIS 6.0 Management Compatibility is not installed

Dell v.3.0

The Dell Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager and System Center Essentials integrates Dell PowerEdge server alerts into Ops Manager. The Management Pack provides a list of Dell-specific views that you can use to observe and drill down the system status in a network

1) Added support for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 and System Center Essentials 2007.
2) Enhanced health drill down model in Diagram views from overall Dell Hardware health to individual hardware components.
3) Includes support for the latest versions of Dell OpenManage Server Administrator v5.2 (including the enhanced Storage Management Service 2.2).
4) Supports monitoring of Dell printers using SNMPv2

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R168582&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=229201

Intel

Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager and System Center Essentials is now available. This management pack enables the users of these applications to take advantage of the advanced, hardware-based system management capabilities of Intel® AMT, which are built into PCs with Intel® VPro™ processor technology. These capabilities will help reduce the cost of discovering, managing and securing desktop and mobile PCs in the enterprise and thereby improving compliance with corporate policies. Information Technology (IT) support staff can now rapidly and remotely communicate with, power up, reboot, control, inventory assets, and remediate desktop PCs with Intel® VPro™ processor technology even if the PC is powered off or the operating system is not functioning. Support staff are able to manage PCs more effectively from the IT support center which leads to a reduction in desk-side visits and hence the total cost of ownership of computing systems equipped with Intel® VPro™ processor technology.

Download the latest version of Intel® Active Management Technology Management Pack for Microsof System Center Operations and System Center Essentials

More information about AMT MP

Download Intel® Server Management Pack

HP 1.5 (Note that this is a special version for SCE that inlcudes both the Proliant and Blade MP’s)

The HP ProLiant Server and BladeSystem Management Packs for Microsoft System Essentials (SCE) expose the native management capabilities of HP ProLiant Servers and BladeSystems through SCE

• Obtain greater visibiltiy of ProLiant servers and BladeSystems utilizing SCE System, State, and Alert views
• Quick root cause analysis with graphical server and blade characterization down to the subsystem level
• Easily manage custom data for HP ProLiant servers with HP’s integrated Custom Data Manager

http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/mpp2007/index.html