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Up to the year 2015, not much changed and soon Visual Studio 2015 was released. Which was basically only a compatibility support release for Visual Studio 2013. In the mean time Microsoft released support of Visual Studio 2013 for Visual Studio Authoring Extensions 2013 for System Center Operations Manager. The current version of MP Author is MP Author SP 5.

which was fixed in the later released service packs. In its first version, MP Author was a kind of buggy and also some basic functionality like editing an authored MP, PowerShell script support etc.

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This tool was / is meant for the IT Pro who gets wizard driven support for authoring management packs.

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Some time later, Microsoft discontinued to invest in this tool and started a co-operation with Silect, to build a free “successor” of the former Authoring Console called Silect MP Author. This way of authoring was very limited by some basic monitors, rules and health model. The idea behind was, to author MPs in a graphical way, utilizing Visio as a graphical interface and by pressing a button the MP was pushed to SCOM. Microsoft’s answer to this problem was a huge flop, called System Center 2012 Visio MP Designer VMPD and was an add-in for Visio 2010 Premium.

The downside of VSAE was / is that it is focused on experienced IT Pros or MP developers, but not for an average SCOM administrator because of the MP authoring knowledge needed – “You need to know what you do”.

Allows multiple authors to work on a single management pack project at the same time.

The fragments can be copied within the management pack, to another management pack, and combined to build the final management pack.

Allows you to create XML fragments containing different management pack elements.

Provides XML templates and IntelliSense for different management pack elements so that you don’t have to have detailed knowledge of the schema.

Work directly with the XML of the management pack allowing you to create any management pack element and monitoring scenario.

This extension was basically an Add-On for Visual Studio 2012 and would let you author MP fragments in XML in a mix of a semi-GUI driven way. 3 years later in 2012, Microsoft released SCOM 2012 and also a new way of authoring management packs – Visual Studio Authoring Extensions for System Center Operations Manager were born. to make your MP authoring experience a bit more comfortable. In 2009 the next version of SCOM 2007 R2 was released and it also included a newer version of the Authoring Console which was included in the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit which also included MP Best Practice Analyzer, MP Spell Checker, MP Visio Generator, MP Diff etc. In the same wave Microsoft released the widely loved Authoring Console which was a GUI driven approach and more or less intuitive to work with for an IT Pro. In 2007 when SCOM 2007 was released, Microsoft changed that concept to the sealed (MP extension) / unsealed (XML extension) management pack concept which is still valid up to this point.

Back in the days where MOM 2005 used to rule the monitoring world, you had these AKM management pack files which could not be changed or authored outside of MOM. If you have been working for some time with SCOM, you know there is a (long) history behind authoring MOM/SCOM management packs. I usually don’t blog about new releases of management packs or similar things, but this time I feel I have to do so.