A really great update to the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management Pack has been released to the catalogue.

I have been at the MVP summit and had the opportunity to look at this MP up close and personal courtesy of the MP's owner and OpsMgr PM Cory Delamarter.

The MP has a number of fantastic new additions including the ability to accurately view agent processor time, detect agent architecture mismatches and agent versions and some extremely improved Knowledge base information.

Cory has really set the bar high with this new MP, and Dan Rogers who is spearheading the new internal MP efforts at Microsoft is pushing hard to make sure all furture MP's that come from the Product Groups meet up with this great new standard.

Top work fellas and keep up the good work

You can find Corys post here:

http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2010/02/19/opsmgr-2007-r2-mp-version-6-1-7599-0-is-released.aspx

And you can download the new MP either directly from your OpsMgr console or alternatively from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=61365290-3c38-4004-b717-e90bb0f6c148&displaylang=en