This is a summary of the wave of Management Packs that were released in April 2015. Information and download location in the links provided:

Cisco IMC MP version 1.2(1) – here

DPM 2012 R2 MP V 4.2.1276.0 – here

NiCE Log File MP v1.30 – here

Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V MP v7.1.10107.0 – here

Windows Server Storage Spaces 2012 R2 MP v1.1.253.0 – here

If you know of any other Management Packs that have been released recently that I may have missed leave me a note in the comments and I’ll add them.

An updated version of Microsofts Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V management pack has been released version 7.1.10107.0 is available for download here.

Updated in this version:

• Changed the format of management pack file from MP type to MPB type
• Fixed bug that prevents the free disk space from being collected and therefore prevents the monitors tracking disk space from firing correctly. This could lead to disks filling up and outages as a result of this not being detected correctly.
• Fixed bug that was generating 11903 events with the exception “The Microsoft Operations Manager Expression Filter Module could not convert the received value to the requested type.”. These events are raised by Microsoft.Windows.HyperV.2012.R2.VirtualDrive.FreeSpaceMonitor

Version 1.1.253.0 of the Windows Server Storage Spaces 2012 R2 is available for download here

This Management Pack contains rules to monitor physical disk and enclosure state in storage spaces.

Management Pack Scope

This management pack supports up to:

16 Storage Nodes 12 Storage Pools 120 File Shares.

Prerequisites

The following requirements must be met to run this management pack:

• Operations Manager Connector for Virtual Machine Manager installed and configured.

        https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh427287.aspx

        Configuring this connection will install the required VMM Management Packs.

• Storage Spaces managed by Virtual Machine Manager.

• KB2913766 “Hotfix improves storage enclosure management for Storage Spaces” must be installed on the VMM server and file server nodes

NiCE have released a new version of their free Log File management pack. Version 1.30 is available for download off their site at nice.de

New features based off community feedback(Which is great to see):

• Improved SCOM Authoring Console Wizards
• Improved Cluster Support
• Enhanced Self-Monitoring
• Performance and stability improvements

An updated version of the DPM 2012 R2 MP has been released it is available for download here.

Full details of the enhancements to this version and the new reports capability are available at the following article http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2015/04/16/announcing-centralized-and-customizable-backup-reports-using-data-protection-manager.aspx 

This is a summary of the wave of Management Packs that were released in March 2015. Information and download location in the links provided:

Microsoft Workflow Manager MP v1.0.2015.0 – here

Exchange 2013 MP v15.0.665.19 – here

Microsoft Windows Server AD CS v7.1.10100.0 – here

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 and 2013 MP – here

HP MSA P2000 MP v1.1.3.8 – here

If you know of any other Management Packs that have been released recently that I may have missed leave me a note in the comments and I’ll add them.

An updated version of the HP MSA P2000 Management pack has been released, version 1.1.3.8 is available for download here.

New in this version:

• Performance Collection scripts were modified to capture exception when no performance XML file is found. Warning Event 805 is logged in Operations Manager Log on MSA Monitoring Server.
• For Physical Disk and Volume Performance Collection Scripts, timeout was Increased to 240s
• Since there are a lot of performance counters to be collected => Performance Rules Collection Intervals were Increased from 2 to 5 minutes.
• If you choose to change Collection Interval in order not to break Cookdown please make sure that you Change Time interval on all instances for particular class.

Thanks to for Juse at Rather Serious SCOM Blog  listing the changes in this version