Friday, February 29, 2008

How to find the correct Active Directory MP documentation

If you have tried to get the latest MP guide for the Active Directory you might have seen this.

The AD MP documentation you find in the SP1 documentation package released February 27 2008 have this release history:


Release Date

March , 2007 Original release of this guide
July, 2007 Updated Documentation


But in January 15 2008 a newer version is available on Microsoft Download:

Management Pack Release History:
Initial Release 3/23/2007 Version 6.0.5000.0 1/15/2008 - Updated Guide - same version

Release Date Change
March , 2007 Original release of this guide
July, 2007 Create a New Management Pack for Overrides
Updated topics in this release: Configure an Account for Replication Monitoring
October, 2007 Monitors and Overrides for Management Packs
December, 2007 Added discussion of Global Catalogs.
Revised procedure for changing intersite latency
.
This documentation comes together with the AD MP with version 6.0.5000.0.


Together with Operations Manger 2007 SP1 comes the AD MP with version 6.0.6278.0. but there is no MP Guide attached.

Conclusion:
So take the AD MP Guide from the January 15 Web release of AD MP 6.0.5000.0 and use the AD MP from the Ops Mgr 2007 SP1 then I think you are on the right track if you have upgraded your Ops Mgr 2007 installation
But who can be sure?