There are situations where it may be useful to have the scripts that are part of your MP to be enclosed in CDATA tags. This allows you to copy and paste scripts directly from MP XML into a file and run them (usually to debug some issue). If you use the $IncludeFileContent…$ directive in VSAE...

Introduction In my previous post , I discussed how you can use MPBPA v2 to automatically fix common issues in MPs. In order to preview the changes that MPBPA v2 makes to MPs when fixing issues, you need to have a comparer application configured in MPBPA v2. The previous post assumes that WinDiff was...

Today, we will take a look at MPBPA v2’s ability to automatically fix problems it finds in management packs. To illustrate this behavior, I attached a small sample MP that has a few best practice violations that can be fixed by MPBPA v2. (MPBPA v2 is available from the System Center Operations Manager...

There are certain things that you can do with the All References add-in that are not immediately obvious while using it. Here are some of them: Non-Modal Windows The search result windows displayed by the add-in are non-modal. As a result, you can have as many windows open as you want. If you search...

The All References Add-in is described in some detail in the previous post .   If you often open MPs that are referred to by a lot of other MPs (in your reference folders), you may find that the All References Add-in consumes a lot of memory during its search. This only applies to often-used library...

The All References Add-in is one of the tools included with the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit that shipped recently. It allows you to find references to the selected MP element in the currently opened MP in the Authoring Console as well as any MP that refers to the currently...