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Some notes on what I had to install the Exchange mp for Exchange Server 2016 CU8 in a SCOM 2016 UR4 mgmt group. You can use the Exchange 2013 mp (I used 15.0.668.20) to monitor Exchange 2016. Microsoft didn't make one specifically for 2016. Read more here: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2016/06/13/monitoring-exchange-server-2016-with-system-center-operations-manager/ In brief follow these steps: Import the Windows server mp first (MS best practice) Install SCOM agent on all Exchange servers (duh) Enable proxy on all of them. I didn't have access to the Exchange servers and they weren't being discovered so I ran the Reload Configuration  task against the agents and they popped up 5 minutes later. Create AD user account called  Exchange2013SDKUser  and make it a domain user only. (I don't know if you need to do this but the mp guide & forums say you do it as it's used for some synthetic transactions) Add the  Exchange2013SDKUser  user account to loca

I made a custom mp to do some basic service monitoring. I sealed it, installed it and it worked beautifully. Then I thought it'd be a good idea to make a "Views" mp so I could easily see discovered objects & alerts etc so I made a group and stored it in the Views mp. The group dynamically added custom classes that were from the initial sealed monitoring mp. My Views mp was unsealed so that I could setup the Dashboard just how I wanted. All was going well and it displayed discovered objects and alerts as I expected. Thinking all was good I sealed the mp and deleted the unsealed one then imported the sealed one and surprise surprise, one of the panes in the dashboard was blank (the other two were fine). These 3 panes in the dashboard target 1 single group that contained three different classes and it was stored in my sealed monitoring mp. I tried recreating the views mp, upping the version etc but every time I imported the final mp I got the same result. Knowing how muc

While trying to seal a 'views' only mp, MPSeal kept on failing. The command I was running was: MPSeal.exe AirWatch.Views.xml /I C:\Build\MPseal\RefMP /Keyfile C:\Build\MPseal\PairKey.snk /Company "blah company name" Errors returned: : Verification failed with 2 errors: ------------------------------------------------------- Error 1: Found error in 2|AirWatch.Views|1.0.0.0|AirWatch.Views|| with message: Could not load management pack [ID=Microsoft.SystemCenter.Library, KeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, Version=7.0.8433.1]. The management pack was not found in the store. Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Common.ObjectNotFoundException: An object of class ManagementPack with name Microsoft.SystemCenter.Library was not found.    at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.AggregateStoreManagementPackManagement.GetManagementPack(String name, String keytoken, Version version)    at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Configuration.ManagementPackReference.GetManagementPack() ------------------------