Exchange mp install experience

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:

1. Import the Windows server mp first (MS best practice)
2. Install SCOM agent on all Exchange servers (duh)
3. Enable proxy on all of them.
4. 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.
5. 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)
6. Add the Exchange2013SDKUser user account to local admin group on all mgmt servers.
7. Assign the Exchange2013SDKUser user account to the Operations Manager Operators role.
8. In SCOM create a RunAs account called Exchange2013SDKUser with Exchange Monitoring Account as description.
9. Edit the account and distribute the credential to only the Exchange servers (it should have Health Service in the Name column)
10. Edit the Microsoft Exchange 2013 SDK Monitoring Run As Profile and select the RunAs account you created from the drop down list and choose All targeted objects (I still don't know to this day if that's right or not)
11. Install Kevin's addendum mp to disable the discovery script. You shouldn't have to configure anything, just confirm the overrides. Here's the article: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/kevinholman/2016/03/02/exchange-2013-addendum-mp-for-exchange-2013-and-2016/

That should be it. I did get an alert for the Exchange2013SDKUser not having the 'Allow log on locally' right but that was due to GPO hardening.

Here's some random articles I found too:

Good explanation of how Exch monitoring works:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn195910(v=exchg.150).aspx

Some forum:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/150553a0-c84d-496b-ac3d-e78fda044618/monitoring-exchange-2016-with-scom-2012-r2?forum=operationsmanagermgmtpacks

Do you need the Exchange2013SDKUser account:
http://www.systemcentercentral.com/forums-archive/topic/latest-exchange-2013-mp-experinces/

http://overcast.azurewebsites.net/2014/10/new-exchange-2013-mp-is-out/