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Now here’s an awesome bit of good news! Just announced the OpsMgr R2 Authoring Resource Kit! It’s available at this URL.

I am REALLY excited about this! Why? Well let’s check out all the cool stuff we’re getting:

• Management Pack Best Practices Analyzer
  MPBPA scans management packs for best practice compliance and provides automated resolution for numerous issues. This tool integrates with the Authoring Console.
• Management Pack Spell Checker
  MP Spell Checker checks spelling in management packs to eliminate errors in display strings.
• Management Pack Visio Generator
  MP Visio Generator allows you to generate a class inheritance and class relationship diagram using Microsoft Office Visio.
• Management Pack Diff
  MP Diff shows the differences between two management packs.
• Management Pack Cookdown Analyzer
  MP Cookdown Analyzer identifies workflows which may break cookdown.  Suggestions are provided for how to fix the performance problems.
• All Reference Add-in
  All References Add-in helps find all management pack elements that reference the specific element chosen. For example, the ability to right click a class and find all rules, monitors, overrides, as well as anything else that targets that class is provided. This tool works on most management pack elements.
• Workflow Analyzer
  The Workflow Analyzer provides the ability to statically analyze all types of workflows.  It also allows users to trace workflows running on any Health Service.
• Workflow Simulator
  The Workflow Simulator provides the ability to test certain types of workflows such as discoveries, rules, and monitors without a Management Server and Management Group. Key functionality includes the ability to test workflows as well as view and validate output prior to signing and importing the MP into a Management Group for additional testing.
• Management Packs
  Three management packs which are frequently used as dependencies are provided as part of the tools installation.  These MPs are necessary to allow the Authoring Console to open most MPs available online in the System Center Operations Manager MP Catalog.

This is great news! Finally we’ve all been given the power to generate powerful, extensive management packs. You will be able to build it, diagram it, and most importantly – test it for quality assurance. No longer will we be left guessing if a certain change is better or worse – we’ll be able to find out ourselves!