I recently saw an interesting mail thread about how does one figure out which MPs will work for agentless monitoring and which MPs will not. The interesting part is that at the MP level there is no way to declare whether it is designed for agentless monitoring...

A number of people have asked for the SDK documentation to be downloadable in addition to being on MSDN. You can now download the SDK documentation and use it offline. Here is the link to the download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx...

The long awaited cluster management pack for Windows 2003 is finally ready. The MP package contains the management pack files as well as a QFE. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ac7f42f5-33e9-453d-a923-171c8e1e8e55&DisplayLang...

Attached is a script that takes a group and puts all the computers in the group (as well as the health service and the healthservice watcher) into maintenance mode. Here is how you can run the script from the command line to start or stop maintenance...