Updated Windows Server and Terminal Services Ops Mgr MPs

New Management Packs for Windows Servers (2000, 2003 and 2008) and Terminal Services (2000, 2003 and 2008) were also released in late July.

Update your Windows Server MP first, get it here, which is version 6.0.6278.22. 

What’s New

The following features are new in this release of the Windows Server Operating System Management Pack:

• Introduced support for Windows Server 2008.
• Added version specific notations to the names of the performance collection rules to reduce ambiguity, specifically when search for rules by name.
• Added a new task to leverage the new “Admin” switch of the remote desktop connection tool.  More detail is provided in the “Troubleshooting” section.

Changes in This Update

The update to the June 2008 version of the Windows Server Operating System Management Pack includes the following changes:

• Updated the logical drive discoveries to omit mapped network drives.
• Addressed an issue with the Logical Disk Free Space to prevent it from looking like the thresholds were set incorrectly.
• The state of the configuration of a server now reflects the state of its operating system as well.
• Fixed an issue with the Server Service Configuration Health monitor which prevented it from ever generating an alert.

You can get the Terminal Services updated MP here, which is also version 6.0.6278.22.  No “fixes” listed in this MP, but it does add support for 2008 based Terminal Servers.

What’s New

The following features are new in this release of the Terminal Services Management Pack specific to Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008:

• TS Gateway
• TS Session Broker
• TS Web Access

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