Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Two new MPs released

In the last few days two new/updated MPs have been released:

  1. Exchange 2007 MP, version 6.0.6702.0 (For OpsMgr R2 only!)
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    To be downloaded from here. I have extracted the MP Guide which can be downloaded from here.

  2. Exchange 2003 MP, version 6.0.6702.0
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    To be downloaded from here. I have extracted the MP Guide which can be downloaded from here.

As goes with every new/updated MP, RTFM it first than test drive it BEFORE putting it into production…

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Today I tested the new AD MP.

Immediately after importing it, I received a ton of 10102 events from all domain controllers. All of them were related to some DRA performance counters that could not be collected (9 events for 9 different perf counters per minute).

Example:
In PerfDataSource, could not resolve counter DirectoryServices, DRA Outbound Bytes Total/sec, NTDS. Module will be unloaded.

One or more workflows were affected by this.

Workflow name: Microsoft.Windows.Server.AD.DomainController.DRAOutboundBytesTotal.Collection

However the DRA counters could be collected by the previous version of the MP and are visible in perfmon.

Additionally I received warnings with event id 1000 from all DC's every 10 seconds stating:
AD CPU Overload : The script AS_LSASS_CPU.vbs failed to retrieve the number of CPU cores. The error was:
The error returned was: 'Object required' (0x1A8)

After reverting to the previous version all errors went away.

Just wanted to share my findings ...

Bojan said...

Same errors in my test environment, everything was working ok with previous MP version, maybe a bug in 6.0.7050?

Marnix Wolf said...

Hi.

Thanks for visiting my blog. It turned out there were some issues with this MP. So Microsoft has pulled it and released on the 4th of november 2009 an update (version ) for it.

Found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=008F58A6-DC67-4E59-95C6-D7C7C34A1447&displaylang=en&displaylang=en


Also blogged about it: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2009/11/update-ad-mp-available.html


Best regards,
Marnix Wolf