How To: Monitoring Exchange 2007 with OpsMgr R2 and the native MP

Rui Silva, an Exchange MVP, is writing a very good and detailed HOWTO guide about monitoring Exchange 2007 with OpsMgr R2 and the native MP. This guide will consist out of 6 parts. I will update this posting when a new part is published.

Part   I: Introduction, the 11 needed steps;
Part  II: Covering the first 3 steps of the 11 necessary;
Part III: How to enable Exchange 2007 server role discovery, customizing the MP;
Part IV: How to configure synthetic transactions;
Part  V: How to configure monitoring of SCR/CCR Log Shipping and Unified Messaging servers;
Part VI: Migration options for the previous version of the converted Exchange management pack, common troubleshooting and reporting.