The New MP Authoring Tools are RELEASED!

At MMS 2012 Microsoft announced TONS of new stuff. Among them a new set of MP authoring tools. However, the release date wasn’t clear back then.

So it’s good news that the new MP Authoring Tools are finally released:

1. System Center 2012 Visio MP Designer
   The System Center 2012 Visio MP Designer—VMPD—is an add-in for Visio 2010 Premium that allows you to visually design a System Center Operations Manager Core Monitoring Management Pack.
   
   To be downloaded from here.
   
   
2. System Center 2012 Visual Studio Authoring Extensions
   The System Center 2012 Visual Studio Authoring Extensions—VSAE—is an add-in for Visual Studio 2010 Professional provides Lifecycle Management Tools to support Management Pack Authoring.
   
   To be downloaded from here.

Michel Kamp, a Dutch fellow MVP has written a good posting about VSAE and why NOT to use it …