by Andrzej Lipka and friends, allows putting a group of objects into maintenance mode on a scheduled basis (up to 10 groups). Download our user guide HERE.

by Anders Bengtsson, this management pack allows security groups in Active Directory to be used to discover classes in Operations Manager 2007. For example if you already have your servers divied into security groups in Active Directory, you can use these groups-become-classes for targeting discovery and monitoring.

by Kevin Holman (MS), this management pack using a SQL database as the CMDB source for populating OpsMgr groups, instead of AD.

by Brian McDermott (MS), this MP uses Powershell to allow creating a new Notification Subscription targeted at future occurrences of a specific alert.

by Matt Goedtel(MS), this management pack augments the existing Active Directory management pack by monitoring the following specific components and subsystems that Active Directory relies on, which are not captured in the current version, including issues with site boundaries, time synchronization and FRS-related issues.

from SCF (Neale Brown), This MP uses a 3rd party DLL to check the response of a DNS server. This can be used to check the availablity of external DNS servers.

by Scott Vintinner, this simple “proof-of-concept” management pack to monitor some of my Cisco routers. The MP is configured to discover a Cisco 2600, 2800, and 2801 router. Currently it will monitor up to 4 interfaces for up/down port status, errors and incoming/outgoing bps. Detailed description HERE.

by Neale Brown, Derek Harkin and Pete Zerger, this MP performs nightly backup of unsealed MPs to a folder on the Management Server using an embedded Powershell script, as well as a version archive of X days previous backups as defined by the user. User configurable settings are?exposed as overridable parameters in the timed event rule executing the script.?This is an great update to version 1.0 by Derek Harkin. How-to and screenshots for this MP are available HERE.