There is a whole slew of updated management packs which Microsoft has released. Information on the recent round of updated management packs is available at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16174.microsoft-management-packs.aspx.

 

The summary of October updated management packs includes:

SQL Server    6.4.1.0 10/14/2013

System Center 2012 Service Manager    7.5.3079.0 10/18/2013

System Center 2012 R2 Service Reporting 7.2.68.0 10/18/2013

Windows Azure Fabric   1.1.11.0 10/18/2013

Windows Azure Pack (WAP)        1.0.0.161 10/18/2013

Windows Azure Pack (WAP) – Web Sites    1.0.0.0 10/18/2013

Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials       7.1.10100.0     10/18/2013

Windows Server Active Directory Certificate Services(ADCS) 2012    7.1.10100.0 10/18/2013

Windows Server Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services(ADLDS) 2008/2008R2/2012R2   6.0.8228.0 10/18/2013

Windows Server Active Directory Rights Management Services (ADRMS) 2012 R2   7.1.10100.0 10/18/2013

Windows Server Active Directory(AD)    6.0.8228.0 10/18/2013

Windows Server Deployment Services 2012 R2      7.1.10100.0 10/18/2013

Windows Server DHCP 2012   6.0.7063.0 10/18/2013

Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 R2  7.1.10104.0 10/18/2013

Windows Server Internet Information Services(IIS) 8    7.0.10165.0 10/18/2013

Windows Server Network Load Balancing 2012/R2   6.0.7055.0 10/18/2013

Windows Server Operating System    6.0.7061.0 10/18/2013

Windows Server Print Server 2012 R2     6.0.7055.0 10/18/2013

Windows Server Remote Access 2012 R2    7.1.10100.0 10/18/2013

Windows Server Remote Access 2012 R2 Multi-Tenant       7.1.10100.0     10/18/2013

Windows Server Update Services 2012 R2 (WSUS)   7.1.10100.0 10/18/2013

Windows Server Web Application Proxy    6.1.7221.0 10/18/2013

Details on the Windows Server Operating System update which I was most interested in are  listed below:

 

Changes in Version 6.0.7043.0

The June 2013 update (version 6.0.7043.0) of the Windows Server Operating System Beta Management Pack included the following changes:

· Added support for Windows Server 2012 R2 monitoring.

· Added filter to discovery for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2.

· Fixed MaxConcurrentAPI issues.

· Changed Cluster Discovery to only discover volumes and resource type “Physical Disk”.

· Added performance rules and reports for Windows Server 2012 R2 that target Windows Server 2012 R2 Operating System.

 

The MaxConcurrentAPI issues item hopefully addresses the ReSearch This kb article that we have available at: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/research-this-kb-max-concurrent-api-reached-alert/. I hope to test this out later this week for confirmation so post if you see that this works with the new version of the management pack!