Adding change logs to management pack guides

If you've downloaded a recently updated management pack for Ops Mgr 2007, such as the SQL 2000/2005 MP, you might have noticed something new in the accompanying guide. We've begun adding lists of the specific changes made to the updated MP. And as a subsequent update is released, we're adding the new changes while still retaining the previous change log, so you get lists of all changes since the original release.

That's the idea, but of course it isn't feasible to accomplish it for updates that were released before we added changes to the guides. But look for it in management pack updates going forward!*

*Caveat: I can only commit to change logs in guides for MPs from our team, which is currently producing MPs for SQL, Exchange, and various server technologies such as DHCP, DNS, Terminal Services, and so on. That's the extent of my "authority". But another part of my job is to put together guidelines and standards for management pack guides and strongly encourage other teams across the company that produce management packs to incorporate them in their guides. So if you download an update to a management pack (from this point on) and its guide doesn't tell you what changed in the management pack, feel free to email mpgfeed expressing your disappointment. I'll forward it to the appropriate content team, so they'll be aware that customers want it.