Sneak preview of sealed MPs using PowerShell

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Today I needed to check if a customer had installed the latest versions of available Management Packs. And there are many tools that can help you with that, but I wanted to know if the downloaded MP files had a newer version than the ones installed in the Management Group.

I could have used  Boris Yanushpolsky’s  MPViewer to check which version the MP file had, but what better than use PowerShell to have a Sneak Preview of the Version of the downloaded MP file Winking smile

Here is the script I created. Just save it to SneakPreviewSealedMPFile.ps1 and have fun.

<#     Use this script to have a sneak preview of the sealed MP file.     You need to have the OpsMgr Console installed for this script to work.     Example usage: .\SneakPreviewSealedMPFile.ps1 "C:\Install\OpsMgr\MPs\SCOMCrossPlatformCU3MP\Microsoft.Unix.LogFile.Library.mp" #>

param($sealedmp)

# Loads an assembly from the application directory or from the global assembly cache using a partial name $assembly = [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.OperationsManager")| out-null

# Create a new .Net Object    $mp = new-object Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Configuration.ManagementPack($sealedmp)

#  Format the result $mp | format-list

 

Result:

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