SCOM Trick 18 – Removing management packs

Once in a while you will need to remove a management pack. Either because you are no longer monitoring whatever that management pack was for, or a new version of the same management pack requires you to remove the previous version first.
Well removing a management pack is not that difficult in principle. Check out the following page:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc974489.aspx
However, in some cases you will find that you have used references to this management pack from other management packs. This can be due to setting overrides or by using objects of a class in this MP to a dashboard in another management pack, or perhaps you have used it somewhere else.
Here is write-up by Jonobie Ford about removing dependencies on the default management pack (which is one of the most used management packs for setting overrides UNFORTUNATELY):
http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2007/05/03/removing-dependencies-on-the-default-management-pack.aspx
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