SCOM Trick 26 – Seal a management pack

When you are doing a bit of management pack authoring you will notice that you get to a point where you will want to seal your management pack. For instance because you want to reference the objects of it from another management pack.
Here is a TechNet article on how to do that:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh219340.aspx
I have used Jonathan’s method a number of times and its working perfectly:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/jonathanalmquist/archive/2008/08/19/seal-a-management-pack.aspx
Richard has also written a tool to do it with. The MP Sealer. However the link that was listed here doesn’t work anymore.
Also the SCOM Authoring console will provide functionality for sealing management packs you create. However you still need to create your key pair. David Allen explains how:
http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb/archive/2009/07/21/sealing-a-management-pack-in-r2.aspx

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