Some reminders for myself of some recent articles, posts etc about MP authoring.
1) This article is a guideline to all developers out there who want to develop customizable providers for CIM Servers to instrument management assets on Cross Platforms, in particular any one of the flavors of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or any UNIX based Operating Systems. Found here.
2) Great step-by-step article from Jonathan Almquist [MSFT] on how to create a computer group and configure groupcalc in the MP authoring console. Found here.
3) Great step-by-step article from Jonathan Almquist [MSFT] on how to create an instance group and configure groupcalc in the MP authoring console. Found here.
4) Authoring Custom Templates and Writing Custom UI. Found here.