SCOM 2016 Console ‘An object of class ManagementPackFolder with ID xxxxxxx’– SC 2016 bug – FIX

EDIT: an unofficial fix is appended below 🙂

 

Fast publish…

So, if any of you are using SCOM 2016 and have recently deployed the console, you may be getting this error below:

 

An object of class ManagementPackFolder with ID <MP GUID>

On the sick client, you will find the following in event viewer

 

Essentially, it’s a clash locally with the SCSM (Service Manager) Console..

Uninstall SCSM and SCOM Console 2016 will work immediately.

 

This one wasn’t all that hard to work out as the exact same experience happened for System Center 2012…

Not ideal as we use both SCSM and SCOM as core business applications so hopefully a bug fix will be out soon.

 

Will post when a fix is produced.

 

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And the fix:

 

1) Add a system environment variable named DEVPATH which contains the folder path of the Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Core.dll. For example, in my case it is C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2016\Operations Manager\Console\SDK Binaries.

2) Add the following entry in the config file C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2016\Operations Manager\Console\Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Monitoring.Console.exe.config)

<configuration>
...
<runtime>

<developmentMode developerInstallation="true" />

</runtime>
...
</configuration>

(add the <developmentmode> section to the existing runtime section.)

 

3) You may need to restart the computer (I didn’t though and it worked straight away)

 

And with that, balance is restored….

Enjoy!
Dan