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    Hello,

     cannot access the "Import of management Pack" from the catalog or from the disk ...

    The Microsoft Management Pack Catalog Web Service cannot be contacted at this time. There is either a problem with your Internet connection or the Web service is offline. Any idea?

    Thanks,

    Dom

    System Center Operations Manager 2007 / System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 / Forefront Client Security / Forefront Identity Manager

    Wednesday, January 5, 2011 12:38 AM

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    A quick workaround for this is to download the management packs to a machine which has internet access and then import them to OpsMgr from there. The advantages of downloading the MPs to disk first have been stated by Kevin Holman as:

    1.  You need to manually download and read the guide FIRST.
    2.  You need to ensure you have handled any "before you import" activities from the guide.
    3.  The MP might include unsealed MP's which are required, and unless this has changed - those do not come through the UI download.
    4.  The new MP might not be upgrade compatible with an existing MP in your environment and the UI will not tell you this.

    Cheers

    Graham

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    • Proposed as answer by Dan Rogers Wednesday, January 5, 2011 8:14 PM
    • Marked as answer by Yog Li Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:28 AM
    Wednesday, January 5, 2011 9:54 AM
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    no, there's a question if you want to check the catalog to check for dependancies or something. Just say no and it won't check. To me this is an annoying feature anyway. i want to have a checkmark here so i never get the question again and immediately go to disk as i don't have direct internet access anyway.

    Rob Korving
    http://jama00.wordpress.com/
    • Proposed as answer by Graham Davies Friday, January 7, 2011 12:25 PM
    • Marked as answer by Yog Li Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:28 AM
    Thursday, January 6, 2011 2:02 AM
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    As Rob has said, you should get a prompt asking you if you would like to access the catalog for dependencies. If you just click NO then no attempt will be made to access the catalog.

    There is no need to check for dependencies here - if you try and import a management pack and dependencies are missing then the import will fail and will tell you which MPs are required. You can then download them manually and import them first.

    Cheers

    Graham 

    View OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/
    • Proposed as answer by Graham Davies Friday, January 7, 2011 12:25 PM
    • Marked as answer by Yog Li Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:28 AM
    Friday, January 7, 2011 12:25 PM

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    like the message says, no connection to the website. Could be a proxy blocking.
    Rob Korving
    http://jama00.wordpress.com/
    Wednesday, January 5, 2011 7:29 AM
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    A quick workaround for this is to download the management packs to a machine which has internet access and then import them to OpsMgr from there. The advantages of downloading the MPs to disk first have been stated by Kevin Holman as:

    1.  You need to manually download and read the guide FIRST.
    2.  You need to ensure you have handled any "before you import" activities from the guide.
    3.  The MP might include unsealed MP's which are required, and unless this has changed - those do not come through the UI download.
    4.  The new MP might not be upgrade compatible with an existing MP in your environment and the UI will not tell you this.

    Cheers

    Graham

    View OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/
    • Proposed as answer by Dan Rogers Wednesday, January 5, 2011 8:14 PM
    • Marked as answer by Yog Li Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:28 AM
    Wednesday, January 5, 2011 9:54 AM
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    I always download them to disk but even when doing this I am getting the error if I try to import "Add from disk" from the SCOM Console.

    there is a try to access the catalogf

    before giving me access to the disk itself...

    Thanks,
    Dom

    Operations Manager is attempting to connect to the Microsoft Management Pack Catalog Web Service. If you do not wish to connect to the Web service, click Cancel to return to the beginning of the wizard.

    System Center Operations Manager 2007 / System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 / Forefront Client Security / Forefront Identity Manager
    Thursday, January 6, 2011 12:08 AM
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    no, there's a question if you want to check the catalog to check for dependancies or something. Just say no and it won't check. To me this is an annoying feature anyway. i want to have a checkmark here so i never get the question again and immediately go to disk as i don't have direct internet access anyway.

    Rob Korving
    http://jama00.wordpress.com/
    • Proposed as answer by Graham Davies Friday, January 7, 2011 12:25 PM
    • Marked as answer by Yog Li Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:28 AM
    Thursday, January 6, 2011 2:02 AM
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    As Rob has said, you should get a prompt asking you if you would like to access the catalog for dependencies. If you just click NO then no attempt will be made to access the catalog.

    There is no need to check for dependencies here - if you try and import a management pack and dependencies are missing then the import will fail and will tell you which MPs are required. You can then download them manually and import them first.

    Cheers

    Graham 

    View OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/
    • Proposed as answer by Graham Davies Friday, January 7, 2011 12:25 PM
    • Marked as answer by Yog Li Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:28 AM
    Friday, January 7, 2011 12:25 PM
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    I don't get any prompt when I click "Add from Disk" it start running and fails...

    Thanks,

    DOm

    System Center Operations Manager 2007 / System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 / Forefront Client Security / Forefront Identity Manager
    Saturday, January 8, 2011 5:49 AM