“Unable to find required management pack in search paths.” - Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Console

This happened to me a while ago and figured I would share with the community. I was happily creating management packs when all of a sudden I kept getting prompted with the following window.

The management pack name wasn’t always System.Library

No matter what I did I was unable to open the console, the only option was to quit.  I logged on as another user and it worked fine. I knew this had to something to do with the Search Paths for references as the error occurred right after I added a reference.  By leveraging PROCMON on my other user account I found that as I added a search path the References string key was added.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\3.0\Authoring\Settings

To resolve this error just delete the References key and relaunch the authoring console.  In my situation it was the path c:\temp\managementpacks that caused the issue, by changing the names in the registry key to other strings it worked just fine.

 

Hope this helps someone else out there.

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Excellent! thanks
• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Yes, it helped - thanks!
• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Worked like a charm.
  
  Thank you!
• Anonymous
  March 04, 2015
  Very usefull for me !
  Thanks a lot
• Anonymous
  September 01, 2015
  Thanks! Worked for me. Shouldn't have been anything wrong with the paths in the key, but deleting them did the trick.