The Product Knowledge tab is empty when you open the properties for a rule in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

Consider the following scenario:

• A sealed English management pack is installed on a localized version of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1).
• A rule in this management pack contains English product knowledge.
• You open the rule, and you add non-English company knowledge into this rule. Then, you save the rule into a new management pack.
• You close the properties dialog box of the rule, and then you reopen it.

In this scenario, you expect the Product Knowledge tab to display the English product knowledge. However, the Product Knowledge tab is empty. Additionally, the Company Knowledge tab only displays the newly added information. If you delete the new management pack, the information in the Product Knowledge tab reappears.

Note This problem does not occur when you add company knowledge into a monitor.

To resolve this problem, apply hotfix 953817 to each computer that hosts an Operations Manager Administration Console. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

For more information about a similar problem in Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: For more information about software update terminology, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: