Jason Sandys

Jason is a senior lead consultant for Catapult Systems and blogs about infrastructure topics with an emphasis on SCCM and operating system deployment. Jason is a MCSE and holds Microsoft certifications in server administration and SCCM.
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Jul15

OSD and SAN Disks

Working with a customer recently, they had an issue using SAN attached disks during Operating System Deployment. They could successfully create and format the SAN attached disk as the D drive during the WinPE portion of the task sequence, but the disk would go offline during the Windows 2008 mini-setup. This was causing a major issue because they were directing the install of the ConfigMgr clien...
Posted by Jason Sandys on Wednesday, 15 Jul 2009 03:52.
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Jul2

HW Inventory and the Database

It is pretty well known how to add custom extensions to the Configuration  Manager hardware inventory using sms_def.mof and configuration.mof. What isn’t well-known or documented (at least not that I could find), was how to check-up on or remove a custom extension from ConfigMgr manually. There are two tools that can help you with deleting the extension: delgrp.exe (available from the SMS 2003 r...
Posted by Jason Sandys on Thursday, 2 Jul 2009 07:59.
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Jul1

Oh My

    Today, I was honored with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for System Center Configuration Manager. I am humbled, excited, encouraged, enthusiastic, and truly honored. A big thank you to anyone and everyone who has supported me over the past years and enabled me to achieve this level of recognition from the company whose pro...
Posted by Jason Sandys on Wednesday, 1 Jul 2009 07:35.
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