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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Feb23

Microsoft.SMS.TSEnvironment

So COM is a huge topic that I can't even imagine scratching the surface of in a single post; MSDN and CodeProject are two great places to learn about COM though. Note also that in many ways, COM has been replaced by .Net so you won't even see many people using it anymore, but it still exists and won't be going anywhere anytime soon. Microsoft.SMS.TSEnvironment is the COM object used by Operating...
Posted by Jason Sandys on Tuesday, 23 Feb 2010 03:56.
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Feb9

OSD App Tree 2.6

What’s New: - Added conditions - Added save to and load from data file ability; aka persistence - Added creation of “is laptop”, “is desktop”, and “is server” TS variables - Added creation of ts variable for the chosen AppSet - Created 64-bit version - Fixed return code bug where pushing Enter to invoke the OK button resulted in a return code of 0xD or tabbing to the OK button and pres...
Posted by Jason Sandys on Tuesday, 9 Feb 2010 08:49.
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Jan30

Distribution Points on Server 2008 and 2008 R2

By now, most folks know that there are some major changes between IIS 6 (included with Windows Server 2003) and IIS 7 (included in Windows Server 2008) and now IIS 7.5 (included in Windows Server 2008 R2). This of course directly relates to and affects BITS enabled distribution points in Configuration Manager 2007 and the underlying IIS configuration because BITS on the server side is essentiall...
Posted by Jason Sandys on Saturday, 30 Jan 2010 02:21.
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Jan30

Client Registration

In my previous post (Client = No) I mentioned that the ConfigMgr Team had recently posted a good article on client registration but I couldn’t find it. MVP extraordinaire Torsten Meringer sent me the link yesterday.  http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/archive/2010/01/20/how-it-works-automatic-client-approval-in-configuration-manager-2007.aspx Good on ya Torsten! ...
Posted by Jason Sandys on Saturday, 30 Jan 2010 09:16.
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Jan28

Client = No

At my current customer we are performing a clean, side-by-side upgrade from their current SMS 2003 infrastructure. We are using client push to install the ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 agent on all client systems. Pretty smooth for the most part with two exceptions. The first issue has to do with automatic uninstallation of the SMS client during the installation of the ConfigMgr agent. On a handful of cl...
Posted by Jason Sandys on Thursday, 28 Jan 2010 03:53.
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Jan7

Inventorying HBA World Wide Names

How to extend hardware inventory in Configuration Manager to add World Wide Names (WWN) from your HBAs: http://ross-family.org/blog/2010/01/06/extend-system-center-configuration-manager-2007-to-collect-fibre-channel-hba-information/...
Posted by Jason Sandys on Thursday, 7 Jan 2010 09:27.
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Nov20

OSD App Tree Bug Squashed

  The nasty OSD App Tree bug has been squashed and version 2.5.1 is ready: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jsandys/pages/osdapptree.aspx....
Posted by Jason Sandys on Friday, 20 Nov 2009 09:08.
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Nov19

Nasty Bug in OSD App Tree 2.5

  It has been brought to my attention that a nasty bug slipped by my rigorous QA process that pretty mush kills OSD App Tree 2.5. I will be sorting this out post-haste and posting an update ASAP....
Posted by Jason Sandys on Thursday, 19 Nov 2009 02:29.
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Nov11

OSD App Tree 2.5

  Announcing the latest version of OSD App Tree: version 2.5. This is a rebranding of OSD App Chooser with a greatly updated look and feel, tooltips, added customization and branding abilities, along with a relatively major new feature: application dependencies. Get it here: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jsandys/pages/osdapptree.aspx. Any and all feedback is welcome; the application depend...
Posted by Jason Sandys on Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009 09:11.
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Nov11

Configuration Manager Service Pack 2

ConfigMgr SP2 is now available (and has been since Oct 22). Time to address the two commonly recurring questions I have seen in the forums and mailing lists? When will the full integrated installation media be available? This refers to a full install of ConfigMgr integrated with SP2 so that you do not have to first install ConfigMgr SP1 and then immediately upgrade to SP2. The answer from rel...
Posted by Jason Sandys on Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009 02:14.
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