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Jason Sandys

Jason is a managing consultant and local practice lead for Catapult Systems; he blogs about infrastructure topics with an emphasis on all things SCCM. A Microsoft MVP, Jason holds multiple Microsoft certifications, and is a book author and frequent presenter at events.
 


Sep 232011

Inside Central 8 - ConfigMgr has Pete on the run

Here’s a link to recent podcast I did on various topics including ConfigMgr 2012 (of course). http://systemcenterpodcast.libsyn.com/inside-central-8-config-mgr-has-pete-on-the-run?sf2214975=1 ...[Read more]
Published: 9/23/2011  2:50 PM | 0  Comments | Categories:

Sep 162011

ConfigMgr Client Hotfix Versioning

Time to finally transfer my notes from two big yellow stickies to a blog post. Basically, while trying to do a build & capture of Windows 7 SP1 recently, I was trying to apply every available (to my knowledge) client hotfix to the ConfigMgr age ...[Read more]
Published: 9/16/2011  1:09 PM | 0  Comments | Categories:

Sep 092011

Mobile Device Management in ConfigMgr 2012

Mobile Device Management is a very popular topic in enterprises as of late and so the question of what (exactly) ConfigMgr 2012 will be able to manage has been coming up a lot lately also. (Note that this information is current to the best of my kn ...[Read more]
Published: 9/9/2011  12:41 PM | 0  Comments | Categories:

Aug 312011

Talk TechNet Replay

Here’s a link to the replay for my recent appearance on Talk TechNet: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=1032490798&role=attend&pw=4F839DB8. We discussed a lot things including private clouds, System Center, Elmo, and of cou ...[Read more]
Published: 8/31/2011  10:54 PM | 0  Comments | Categories:

Aug 312011

Two OSD Application Install Issues

Here’s a quick synopsis of two issues I had at my recent customer installing some “packaged” applications during OSD. The first was error code 0x80042000 from an InstallShield installation package. This is neither a standard Windows error code or a ...[Read more]
Published: 8/31/2011  10:48 PM | 0  Comments | Categories:

Aug 222011

Talk TechNet

My second appearance on Microsoft’s Talk TechNet is this Wednesday at 9AM Pacific time. Sign up for Episode 53 and have some questions ready. And in case Johan forgot from last time, I’m just shy of 2m tall, really about 198cm. ...[Read more]
Published: 8/22/2011  12:29 PM | 0  Comments | Categories:

Jul 152011

ConfigMgr Application Package Recipes – Adobe Reader X

So was Adobe sucking up to Apple when they decided to use the roman numeral for the version number? Anyway, here’s another common package recipe that I see folks struggling with all the time. <Annoyance>There is no such thing as Acrobat Read ...[Read more]
Published: 7/15/2011  12:15 PM | 0  Comments | Categories:

Jun 252011

OSD and RunOnce

I recently stumbled onto a somewhat major issue during OSD that is the result of a fundamental (bad) assumption made by many including Windows itself and Internet Explorer. That assumption is that at some point during the deployment of Windows (Wind ...[Read more]
Published: 6/25/2011  9:54 AM | 1  Comment | Categories:

Jun 232011

Installing Fonts During OSD

Here’s a simple little script to install fonts during OSD. Note that this is an example of not doing any manual work during OSD: manual work is un-IT. A quick web search, using Bing of course (Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Install Fonts Using a Scri ...[Read more]
Published: 6/23/2011  1:46 PM | 0  Comments | Categories:

May 212011

TechEd Sessions on Channel 9

All (or at least most) of the TechEd North America 2011 sessions are online at Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011?sort=rating&direction=asc#tab_sortBy_rating. A quick filter gives you all the Identity and Manage ...[Read more]
Published: 5/21/2011  3:09 PM | 0  Comments | Categories:

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