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Presentation From Today

jsandys — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:13:00 GMT

Here’s my presentation from today’s System Center Virtual User Group . 75%+ was actually a live demo of the new application distribution and management...(read more)

New Direction

jsandys — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:00:51 GMT

After four great years with Catapult Systems, I’ve decided to make a move away from consulting. Catapult was and is a great place to work and this move...(read more)

Inside Central 8 - ConfigMgr has Pete on the run

jsandys — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:51:07 GMT

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...(read more)

ConfigMgr Client Hotfix Versioning

jsandys — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:09:25 GMT

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...(read more)

Mobile Device Management in ConfigMgr 2012

jsandys — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:42:43 GMT

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...(read more)

Talk TechNet Replay

jsandys — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:55:03 GMT

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...(read more)

Two OSD Application Install Issues

jsandys — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:47:46 GMT

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...(read more)

Talk TechNet

jsandys — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:29:22 GMT

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...(read more)

ConfigMgr Application Package Recipes – Adobe Reader X

jsandys — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:14:29 GMT

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...(read more)

OSD and RunOnce

jsandys — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:48:53 GMT

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...(read more)

Installing Fonts During OSD

jsandys — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:38:29 GMT

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....(read more)

TechEd Sessions on Channel 9

jsandys — Sat, 21 May 2011 20:09:18 GMT

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...(read more)

Boot Image Backgrounds From TechEd

jsandys — Mon, 16 May 2011 14:54:51 GMT

For those interested, curious, or mischievous, here are the three boot image backgrounds I used during our (Johan’s and my) pre-conference session yesterday...(read more)

What’s in a Heartbeat

jsandys — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:31:37 GMT

Questions often come on the forums about Heartbeat Discovery including how often should they be configured to run or indirectly, what updates certain resource...(read more)

Accessing OSD Troubleshooting Tools

jsandys — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:59:31 GMT

About the only method for troubleshooting issues in OSD is to drop to a command-prompt (by pressing F8) and then running whatever tool you need; e.g.,...(read more)