Accredited July 26, 1999, during the StorComm tenure. The hardware half of the work the MCSE covered in software: server estates, drive arrays and the physical platform underneath the clinical imaging systems.
Hardware certification alongside a systems certification is unfashionable now, but it is the same instinct that later insisted on designing the data center facility — the power paths, the containment, the rack elevations — rather than only what ran inside it.