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Detect OS Architecture with Specops Deploy
Problem: Specops Deploy CSE has problem installing applications on Windows XP 32bit.But working fine on Windows 7 x86 and x64.This is logged in Event Log: at...
View ArticleNo working network card in winpe during deployment.
I ran into a somewhat strange problem at a customer last week.They were running Windows XP on a virtual machine (VMWare) and we tried to reinstall Windows XP on it with OS Deploy. It couldn't find any...
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Recreate the OSDeploy Multicast Stream
If you have deleted your Multicast Stream and would like to use Multicast again for your OS Deployments, this is how to re-create the Stream.Just start PowerShell on a computer where you have installed...
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WDS Multicast Configuration
When I'm doing a new Specops OS Deploy installation at a customer I'm always asking if they will be using Multicast and if they have it enabled/configured in the network.And I'm also recommending our...
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Deploying Hotfixes with Deploy?
I had a need to deploy this fix: Unexpectedly slow startup or logon process in Windows Server 2008 R2 or in Windows 7 in our production environment today. Microsoft does not support deploying hotfixes...
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SelfDeploy Tool
One of our customers wanted a solution where their users could start a migration from Windows XP to Windows 7 from within windows, and without being Local Administrator or contacting helpdesk. Our...
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Self Service Portal - Preview
We have listened to our customers and are soon shipping Specops Self Service Portal. It's a portal where the user can request applications without contacting the helpdesk, with a built-in workflow for...
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Self Service Portal - ManagedBy Feature - Preview
The Specops Self Service Portal makes it possible for the user to request and deploy applications or other services to users and computers without contacting the helpdesk. But for a user to be able to...
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Multiple image servers error
Problem: When starting Specops Deploy / OS Admin Tools you are getting an error message;Multiple image servers (servername1, servername2) found.Specify the name of the server to use on the registry...
View ArticleBiosConfig Tool
This is hopefully old news for our existing and longtime customers, but might be useful for some of the new ones.If you have not been using MDT, RIS, SCCM or any other similar deployment solution in...
View ArticleHow to ... Handle Application Deployment GPOs
A few times per month, I'm being asked if the customer should use one GPO for all their Application Deployments or one GPO's for each deployment?As with almost everything in life, it depends... And...
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Owner of a computer as Local Admin
I helped a company last week to setup a solution where the users could request to become local admin of their computers.Generally I'm against users being local admin. That's XP style ... And nowadays a...
View ArticleMulticast Optimizations
Multicasting is a great technology when it works. And from my experience doing deployments in quite a lot of different environments in the last couple of years, it seems to work in about 50% of the...
View ArticleUnsupported Sysprep scenarios
Specops Deploy is using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, which is using Sysprep to capture a client when doing a new image. There are some scenarios that Microsoft does NOT support when doing sysprep as...
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Cannot Deploy Applications via Normal Group Policy Software Installation (GPSI)
I had an issue with a client this week where they could not deploy any application (including our Specops Deploy CSE) via normal Microsoft Windows group policy software installation. This was happening...
View ArticleFailing Specops Deploy package
A customer had a problem with a App Deploy package that's not working.He says it works fine when executing manually with runas administrator, but it's not working when using Specops Deploy, on a...
View ArticleAccess is denied when importing a OS to Specops Deploy
My colleague Darren James ran into a interesting problem where a customer could not import a OS to Specops Deploy / OS. Problem: When doing an import of a Windows 7 OS from DVD into Specops Deploy OS....
View ArticleWCF and WIF, Delegation and Kerberos Failure
I recently ran into an issue where a client of ours was trying to implement Version 5.1 of Specops Password Reset. The implementation was "Multi-Tiered" in that the Web Component was on a separate...
View ArticlesoPrincipalExists
I got a problem installing Specops Inventory / Specops Reporting at a cutomer today. Debug Log and Eventlog was comaplaining about soPrincipalExists. This is the exact error message in...
View ArticleUnable to Start the Specops Deploy Server service
Sometimes when the Specops Deploy Server Service attempts to start you receive an error saying the service is unable to start. The details of the event log error message are as follows====Critical...
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