Have you ever been plagued with the “double hop” authentication issue? I recently had a customer who had this issue and it took a group effort to get it sorted. First things first, what is the double hop? It’s... Read More
Deployment
4 Steps to Troubleshooting Group Policy
A customer called recently who was having some pretty basic troubles with Specops Deploy. What struck a chord with me was how important the simple, basic steps are in troubleshooting Group Policy. Sure, there is plenty of complex stuff... Read More
Can You Sysprep More Than Three Times?
Sysprep has some limitations, like not being able to run this more than three times on the same machine. But this may be exactly what you want to do when you update a captured image with the latest patches... Read More
Specopssoft.OSDeploy/ImageServer Did Not Receive a reply within the configured timeout (00:30:00)
When publishing a new driver in Specops Deploy OS you may receive the following error message: Specopssoft.OSDeploy/ImageServer did not receive a reply within the configured timeout (00:30:00). This happens when the publish takes longer than the expected 30 minutes.... Read More
Unable 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 error when starting the service.... Read More
Failing 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 computer target. I asked him... Read More
WDS Multicast Configuration
When I’m doing a new Specops OS Deploy installation for 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 customers to use Windows... Read More
How to send an email for completed OS installs from Specops Deploy / OS
Our friends Johan and Mikael over at Deployment Research wrote an article a while back on sending an email from MDT 2010 when an OS Deployment completes. Some of our customers have asked if this is possible with Specops Deploy... Read More
Part II – The Fully Automated Capture and Deployment Setup
Part I – Introduction OU Structure The first thing we need to do, is to get the Base OS (Windows XP and Windows 7) to install on two clients with the latest Patches. We do this at first semi-automatically... Read More
Part I – The fully automated Capture and Deployment Setup
Purpose: Create a fully automated Capture process and Deploy that image automatically to clients on a regular basis. For example, update the client images once per month with the latest security patches. Or you can use parts of this... Read More