Technical

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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

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BiosConfig 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 the past,... 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

Pre-Installation Script

Quite often, when you want to upgrade an application there is a risk that the old version is currently running on the system. For example, when you want to upgrade Microsoft Office 2007 to Office 2010, there is a... Read More

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Driver Matching – PNP Enumeration

During an OS Installation, we want to make sure the computer gets the right drivers for that OS, no more or less. Right? We have changed how that is done in Deploy 4.5 compared to earlier versions. The behavior... Read More

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Things to do before a Capture

Doing a Capture and creating a new image to deploy to your clients is quite straight forward with Specops Deploy (and also a clean MDT, this is not Specops Deploy specific). Just install a client, patch it and then... Read More