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
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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
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
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 and then add the... 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
Windows 7 Screen Resolution defaults to 1024×768 – Alternate/proper way to do it
A colleague asked me why I didn’t use the UI to change Screen Resolution in my previous post? Well, I usually do. And I intended to show how to do it in that post, but there is a minor... Read More
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
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
OS Deployment failing due to left over junk from MDT – Part I
An installation done via OS Deploy may stop with an error stating something like (sorry, I don’t have the exact error message available); Title: ” Media not found “ Message: “Please insert the CD, DVD or USB to complete... Read More
Setting NetBootGuid with Specops Pre-Stage Tool
When a computer is PXE Booting, the only thing it can identify itself with, to the WDS Server, is the GUID or MAC address. Those are then used to do a search in AD to find out; – which... Read More