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Darren James
Darren James is a Senior Product Manager at Specops Software, an Outpost24 company. Darren is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He has worked as a consultant across various organizations and sectors, including central and local governments, retail and energy. His areas of specialization include identity and access management, Active Directory, and Azure AD. Darren has been with Specops Software for more than 12 years and brings his expertise to the support and development of world-class password security and authentication solutions.
Articles written by Darren James
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Feb
17
License import errors in Specops Password Policy
Following a Specops Password Policy installation (and in some cases an upgrade), you will need to import your license. The process is pretty seamless, but there are some errors you may encounter. In this blog post, we’ll walk through some…
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Jul
25
Sysprep Capture of Windows 10 fails
Since November 2015, the ISO of Windows 10 has included more “modern” applications in its default build. This has caused some problems when trying to capture an image using SYSPREP. Some of the applications are 3rd party such as Candy…
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Jun
19
Cannot Deploy Applications via Normal Group Policy Software Installation (GPSI)
A client ran into an issue that prevented them from deploying any application (including our Specops Deploy CSE) via normal Microsoft Windows GPSI. This was happening on a Windows 2008 R2 Domain and Windows 7 x86 clients, but I believe it could…
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Jun
02
Why won’t my WinPE image connect to my deployment server anymore?
If your WinPE image will no longer connect to your deployment server, it may be because of the following: A driver has been added to the boot image that isn't Windows PE compatible, the boot image has become corrupt, or…
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Dec
11
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. The…
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