Mikael Ingelin

Active Directory

Deployment

Networking

Product specialist from Stockholm, Sweden has worked in the IT industry for over 25 years. For the past 10 years he has been working at Specops Software and before this he was responsible for the complete IT infrastructure at one of Sweden’s largest law firms. He has a broad practical and theoretical experience of managing, architecture and deploying complex IT infrastructures. Extensive knowledge of virtualization, Windows Server, Windows security, Active Directory and Group Policy.

Articles written by Mikael Ingelin

Mar

18

Fix: A required device isn’t connected or can’t be accessed

We have had a few support calls where customers using Specops Deploy OS are running into trouble while PXE booting computers for installation. The error message is as follows and it appears shortly after Windows PE starts to load. When…
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Jun

01

Keep your corporate golden image golden

Trying to keep a golden image up-to-date is a challenge many IT administrators struggle with. But it’s a necessity since updating the image with patches and settings means you shorten the time your users need to wait. There’s a tried…
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Mar

09

Intel I217, I218 and I219 NIC drivers in Windows PE

We receive a lot of support requests from customers that have problems with getting Windows PE to work with new hardware from HP, Dell, and Lenovo. What they all have in common is the Intel I217, I218, and I219 network…
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Mar

03

Upgrade your Specops Deployment servers using Powershell

A few weeks ago, I visited a customer with a large Specops Deploy environment: about 60 sites and one deployment server on each site. Instead of upgrading from the Specops Deploy GUI, I used two PowerShell scripts and the awesome…
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Oct

06

Add users to an Active Directory group based on user attributes

A while back I visited a company to help install Specops Password Reset. They wanted a Group Policy configured for password resets using SMS to be applied to users with a corporate mobile phone. All other users should be reached by…
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Sep

23

How to deploy Java 8

We get a lot of questions from customers wondering how to deploy Java 8 to their client computers. Most people just want to add the Java support and get rid of the automatic update feature so that the clients won’t…
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Sep

16

How to: become the LOCAL SYSTEM account with PsExec

If you are an administrator using Specops Deploy, you may have had the following experience: an application can be deployed without any problems when you are trying it on your local machine but when you try to deploy it you…
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