We know what it’s like to get blasted with helpdesk calls after every holiday and vacation period. As long as people use passwords, people will forget passwords. Which is why we’ve made resetting passwords even easier with our mobile... Read More
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Multiple Drives Causes a Deployment Error
My colleague Johan had lent his tablet to Mikael, another fellow Product Specialist, to evaluate for a few days. When Mikael started to deploy Windows 8 to the tablet with Specops Deploy, he got the following error: Failure (5456):... Read More
Gpupdate Prof: Read Remote Registry
Gpupdate Professional is a remote management tool that allows a desktop administrator to manage his or her desktop environment from a single location. You essentially get a remote administration center for your client machines through a menu extension in... Read More
Create a secure password you can actually remember
A strong password is long and complex. Adding spaces, upper case, and special characters make it harder to crack. But if you take user behavior into consideration, it is unrealistic to expect them to create and remember long passwords... Read More
Press Release: Specops Password Management now supports passphrases
Passphrase policy increases password security New admin interface improves user experience Stockholm, Sweden – June 17, 2014. Specops Software announced today the latest release of Specops Password Management. The new version now supports the use of passphrases in addition... Read More
Custom MDT Properties
There is a relatively new feature in Specops Deploy/OS that has proven to solve some interesting challenges. There have been a few posts related to the feature showing examples of how it can be used. You can find the... Read More
NIC Configuration Error
Recently, I redeployed a few laptops with Specops Deploy and after boot up I got the following error: Once I hit OK, the computer rebooted into the same error. This unusual error is caused by the system booting into an... Read More
PowerShell 002
Another day-in-the-lifetype post. We have all been there; systems engineers, developers, hobbyists, tinkers or the like finding ourselves troubleshooting network issues. And the first thing we do? Anyone? PING. Right? We all head to PING or IPConfig or some... Read More
What is the value of passwords?
You probably already know that passwords have not been considered the most secure authentication mechanism for the last 20 years or so. So why are they still around? If you think about it, they don’t even show any sign... Read More
Press release: Specops Deploy enables mobile workforce
Specops Deploy 5.0 supports UEFI and Windows 8.1 Mobile workforce can access PC software One deployment solution for Windows XP to Windows 8.1 Stockholm, Sweden – February 4, 2014. Specops Software announced today the release of Specops Deploy 5.0... Read More