Hi all, Just had a customer who was in a bit of a panic due to a reinstall of a computer and where USMT had not saved the users .PST file… “By default, USMT 4.0 migrates PST files that... Read More
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Unable to Start the Specops Deploy Server service
Sometimes when the Specops Deploy Server Service attempts to start you receive an error saying the service is unable to start. The details of the event log error message are as follows ==== Critical error when starting the service.... Read More
WCF and WIF, Delegation and Kerberos Failure
I recently ran into an issue where a client of ours was trying to implement Version 5.1 of Specops Password Reset. The implementation was “Multi-Tiered” in that the Web Component was on a separate server from the Password Reset... Read More
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
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
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