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
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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
Multicast slowing down deployments
We have seen at a number of customers that deployments are very slow, taking many hours to complete. The reason is usually incorrect configuration of Multicast in the network. Specops Deploy will use Multicast first, and if it does... Read More
Enabling verbose logging in Specops Products
All Specops components can enable verbose debug logging. This creates a detailed log about what the component does, including any error messages thrown by the component. Logging is enabled in the registry by setting a value of 1 on... Read More