In this blog post, we will go over a few scenarios where a client might not PXE boot as expected. If you’re not familiar with the PXE boot functionality used by Specops Deploy, you might want to start here.... Read More
Press release: Specops Software Wins 2016 District Administration Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products
Philadelphia, United States <December 6, 2016> – Specops Deploy, a deployment solution that simplifies the installation of operating systems, software, and applications, has been named a winner of District Administration Magazine Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products for 2016. Nominated by... Read More
Deploy / OS Training Series (part 2): Installation
Welcome to part 2 of the Specops Deploy / OS training series. In part 1, we provided an overview of the environmental preparations. In this post, we will provide some supplemental information that can be used alongside the installation guide.... Read More
Deploy / OS Training Series (part 1): Environmental Preparations
Specops Deploy has been designed from the ground up to utilize and integrate with your existing Windows environment. This offers customers unique advantages such as fast implementation, and native scalability. Most importantly, your Specops Deploy environment will be as... Read More
Default Reinstall: What customers are asking
What data is saved with a default reinstall? A question that customers often ask is what data is saved with a default reinstall? The profile data is my usual answer. Then I had a debate with my colleague Johan... Read More
Add Internet Explorer to Windows 10 start menu
As you may know from a previous blog post, the Windows 10 start menu can be customized. In this post, I will show you how to add Internet Explorer to the start menu. Before you get started, refer to... Read More
Where can I find my driver on WinPE?
You may receive a “A connection to the deployment share couldn’t not be made. The following networking device did not have a driver installed.” wizard error if you import the wrong driver, or are missing the driver on WinPE.... 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
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
Part I – Introduction 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... Read More