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
PXE-e18: Server response timeout
I was imaging some recently purchased machines with a Specops Deploy client, but no matter which machine we worked on, we would get a PXE-e18 timeout error. No response from Windows Deployment server. All the boot files were present... 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
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
How to find the right drivers in OS deployment
When you are deploying an operating system in Specops Deploy, you start with creating the make, model and OS driver folders tree. Many people want to jump to importing drivers, but it’s important to understand how to find the... 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
Updating the description attribute during Specops Deploy/OS installations
Here’s a great example of the benefits of integrating with standard Microsoft components rather than building stand-alone systems for everything. Happy Specops customer James Prudente of Islip Public Schools wrote us to share how he extended the MDT task... Read More
Access is Denied during OS Deployment
Problem: You receive an “Access is Denied” “Press OK (Enter) to shutdown (automatic shutdown in 10 minutes).” message on your client during an OS Deployment. This happens very early in the process, right when the client should report progress... Read More
WDS Debug Flags
Shay posted a list of Specops Debug keys here. When troubleshooting PXE problems related to OS Deployment it’s also useful to enable these regkeys: From: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/936625/en-us To obtain trace information, you must enable tracing in the Windows Deployment Services server... Read More