If you are ready to install Windows 10, stop for a minute to find out how you customize the Windows 10 start menu. You will save yourself time and avoid a major hassle for your end users. We love... Read More
Press release: Specops Software Supports Deployment of Windows 10
Specops Deploy 6.0 supports deployment of all current Windows operating systems, including Windows 10. Specops Deploy 6.0 now available Supports deployment of Windows 10 Supports Windows Defender management Stockholm, Sweden – October 20, 2015. Specops Software announced today support... 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
How to deploy Java 8
We get a lot of questions from customers wondering how to deploy Java 8 to their client computers. Most people just want to add the Java support and get rid of the automatic update feature so that the clients... Read More
How to: become the LOCAL SYSTEM account with PsExec
If you are an administrator using Specops Deploy, you may have had the following experience: an application can be deployed without any problems when you are trying it on your local machine but when you try to deploy it... Read More
Reimage the entire lab remotely with zero touch deployment
Computer labs require daily or weekly refreshes. Wouldn’t it be nice to remotely reinstall OS, distribute applications, lockdown lab computers against viruses without physically going to every computer when you have to do something? Sometimes you just don’t have... Read More
Orphaned Deployments
I have been known to say “Group Policy comes without a this may be a career limiting configuration change you are about to make, are you sure!? message.” You can do a lot of things with GP that can cause... Read More
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
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