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Many customers have been asking us how to upgrade the Specops Deploy client side extensions with Group Policy Software Installation. To make life easier for our beloved customers I decided to write a step-by-step guide on how to do this. Enjoy! Step 1: Create a new folder for the new client side extensions Go to...

Problem During start up, the computer hangs on the “Applying Specops Deploy Policy” for a few minutes. Possible solution The message “Applying Specops Deploy Policy” is a message that is shown until Windows decides to show something else. In other words, we can’t be 100% sure which GPO process that is causing this. Our suggestion is...

In this blog post I will walkthrough how you can use Specops Deploy to use an English (en-US) image in different parts of your organization with additional languages like Swedish or German. Here’s what you will need: Specops Deploy version 6.2.17129.1 or later MDT version 6.3.8443.1000 ADK version 10.1.15063.0 Windows 10 1703.1 enterprise x64 media...

Specops Deploy is using BITS to transfer files from the Server to the Client before installation. To speed up the transfer it’s possible to increase the priority of the BITS Job by modifying the Deployments.XML file. It does happen sometime that for example Windows Update is using BITS and Specops Deploy have to wait for...

Possible cause The client is not installing the application because it is not a member of the security group. The share where the application files are located do not have permissions for Authenticated users. Possible solution Add the client to the group. Rerun GPUPDATE to install the application.

To enable users to bypass their lack of administrative rights, many applications, such as Dropbox, Spotify, and OneDrive, are installed in the AppData profile directory. For administrators, this is a security hole, and for users, it is an inconvenience. Take the OneDrive sync client for example (the Next Generation Sync Client which has merged the...

The Specops Deploy Server service is unable to create a Service Connection Point (SCP) for Specops Deploy in Active Directory because access was denied. Possible cause The SVC_SD (Deploy Service Account) does not have the correct permissions on the computer object of the feedback server in AD. Possible solution Open Active Directory Users and Computers....

This is a quite specific scenario which quite few companies may run into. A company is using their own Wrapper-Script for all installations and ran into some problems where all files did not exist in the Deploy Cache. Which caused failed installations (missing files etc). To reset the deployment on a client, clean up the...

I recently upgraded my home environment to Deploy 5.0 to take advantage of deploying Windows 8.1 clients. If you are a Deploy customer that has already done this, you already know that you need to upgrade Microsoft Deployment Tool Kit from 2012 Update 1 to 2013. In an effort to save time, I did an in...

This may not be the best title for this post. Deleting Orphaned Deployments may be the solution, but it is surely not the problem. The technique described here is something that you can use in other situations where an XML file is involved. The scenario that drove the writing of this post is, of course,...