Knowledge Base

When opening the Specops Deploy / APP admin tool on the server the following error message is being received: License Information Failed to communicate with the Specops Deploy Server. Make sure that the server is installed correctly and running. Detailed error message: The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable. Possible cause Proxy settings...

The admin account must have the permissions ”Edit settings”, ”Delete” and ”Modify” on the Specops Deploy App GPO that is being used. If the admin should have access to Specops Deploy Feedback data the account must be added to the group “Specops Deploy Feedback Users”. The group can be found locally on the Specops Deploy App server....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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 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,...