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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...

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...

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,...