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
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Gpupdate Prof: Read Remote Registry
Gpupdate Professional is a remote management tool that allows a desktop administrator to manage his or her desktop environment from a single location. You essentially get a remote administration center for your client machines through a menu extension in... 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
PowerShell 002
Another day-in-the-lifetype post. We have all been there; systems engineers, developers, hobbyists, tinkers or the like finding ourselves troubleshooting network issues. And the first thing we do? Anyone? PING. Right? We all head to PING or IPConfig or some... Read More
Double Hop Authentication Issue
Have you ever been plagued with the “double hop” authentication issue? I recently had a customer who had this issue and it took a group effort to get it sorted. First things first, what is the double hop? It’s... Read More
Alternate Ways to Update Trusted Sites
Internet Explorer assigns all websites to one of four security zones: Internet, Local Intranet, Trusted Sites or Restricted Sites. The security settings that will be used for that site are dictated by the security zone the site is in.... Read More
Troubleshooting Group Policy events
Walking through the basics in troubleshooting anything is a good process to follow. In a previous post about Group Policy troubleshooting I talked about the four areas where you should start: Install state of Client Side Extension (CSE) GPResult Events... Read More
4 Steps to Troubleshooting Group Policy
A customer called recently who was having some pretty basic troubles with Specops Deploy. What struck a chord with me was how important the simple, basic steps are in troubleshooting Group Policy. Sure, there is plenty of complex stuff... Read More
Can You Sysprep More Than Three Times?
Sysprep has some limitations, like not being able to run this more than three times on the same machine. But this may be exactly what you want to do when you update a captured image with the latest patches... Read More