Knowledge Base

Many customers have asked me how to deploy Office 365 so I’ve put together this how-to guide showing how to deploy the application Office 365 Click-to-Run with Specops Deploy App. First you need to download Office 2016 deployment tool for Click-to-Run. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219422.aspx Start the deployment tool and it will extract 2 files, one setup.exe file...

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....

The Specops Deploy Server service is unable to create a Service Connection Point (SCP) for Specops Deploy in Active Directory because access was denied. 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. Navigate to...

Application management has never been easier – at least according to us. Our application distribution platform, otherwise known as Specops Deploy / App, leverages existing infrastructure and offers a Group Policy based approach to application management. You’re hooked, and naturally interested in some product reviews. But before you see what everyone is raving about, let’s...

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...

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...

Prerequisites Open the registry on your Specops Deploy App server and find out where the current SQL server is installed. The name of your SQL server can be seen in a key called Connectionstring. Located here: HKLM\software\specopssoft\Specops deploy\server. Edit the key and go to the end of the row. If the database is installed on...

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...

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...

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...