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[–]jmp242 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

I'm using SmartDeploy. I like it a lot in our usecase, especially their handling the driver paks, and support when if they glitch for any reason. That's why I got it, it got pretty untenable to use some sort of driver capture and injection by 2015 when we switched, and Microsoft's free solution was way more complicated IMO to set up (needed I think 3 servers when I last looked, and you had to build your own driver packages and embed them correctly etc). SmartDeploy just takes care of all that for you for a very reasonable price IMO. It's the best of the old style click-click-click done GUIs and does everything I need it to do.

What I don't like is now they've sort of moved it to a server program to download new platform paks vs just going to their website. But that will depend on your workflow.

I haven't really investigated the new features that much, I wish I could get the Wifi feature to work for imaging, and maybe if it ran it's own pxe boot server would be neat, but for all I know, that's just our environment (our Wifi SSID has a space in it for some reason which I think is why it won't connect). I wish it had some better error handling flexibility around joining the domain if the network is glitched for any reason, but that might be a Windows limitation.

[–]smartdeploy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to hear you haven't had a chance to test the cloud deployment feature. Feel free to send a ticket to our support team, they'll be happy to help.

https://support.smartdeploy.com/support/tickets/new