AccessIt – Unattended Install

We use AccessIt for library management in several of our schools. Aside from running on JAVA it’s an excellent piece of software.In the past, we’ve always had to deploy it by having physical (or virtual) access to the machine. However, now have a process for unattended install.We use PDQ Deploy – Read more

By chrisbradbury, ago

api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll

This has been a minor annoyance for a while now; how some machines work with a certain piece of software (Skype, Cura, Wacom Tablet Drivers to name some of the examples we’ve had) and some don’t. They all give an error of The Program can’t start because api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing on machines running Read more

By chrisbradbury, ago

WDS, Windows 7 and USB3

For a while now we’ve been building machines using WDS, a master image and filtered drivers. Each machine model has a WDS Driver Group which is filtered by Model and Applicability set to Driver packages matching client hardware. For a long time, using this approach, USB3 drivers haven’t been installing at all. Read more

By chrisbradbury, ago