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  Useful Scripts
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  We have created a dedicated repository for community scripts: https://github.com/FOGProject/fog-community-scripts. All scripts in this repository are under the MIT license, and contain a brief README describing basic usage.
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  Organizations Using FOG
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  @Tom-Elliott said in Organizations Using FOG: Organization Name: Davidson County Sheriff’s Office Location: Nashville, TN Approximate Number of systems: 750 How long: since 2012
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  Requests for Wiki Access <--- ASK HERE
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  @iyoung good
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  Please do not cross post on multiple forums with the same question
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  This seems to [url=https://www.gclubtg.com/]gclub[/url] be happening more often lately [url=https://www.sbobet168.com/]sbobet[/url] than in the past.
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  If I create a fog server, can I push an image to a friends computer remotely via the internet if he has ipv4 pxe option in his bios?
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  @Razuel remote management is what it sounds like. Public facing meaning the fog server is accessible from the internet. While technically possible to image, it really wouldn’t be the best experience. By remotely managed we simply mean you can change the host name, tell it to join a domain, configure printers, set up snapins, and that kind of thing. I wouldn’t recommend imaging over the internet as it would be constrained by your internet upload speed and the remote sides download speed. Usually download speed is fine anywhere but upload is typically limited much more so.
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  FOG : Main sites and Branches organisation
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  @george1421 Thanks, I’ll give a look at it this weekend.
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  How to change how many clients i can image
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  @george1421 nevermind i found what i was looking for…this is all i wnated to do FOG image queue size too small By default, FOG unicast is set to image no more than 10 machines at a time. Other devices will be placed in a queue and wait for another machine to complete. If you want to increase this queue number, you have to do it in two places. First, under Storage Management > Select your Default Member > Change the figure in Max Clients to the desired number. Second, under FOG Settings > Expand General Settings > Change the figure in FOG_QUEUESIZE to the desired number.
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  Deploying Windows Server?
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  @THEMCV said in Deploying Windows Server?: Can feature installations be set with Snapins? While I don’t use snapins, features can be added with powershell such as in: Import-Module ServerManager Add-WindowsFeature FS-NFS-Service
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  image to SSD, do I need to do anything special, or am I over thinking this.
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  @Roger-Saffle There is nothing you need to do with fog, its your final destination OS that has control of the disk once it is launched. FOG Image format wise there is no difference between a HDD, SSD, or NVMe drive once fog captures it. Once FOG deploys the image you will not be able to tell the if the source image was from a ssd, hdd, or vmdk file. As a test deploy the same image to the 3 different disk structures (hdd, ssd, nvme drive). On the hdd you should get 50-90MB/s sequential speed using crystal disk mark. For the ssd you should get 350-520MB/s sequential speeds depending on your sata attached ssd. For the NVMe drive 700-900MB/s sequential transfer rates. All from the same source image.
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  Change Hostname Early / Client Hostname Changer
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  @george1421 the next time I need to change something in the golden image I will test these scripts. Thank you.
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  Replication Inquiry
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  @blainey Replication needs FTP (random ports for the data channel) and HTTP.
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  Dual Port NIC Config
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  After a few days of testing on a local network just using the onboard ethernet port going to a router this is already a heck of a lot easier than the previous imaging solution that I banged my head against for a month. Bare metal is definitely the way to be and I greatly appreciate the insight. I would have torn what remains of my hair out trying to figure out making that work with Virtualbox. Going from here, trying to get the final set up the way I described in my original post, it sounds like I need to look into the DHCP configuration to move the imaging to the two additional ethernet ports and off eno1, is that correct? Right now I have eno1, enp2s0f0, and enp2s0f1. eno1 will be supplying internet and I presume the other two will be on different gateways reaching out to the switch where the target PC’s will be connected to. Would this be something I can achieve using the built in tools?
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  Deploying BIOS Boot Order to multiple computers (booting to network 1st)
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  @drumnj said in Deploying BIOS Boot Order to multiple computers (booting to network 1st): You said you return yours to “normal” boot (I take it hd 1st) What I was referring to here is with Dell and CCTK you can set a flag in the bios that basically says on the next reboot boot to the network. On reboot+1 boot what ever the default boot device is. So if you wanted to do an unattended imaging but your normal boot device was the hard drive you could push out a FOG snapin that called cctk on next boot-boot to the LAN, then schedule a fog deployment. If the fog client is installed it will reboot the target computer and then start imaging right away.
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  fogproject user account ?
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  @Qweeqweg the change from using an account named “fog” to an account named “fogproject” is recent. in spite of directions, people kept creating and using an account named “fog” as their user account when setting up the server.
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  Chainloading sudden failure
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  @Sebastian-Roth Alright, good to know for the future. Since I didn’t have a clear fix, I blew up the VM and am starting from scratch. There were only two images anyway.
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  The future of partclone and therefore FOG as it is
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  @george1421 Well, potentially that was a resize bug in the inits if you’re using an NVME drive. Could also be the mount failing for some reason? Just some ideas.
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  How does TPM on Win10 react to PXE'ing Ubuntu LiveCD?
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  Thank you @george1421 for giving me such a complete answer. My greatest concern was looking as if I had attempted something like a cold boot attack, but if something onboard such as IME is going to show logs then I really wouldn’t bother. It’s not worth finding out if they care to distinguish, so thanks for your advice. In regards to potentially angering people like yourself, I’m grateful you were still fair to me! I didn’t take any steps that were contrary to IT’s mandate, we are after all a team. Maybe they will approve the request. :) FOG was a means to satisfy a curiosity (NDI) but will prove to be much more useful and fun with my own half-broken Desktops. Have a good one!
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  How to PXE boot to a Windows PE ISO
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  @zaboxmaster Ah ok that is how G4D got into the picture. You didn’t use my steps exactly. That is ok you go there. The iPXE menu that you have will only work for BIOS systems and not uefi. There are additional parameters that are needed for UEFI. I thought I had the answers hidden in that thread, but I must have removed them. This will be from memory (I have it in a config file at home) In your line like initrd http://192.168.100.160/windows/10Pro-x64/Boot/bcd BCD you need to use the -n switch to make the line look similar to this for uefi. initrd -n BCD http://192.168.100.160/windows/10Pro-x64/Boot/bcd BCD Also you will need to change out the bootmgr.exe for the uefi equivalent. initrd -n bootmgr.efihttp://192.168.100.160/windows/10Pro-x64/bootmgr.efi bootmgr.efi Again this is posted from a rusty old memory, so it should be close but not exact. Edit1: While this isn’t where I started from look a the uefi section here ref: http://mistyrebootfiles.altervista.org/documents/TinyPXEServer/files/winpe_wimboot.htm
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  how to clone a windows drive without sysprep
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  @dongtuuyenblackpeony Sounds very strange because the iPXE menu/task execution simply is selected via the MAC address of the client machine. That should be no different whichever state the machine is in. For example, you could even wipe the whole disk or install Linux on the drive and it should still behave same on the PXE boot! Sorry, don’t want to sound rude but have you used FOG to capture/deploy images before? Just want to make sure you know the process.