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  Useful Scripts
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  That’s really cool.

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  Organizations Using FOG
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  Organization Name: Vistex, Inc.
  Location: Corporate Office - Hoffman Estates, Illinois, USA
  Approximate Number of systems: 1600 laptops/75 desktops
  How long: Since 2017
  12 Satellite Offices Worldwide each running a FOG server locally (VM)

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  Requests for Wiki Access <--- ASK HERE
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  @Greg-Plamondon We are moving to read the docs. Would you be interested to help with this? https://docs.fogproject.org/en/latest/

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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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  Can a FOG Server setup as a Storage Node serve tftp files?
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  @brakcounty said in Can a FOG Server setup as a Storage Node serve tftp files?:

  I could always do a mysqldump export and import from the primary fog server to the secondary right?

  Sure thing!

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  Are hosts no longer designated by mac address?
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  @yeet See if the bios has a setting called mac passthru or something similar. That will passthru the built in mac address of the mobile device to make the network adapter generic and the computer unique.

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  Any updates on the non-resizable Windows recovery partition issue?
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  @brakcounty said in Any updates on the non-resizable Windows recovery partition issue?:

  So I should only download from github what I already have instead of all of the inits right?

  You only need init.xz and init_32.xz! Download those two files from github, rename the original ones on your FOG server and put the new ones into place.

  Also I don’t know why those two bzimage files are in the group “fogproject” instead of www-data.

  That happens when you update the kernel through the web UI. It’s not an issue. Still works just fine.

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  Windows 11 image can be deployed with secure boot disabled
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  Doesn’t secure boot use unique keys? Have you been able to boot with secure boot enabled on machines that you deployed the image to?

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  Use the USB FOG Boot method on a ssd/hdd as first boot partition to manage remote clients
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  @george1421 The USB ipxe boot method works perfectly, from a USB drive. The idea is to somehow make that ipxe process boot BEFORE Windows on the hard drive itself instead of the usb drive, and have a countdown to boot from first hardrive. This way I can set a deploy or capture task remotely and it would work. As for specifying the IP address, I already did. Ipxe sees the FOG server on the same vlan, but on a different vlan ipxe asks for the FOG server address.

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  NVMe madness
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  @sebastian-roth I need to get back into those docs. Things have been just so crazy lately. When you have something working let me know and we’ll get it documented.

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  FOG compatibility with Secure Boot on?
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  @florent All the uefi systems need to be in custom/setup/user mode to add keys or file hashes, the hint is to implement an adequate security level…

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  example of snapin unix
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  @sebastian-roth I already try snappin on Windows and it’s working. The client is install with the last version and my fog version is 1.5.9.
  I tried to use Fog’s snappin on debian host but and it’s going well but I think that my command are not good. i tried with dpkg -i and /bin/bash. The client is downloading and rebooting the PC but I can’t find the program

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  When and Image is captured multiple times, does it overwrite the previous capture? Or is there a way to access captures from different dates?
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  @yeet TBH I would not use fog for this. There are better/cheaper solutions out there, specifically Veeam Backup Agent (free). You can have it take nightly backups to where you can do a bare metal restore if the system fails. You can setup a retention period for each backup (i.e. 14 days before rewriting the oldest backup).

  The target of your veeam backup can be a nas, san, another CIFS based computer, or a Veeam B&R server. I use the Veeam backup agent at home for my windows and linux computers backing up to a Synology NAS. Works perfect.

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  Installer Issue - Interface/Ipadress related reopend
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  @turtle331 I would like to get a solution for the installer error

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  Move partitions on GPT layouts - need people to test
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  @sebastian-roth
  I tried this solution with Windows 21H1 the image capture and deploy works without any problems from a 1 TB NVMe SSD to the 500 GB SATA SSD.

  d1.minimum.partitions

  cat d1.minimum.partitions label: gpt label-id: 32D055B8-40FD-4110-9551-5794A08735E8 device: /dev/nvme0n1 unit: sectors first-lba: 34 last-lba: 2000409230 sector-size: 512 /dev/nvme0n1p1 : start= 2048, size= 204800, type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, uuid=28F8CABB-959B-4C15-986E-0F8640E4F0C7, name="EFI system partition", attrs="GUID:63" /dev/nvme0n1p2 : start= 206848, size= 32768, type=E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE, uuid=ED9F8F39-E265-428D-8BE1-C2B7E4304D52, name="Microsoft reserved partition", attrs="GUID:63" /dev/nvme0n1p3 : start= 239616, size= 291316922, type=EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7, uuid=05966690-06CD-4A69-BF88-376CC3EBFAC0, name="Basic data partition" /dev/nvme0n1p4 : start= 291556864, size= 5639168, type=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC, uuid=49569B35-41CE-42F5-82CB-6F68BA36C239, attrs="RequiredPartition GUID:63"

  d1.partitions

  cat d1.partitions label: gpt label-id: 32D055B8-40FD-4110-9551-5794A08735E8 device: /dev/nvme0n1 unit: sectors first-lba: 34 last-lba: 2000409230 sector-size: 512 /dev/nvme0n1p1 : start= 2048, size= 204800, type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, uuid=28F8CABB-959B-4C15-986E-0F8640E4F0C7, name="EFI system partition", attrs="GUID:63" /dev/nvme0n1p2 : start= 206848, size= 32768, type=E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE, uuid=ED9F8F39-E265-428D-8BE1-C2B7E4304D52, name="Microsoft reserved partition", attrs="GUID:63" /dev/nvme0n1p3 : start= 239616, size= 1994530304, type=EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7, uuid=05966690-06CD-4A69-BF88-376CC3EBFAC0, name="Basic data partition" /dev/nvme0n1p4 : start= 1994769920, size= 5639168, type=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC, uuid=49569B35-41CE-42F5-82CB-6F68BA36C239, attrs="RequiredPartition GUID:63"
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  Deployed image/device count
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  @brakcounty I don’t have access to my production fog server at the moment, but I’m wondering if the history table keeps track of “deploy image” imaging…

  This bit probably won’t help you retrospectively, but in my environment we don’t register the target computers with FOG, we use the “Deploy image” route. We do use MDT to build our golden image though. In MDT we have a task sequence that creates a registry key with the build date the golden image is created because we typically rebuild our golden image once a quarter. With a PS query we can query AD and the target computers to find out the unique build date of all of the deployed images. In a way we could back into the number you are seeking.

  So the question for you is… is there something unique that would identify the target computer as being deployed by FOG? Some unique software or registry setting that would say this image was built by our golden image deployment environment?

  From a FOG perspective, once you deploy an image via the “Deploy image” iPXE menu FOG forgets the target computer ever existed. The question in my mind is of the history table keeps any lingering memories of the target computer’s mac address or such.

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  Will Fog work on Knopix ?
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  How do I schedule captures on a recurring basis?
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  @yeet Good you have found FOG’s cron scheduled taskings. That’s the way to go for what you are asked to do.

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  fog ipxe menu password reset
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  @brakcounty That is defined in the web ui. That is the default user account you login as the admin. If you create another user account on your fog server you can use that for the iPXE menu instead of fog