[quote=“Julianh, post: 47352, member: 24986”]Thank you Tom, I’ve been imaging 2008 & 2012 servers, using windows 7 as the OS. I was a bit puzzeled as to why it was working! All installs should be MBR.

Is there a way of taking a raw image of the BCD data?

The OS I’m Imaging is, not windows, and am prepared to “pay” in storage such that, I take an image of the server, then send that same image down to the same machine. I’ll repeat that for each server. I know it’ll be heavy on the storage. Some of the OS partitions are fat16, so I want to use the features of fog for,these partitions, rather than use a “raw” image

Thanks for your help

Yours

Julian[/quote]
OS “other” and non-resizable is what you’re looking for, by the sound of it.
out of curiosity, what OS is it?
fyi: fog has built in detection and support for ext 2, 3, and 4, ntfs, fat, hfsplus, and uses raw for what it can’t detect. so, you’ll probably find that the image takes up less space then you think.

Thanks, I will test this out incase this issue comes up again. My colleague was able to get a license from a reseller of the old application.

[quote=“Trevelyan, post: 47309, member: 7471”]Is it just avoiding possible data corruption, or certain data corruption? I haven’t seen any ill effects of not changing, to be honest. I’ll keep going without changing it but keep it in mind anyway. Thanks for explaining it! :)[/quote]

potential.

If the syntax is similar to yum, we could make a temporary alias to change out yum to dnf. I don’t imagine the installation of packages would change too much.

I’ve never used the reporting functionality in FOG…

I’d personally just fire up an SQL client, connect to FOG, do the query for the data I want, dump that into a Google Doc, and format it up nice and pretty.

Also, are you able to boot to a recovery partition by pressing F8? If so, Windows 8 has some recovery tools in there for startup issues.

I still have alot of testing and configuration to do but as soon as my documentation is done I will post it here. I am having issues with NIC bonding right now, it works great on the FOG servers, CentOS 6.6, but I applied the same settings to the Red Hat 6.6 servers and the connection keeps dropping. The fun of IT!!

Actually it would still be allowed because fog does not install software or printers as the logged in user. It installs using the system user which is essentially the root user of system level activities allowing printers and software to be installed but maintaining user level permissions.

We put it on our images too. But if you choose Fog printer management to Add/Delete it deletes the Smart Printer. I either need to know how to push it out or how to keep from from deleting it.

[quote=“Wayne Workman, post: 46752, member: 28155”]Also, if you used user-based enumeration shares (windows server 12 and up), you can specify encryption of the redirected user data on the server itself, and have the user files NOT EVEN EXIST on the local machines. That’s how my environment is set up. It’s done through GPOs.[/quote]

That too is how we have ours set up. I really, really love not worrying about someone’s files when a drive dies anymore.

[quote=“Wayne Workman, post: 46660, member: 28155”]Does FOG use FTP to delete images?[/quote]

yes

It shouldn’t be too hard to have a method to chain to WDS. Its just a matter of triggering the right file. It does matter what version of Windows Server you are running. When I get to that part, I will be making a connection to a Windows Server 2012. The same methods should also work on 2008r2 and 2012r2.

Any/all results and documentation on my UEFI/BIOS coexistence will be going into a new thread. Since that will use DnsMasq it will be off topic for this thread.

Ok i see. Thank you 🙂

I’m game to hear what you’ve implemented. Message sent…

I need to remove some categories and rename some categories to match my needs. I expect that i have to change a lot of files.

Yes so many times to the laptop idea. You would still need the FOG Server software installed to make the client give you workstation information. And the client can give you info related to the Inventory function on its own, but from my understanding even with the new client you have to have the workstation registered into FOG for the client to be able to report on anything. If you were able to leave a little desktop somewhere on site you could also just use that as a server, and talk to the server whenever you need information.

It was not a problem of Timeout FTP…But it doesn’t matter, i can do cp -a /images/dev/@MAC /images/name 🙂

[QUOTE]What user does the FreeNAS use? [/QUOTE]
I’m only one user of FreeNAS

The download is ok to the new client.

I will write the tutorial ! 🙂

Fog processing, otherwise called fogging, is a conveyed registering foundation in which some application administrations are taken care of at the system edge in a shrewd gadget and some application administrations are taken care of in a remote server farm - in the cloud. The objective of misting is to enhance proficiency and lessen the measure of information that needs to be transported to the cloud for information transforming, investigation and capacity. This is regularly accomplished for proficiency reasons, yet it might likewise be completed for security and agreeability reasons.

Sounds like a great feature request.

Fedora 21 server videos coming soon.
I plan to cover installation & configuration, with a 2nd video about basic imaging.