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  UNSOLVED Boot problems on Lenovo M720s with M.2 drive & EUFI
  • mattlong01  

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  Did you sysprep the image before capture? How did you build your reference image? Did you build it on the same model computer, capture and then deploy to a different computer of the same model, or did you create a generic reference image on a VM and then deployed it to the target hardware. For uefi computers, if the boot device has a fat32 partition with the boot file in the proper location the uefi firmware will let you set it as a bootable device. If the boot file isn’t found that drive won’t be selectable to boot. So this tells me that refind can find the proper uefi boot loader, but the firmware can’t?? Does the lenovo have something similar to the Dell F12 boot manager? If so can you select the m.2 drive from that menu and have it boot?
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  SOLVED W10 1909 create image failed.
  • hyneg  

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  Yes, windows is in a dirty state. Google “windows dirty bit” for more details on this issue. The issue isn’t with FOG but Windows and how it closes the files on the disk. To fix this you will need to restart the workstation and then: Use the proper sysprep command switch to power off the computer (best) Sysprep the system then use shutdown.exe -s -t 0 to power off the computer. Since Windows 8 windows start button shutdown isn’t really a shutdown, but an enhanced sleep state (S5). Using one of the above methods will ensure the system is properly closed and ready for imaging.
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  SOLVED Failing to create Win 10 v1909 with new cumulative updates image
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  @Lee-Rowlett That is a sound route, I’ll keep it in mind while I dig into it. Yeah, I was hoping it was some other reason than permissions, but somehow over the last week permissions changed on the server, so it is probably how I’ve got it setup. The main system is installed on a 512 GB M.2 Nvme, and the images are stored on a 2TB HDD that I have mounted to the images folder. The permissions didn’t have a date last changed, so I’m guessing something happened with that mount at some point, maybe a power outage or brownout and maybe it reset the mount long enough to fubar the permissions? Pure conjecture… but it was a permissions issue…
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  SOLVED MSI vs SmartInstaller
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  @Scott-B MSI is just fine on Windows!
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  SOLVED client 0.11.17 do not install with MSI
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  @Sebastian-Roth Looks good from this end.
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  SOLVED win10 1909 fogserver 1.5.7 debian (might have screwed something up?)
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  @p4cm4n Good to hear it’s not caused by the fog-client. Keeping my fingers crossed that you find what broke the install on 1909 soon! Please let us know what you find.
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  No shortcut on desktop after spaning
  • Fredorum  

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  @Fredorum We need more infos to be able to help. What software do you install? Have you tried installing this software manually (as well using the exact same parameters)? Do you get the desktop icon if doing it manually? The fog-client runs as SYSTEM service account. This might cause the installer to act different to what you might expect. It might be easier to just create the desktop icon within a batch script that you run as snapin.
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  SOLVED Windows 1909 Deployment issues
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  @Hartman4820 How was the image captured? I’ve seen this issue with Zstd at compresison 19 (though it could be any form of Zstd) as zstd has a bug where just as it completes it doesn’t exit properly. Is this actually impacting the usability of the machine though? In my case it does not.
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  SOLVED Adobe Acrobat Reader snapin not working
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  @astrugatch said in Adobe Acrobat Reader snapin not working: If I recall correctly the Acrobat exe installer has an MSI baked inside of it. There is two ways to grab the MSI. 7zip will sometimes open self extracting installers so you can grab the contents. Launch the .exe program but stop at the eula, possibly one later question. Then go to your temp directory The contents of the installer should be in a guid named directory in your temp. The alternate location might be in ProgramData\adobe path.
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  SOLVED FOG Client cannot communicate with the server (token.data missing)
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  @marted That was a quick move. Your choice. I am fairly sure enabling HTTPS in the settings file on the client should have fixed the issue if you don’t use custom SSL CA/cert. Did you restart the machine after changing the settings file?
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  SOLVED Windows 10 hangs at "Just a moment..." on Dell Latitude 5500
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  @greichelt You can reply to this thread as long as its in the same concept as the title. Just be sure to tag me so I see it.
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  SOLVED Error Trying to Restore GPT Partition Tables
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  @thennessey said in Error Trying to Restore GPT Partition Tables: I swapped out the files in the google drive link for the ones that are associated with the win10UEFItest image that I originally had questions about. I see you swapped those out (numbers in the files are different) but I still cannot reproduce the issue as reported. The numbers seem ok and I can deploy using those files to a 100 GB size VM disk perfectly fine…
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  SOLVED Windows Dirty Bit error after last windows update
  • tricyphona  

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  before you capture with fog either use sysprep to power off the computer or issue shutdown -s -t 0 to power off the computer. In windows 10 the shutdown button is really a fancy sleep mode and not really a close everything and power off kind of shutdown.
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  SOLVED Because? and who? change Sequence boot UEFI?
  • Gilberto Ferraz  

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  @Gilberto-Ferraz Try this running this PowerShell script as a snapin. What it does is moves the first non-windows boot selection to the top, in your case it will move “IP4 Intel Ethernet Connection I217-LM” to the top of the boot order. Works for me…
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  SOLVED Join domain no longer working
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  Put the machines into a group. From the group, update the ad information as needed and save. That should update all your machines with the necessary information.
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  SOLVED Issues using driver path in sysprep - Windows 10
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  @hauser said in Issues using driver path in sysprep - Windows 10: It may be that this method just doesnt work any more as I am fairly unfamiliar with the changes in sysprep of Windows 10, but I also was curious if this is even the best way to add drivers to the images. You are rigth, M$ broke this handy feature of defining where the drivers are. What I’ve found to be reliable is using the pnputil command in the setupcomplete.cmd batch file to load in any remaining hardware specific drivers. So for my campus I have 2 golden images (one bios and one uefi) for 15 different hardware models, where the hardware specific drives are transferred to the target computer using a post install script, then I run the pnputil program to load the drivers. ref: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/11126/using-fog-postinstall-scripts-for-windows-driver-injection-2017-ed/4
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  SOLVED Boot Option Issue (PXE booting)
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  @Gilberto-Ferraz said in Boot Option Issue (PXE booting): Hello @Brendan-Clemente! I have the same problem I tried to solve with the suggestion of @george1421 using Dell CCTK tool kit. But I could not. Are all your machines from Dell for this tool to work? Do you have any tutorials to follow? Tools for working with BIOS configuration options are both manufacturer dependent and model dependent. Most manufacturers are moving toward some kind of wmi-acpi support, but each manufacturer has their own timetable for switching and that switch requires a new tool. You will likely want to consult the support pages for the manufacturer(s) of your machines as there is no universal solution.
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  SOLVED FOG 1.5.6: Windows unattended.xml is intermittently failing to work
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  @tech49 In this topic there is more than one issue being discussed. So “exact same issue” is not clear. As this was on FOG 1.5.6 I suppose things might be different anyway. Please open a new topic and post all your details: FOG version, Linux OS/version, error message (picture)…
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  SOLVED FOG service quits running
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  @Joe-Gill Are you still around? Would be great to hear if you still see this issue on some of your machines. I have tried to replicate this problem but wasn’t able to. See here: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/13902/fog-service-and-interventions
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  SOLVED Activating Windows 10 Pro after deployment
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  @Borega Try this file: https://github.com/FOGProject/fog-client/releases/download/0.11.16/Modules_SnapinPack_empty_dirs.dll Should have the fix in it as well.