@Sebastian-Roth Thank you for all that.

I’m playing with it and got it nearly there by unt-ticking/re-ticking the AD join options in the individual host’s entry, then all my defaults populated nicely. Now have enough to go about tweaking with fog.log as you mention.

Thanks again!

@PBT said in Token.dat missing:

Response Invalid security token

This is the actual error in your case. Please go to the FOG web UI and see if the client is already in the host’s list. You might need to approve it!

If it is in the host list, then do a “Reset Encryption Data” (button in the host’s settings).

@Reuban1219 said in Does FOG still support Windows XP Imaging?:

Other than Single Disk - Resizable option there is three other choices.
a) Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk(Not Resizable)
b)Multiple Partition Image - All Disks(Not Resizable)
c)Raw Image (Sector BY Sector,DD,Slow)
Which of these do I choose?

If you don’t need to deploy the image to a smaller size disk you wanna choose “Multiple Partition Image - Single Disk(Not Resizable)”. Check out the information in the wiki on this: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Managing_FOG#Images

Btw, I have an additional question. Is it okay to capture and deploy image without doing sysprep? Or is it a must to do sysprep?

Sysprep is not needed in general. FOG doesn’t care if you sysprep or not. BUT Windows will need to be syspreped if you capture from one hardware model and deploy to another one being quite different. Good you bring up this point as I have not had that in mind. While I don’t think the hang on the blinking “_” can be caused by deploying to a different hardware as it’s very early in the boot process it’s very likely Windows will give you a blue screen later on in that case.

Update: It works. The file ending was the problem.

@Sebastian-Roth, não me atentei muito para a questão dos scripts. Mas já havia tentado executar um Snapin de script Shel e um .bat utilizando slmgr. Mas no windows o slmgr /ipk e /ato parecem ser inúteis. Vou ver novamente esses tópicos quando eu tiver mais tempo.

@victorykimutai You might share here how you’ve fixed the issues as other users might find it helpful too. Thanks in advance.

I found the smart installer for 11.19 🙂 Now it works on http. We will try to activate https on our server and activate https on the client

Thank you very much, worked like a breeze!

These issues are typically related to how the structure is on the disk and where the data is placed. Its not really a fog issue, but an issue how the reference image placed on the golden image disk. This is important especially if your golden image is constantly recycled as you apply round 2 (through N) updates and applications. The ideal method is to rebuild your golden image every time as you upgrade your golden image.

So how to fix…

Make sure your 😄 drive is the last partition on the disk. This may require you to move or delete the recovery partition. The recovery partition is a non-resizable and sometimes non-movable partition. I also question the value of a recovery partition if you have an imaging solution in place. It is much quicker to just reimage the computer than to try to recover a failed disk. If you have done many updates to your golden image (especially over time) flush out all of your temp files and defragment the hard drive. This will (should) push all of the files towards the beginning of the disk. The idea/goal here would be to move all of the disk data below the size of the disk you will be deploying to. That makes FOG’s disk compression work a bit easier. If you are developing a golden image create that golden image on the smallest disk possible. Its is easier to expand the disk than it is to shrink it. So if you developed your golden image on a 120GB SSD, that image would deploy cleanly to 120GB disks and larger, for example.

@Derek-Newbold FYI I have seen ton of people running FOG in AWS with totally public IP and that works outside of any firewall issues, of course those instances involve people who have access to the local sites DHCP so they can update the tftp option in their scopes with the public IP 🙂

In my case it’s a private IP but I do have access to the networking side of things so sites throughout the organization can boot fine from HQ FOG server.

@obeh What’s the express service code or exact model number? I may have one laying around and would be happy to try it on my end… Thanks

@marc49ca Thanks for your input on this. Though I feel like it’s not related to the OP’s question on VMware Workstation.

The guide I was following to set it up mentioned that FOG wouldn’t capture from UEFI.

This statement is no true in general (as you post it here)! What’s mentioned in that guide is:

One more thing, make sure that Legacy Boot (not UEFI) is enabled on whatever computer you want to capture or deploy. I think FOG supports UEFI already but I haven’t looked into it yet.

This is specific to VirtualBox being used in that tutorial and not caused by FOG but simply an issue within VirtualBox that doesn’t properly PXE boot UEFI VMs. I am not exactly sure if this is still true for the latest version. I don’t think so but maybe. ESXi is not like VMware Workstation is not like VirtualBox.

After building my Win10 image (tried with 1903 and 1910) and getting the same problem I found took a different approach. Build the Windows system, sysprep it. Before booting again, change the system type from UEFI to BIOS (as we’re not booting Windows it won’t matter). Then registered the host and reboot to capture the image.

This hint on using legacy BIOS mode just for capturing might be helpful in the OP’s situation as well! Good point.

It turns out that this was a problem with the Trusted Platform Module. Apparently it didn’t like the new O/S being installed on hardware it had already “signed”. Not being too schooled in how TPM works, I’m making an assumption here, but clearing the TPM after deployment fixed my bootup problem. This can be done in the BIOS, or by letting the system boot from the Hard Drive at the Fog Menu, then running tpm.msc and clearing it there.

@Base2Nathan I’m not asking to be rude but there’s hardly any information to work from.

All fog does from imaging is capture what you tell it to, and deploy where/when you tell it. It’s block level, so there’s nothing fog would be doing in regards to the programs you have installed or removed.

@fry_p

This is good information. It’s how I automate the FOG client install after my sysprep images have been restored.

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.

@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…

@Sebastian-Roth Looks good from this end.

@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.

@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.