@thisisryanswift You can surely image home edition. You would create your reference image just as you would for pro. You can preload application, and set some custom configurations, then sysprep the image.

The issue you run into is more of a legal / licensing issue than a physical one. Home and OEM licenses (of all flavors) doesn’t support (hint: allow) reimaging rights. You can only install from OEM media unmodified. AFAIK Home version doesn’t have a VLK key to allow reimaging like Pro does. Just be aware of this restriction.

From a physical standpoint OEM images will not run the setupcomplete.cmd file at the end of OOBE. You might get around this by modifying the first run section of the unattend.xml file.

@Tom-Elliott
Resolved. Perfect. That did it. Much thanks.

Now on to sysprep testing.

Here is the file I used.

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Place your SetupComplete.cmd in %windir%\Setup\Scripts
(you will nedd to create the scripts folder.)

Copy your unattend.xml to %windir%\system32\sysprep\

hit windows key and S, type service, click on services, find FOG and right click and select propereties, select disable click apply.

hit the Windows key and R to open the run box, type in sysprep.
double click the sysprep icon.

Hope it works for you.

@Joe-Schmitt
It work fine now, thanks.

@Scott-Adams Thanks, Scott. Checking it out…

I reconfigured Windows 7 to use ACHI by following the instructions in this article.

http://www.ithinkdiff.com/how-to-enable-ahci-in-windows-8-after-installation/

Worked like a charm!

@x23piracy While this isn’t FOG related, imaging rights are important to follow. If you want to survive an audit you should understand what you are allowed to do and can’t do.

Chris (from Microsoft) has posted 2 clear documents on what you can do with system imaging (from a MS perspective). This question comes up on Spiceworks almost daily.

https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/124056-reimaging-rights-for-windows-10-licensing-how-to

https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/69219-reimaging-rights-how-they-apply-to-your-licensing

Take these documents as a clear explanation of the MS EULA.

It is true if you have a single VLK key, you can deploy any number of systems as long as the OEM key is licensed for the same OS as the VLK key. For example if you have a single VLK key for Windows 10 Pro. You may reimage any number of computers that came from the manufacturer with Windows 10 Pro already installed. You may not use the VLK key for Win 10 Pro to deploy Win 10 Pro to a computer that had Win 8.1 previously installed. That is a different license (version upgrade).

@Tom-Elliott The resize worked correctly. Thank you for quickly finding the solution!

I have managed to resolve this now, i needed to reinstall Windows on the server and choose New to create the partitions on the installation instead of just next for some reason.

I have now been able to image server 2012r2 and server 2016 without issues.

@boynty77 Most often this is the best thing to do.

Change the boot file you’re using (assuming this is booting via UEFI) to ipxe7156.efi

@MarkusK This depends entirely on your snapin, it simply accepts the exit code it gets from the program it is told to run.

If this is not the desired behavior, you need to alter your setup.

@eseelke George is 100% correct. Follow his advice.

@irishfoguser Hi, generally speaking you’re better off using Resizable image. If this for some reason doesn’t work (fails to deploy), then trying the other options is recommended.

For your situation, it sounds like Resizable Image will do the trick. So I recommend picking an image, setting it to resizable, recapture, deploy and see if it works for you.

1.3 is able to resize the correct partition for you before Windows even boots for the first time.

I solved it… I restored the partition again but now with the option ‘Single Disk - Resizeable’ … now the partition shows up as it should.

@sudburr Not a guarantee, but you might try scripting the uninstall using the old fog client msi instead of the product ID.

@Joe-Schmitt @Wayne-Workman @Tom-Elliott I thank you guys for the help but the original script worked just fine.

I believe this one was an user error and in this case me being that user.

When I made the snapin pack I messed up in how I told fog to execute the bat file inside by not telling fog that it had another folder to prior to trying to execute the bat file. as you can see from my original post I had simply _install.bat"
when in reality it was popcap/_install.bat I have since then repacked the .zip file with no other folder in the way and simplified the bat file by naming it simply pop.bat all with the original coding @echo off Echo Wscript.Sleep 5000>"%Temp%\Wait.vbs" Echo WScript.Quit>>"%Temp%\Wait.vbs" Echo Installing Game Pack... Echo. For /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b /on "*[PopCap][ExtremlymTorrents.Me].exe"') do ( Echo Installing %%~na... Echo. Start "" /wait Wscript "%Temp%\Wait.vbs" Start "" /wait "%%a" /S ) Del "%Temp%\Wait.vbs"
after doing this all the games installed silently with no issues via fog deployment services. Thank You!!!

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So can I just put the product key in the second photo where it says ProductKey instead of putting it under OOBE

@cojohnson For the moment, let’s stop worrying about imaging, and just focus on the fog client. The goal is to fix the errors in the log. Try uninstalling it and reinstalling it first.

@Wayne-Workman
Reset complete - Had to restart the host to get the data to update. Now we have the “next” issue. I have the fog printer management set to “FOG Only”. The User Client goes about its business, removes all printers, then installs the printer specified for that host in the server.

Except it doesn’t.

I now have very panicky users who are baffled that their printers vanished. I have changed the printer management level to FOG Managed to prevent the manually installed temp printer driver/software from being removed.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------PrinterManager-------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12/15/2016 12:41 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.5 12/15/2016 12:41 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 12/15/2016 12:41 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0-RC-21 12/15/2016 12:41 PM Middleware::Response No Printers 12/15/2016 12:41 PM PrinterManager Getting installed printers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------PrinterManager-------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12/15/2016 12:42 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.5 12/15/2016 12:42 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 12/15/2016 12:42 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0-RC-21 12/15/2016 12:42 PM Middleware::Response ERROR: Unable to get subsection 12/15/2016 12:42 PM Middleware::Response ERROR: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. **** Reset Encryption Data Again... **** **** Restarted Host **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------PrinterManager-------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.5 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0-RC-21 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Middleware::Response Success 12/15/2016 12:52 PM PrinterManager Getting installed printers 12/15/2016 12:52 PM PrinterManager Adding printers 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Printer Adding: (20) Tech Supply Color MFP 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Printer --> IP = 10.6.6.20 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Printer --> Port = 10.6.6.20 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Printer --> File = \\10.6.6.251\driver\HP_UPD_PCL6\hpcu190u.inf 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Printer --> Config = 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Printer --> Model = HP Universal Printing PCL 6 12/15/2016 12:52 PM PrinterManager PrintUI return code = 0 12/15/2016 12:52 PM PrinterManager Restarting spooler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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