Problems with having different series laptops

[Atyrrellead]

I am a rental company for event AV. I am fairly new to FOG project and have only used it to clone computers so then clients have clean windows when they get the laptop. The main problem that I am running into is that I have technicians that are not a knowledgeable about computers as I am and want to use multicast to make it so then they just need to plug in the laptop and it will do everything for them, and they don’t need to go into the FOG project and click on the laptop host and deploy image and then smash the F9 key. When looking at the multicast option I see that you can pick a group of hosts and deploy the image. The thing is that I have 3 different HP laptops: Probook G6 450, Probook G8 430, Probook G8 450. Which each need their own separate image.
1: Am i doing this correctly in general?
2: Is there a way to make all of these series multicast at the same time?

Also I have a separate microsoft account for each laptop to let clients be able to edit their presentations. I have to image my laptops without the account on the computer or it will copy it over.
Is there a to have FOG save those accounts to those specific laptops so I don’t have to log in after every deploy?

[Sebastian Roth]

@Atyrrellead said:

1: Am i doing this correctly in general?

Sounds ok from what we know so far.

2: Is there a way to make all of these series multicast at the same time?

You can define groups with hosts independently of the image they use but you cannot schedule a multicast task for those.

This takes us back to question 1. Is it wise to maintain an image for the three different laptop models you have? You should be able to generalize the Windows install

Also I have a separate microsoft account for each laptop to let clients be able to edit their presentations. I have to image my laptops without the account on the computer or it will copy it over.
Is there a to have FOG save those accounts to those specific laptops so I don’t have to log in after every deploy?

Its not advisable to ask two or more unrelated questions in one forum topic because usually one or the other is going to go lost. Probably best if you open a new forum topic for this. Please tell us more about what you mean by “save those accounts to those specific laptops”. I can imagine you can do this using either the fog-client or post-imaging scripts but I would need more information on what exactly needs to be done.