I had to make a correction. I meant to say pre-1Gbit internet not 10Gbit internet. We have 10G backbones (intranet) but not to the internet.

@abulhol Any news on this?

Hi EduardoTSeoane,

Thank you! Restarting the FOGSnapinHash service with systemctl restart FOGSnapinHash worked! I did check if this service was running but never thought about restarting it. This gave me some more energy to search the forum.

I found this post also noting the FOGSnapinHash interval is 30 minutes. Then I found one can change that interval on the FOG server by:
FOG Configuration >> FOG Settings >> FOG Linux Service Sleep Times >> SNAPINHASHSLEEPTIME from 1800 seconds to …

I still think it’s very strange someone should have to wait for 30 minutes after creating a Snapin that reuses a file with a default FOG installation, as it seems to be a common thing to do because of the Snapin File (exists) drop down menu in the GUI, but I’m glad and thankful my problem is solved!

Best,
J den Hartog

i’d split this up - use GPO or at minimum registry to achieve this then snapin to push out relevant xml start menu layout

Registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer] - 64bit location
“LockedStartLayout”=dword:00000001
“StartLayoutFile”="C:\PATH\TO\START\MENU\LAYOUT\.xml

you can partially lockdown start menu aswell so you give users a standard put they can pin their own stuff too (not allowed to edit what you’ve set)

the snapin could just handle which start menu they get

i.e. Admin-> this startmenu.xml
IT-> this startmenu.xml

just when they reach the location set in registry name it the same so like:
IT-Startmenu.xml copies locally to startmenu.xml
Admin-Startmenu.xml copies locally to startmenu.xml

Hope this makes sense

@Tom-Elliott Oh that makes sense, so not quite so easy to change. I thought it was just a typo, but that makes more sense that it just pulls the description from elsewhere.