• Recent
    • Unsolved
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Groups
    • Search
    • Register
    • Login

    Windows 7 Image

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Solved
    Windows Problems
    4
    18
    3.3k
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • imagingmaster21I
      imagingmaster21
      last edited by

      What are the best practices for building a image with FOG for Windows 7, what settings do you select. I seem some people say you select Sing Re-sizable or Multiple not re-sizable. The machines using the image will be using BitLocker Encryption.

      Wayne WorkmanW 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • Wayne WorkmanW
        Wayne Workman @imagingmaster21
        last edited by Wayne Workman

        @imagingmaster21 said in Windows 7 Image:

        The machines using the image will be using BitLocker Encryption.

        FOG cannot image machines with bitlocker encryption except with RAW images, which is terribly slow, inefficient, and the worst way to image.

        Here’s the best practices:

        • Always use resizable images if you can.
        • Use ZSTD compression with a setting optimized for your network:server load (this is unique to your environment, you have to find the sweet spot).
        • Turn off bitlocker in your image, re-enable after image deployment via group policy or a snapin or something.

        Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG!
        Daily Clean Installation Results:
        https://fogtesting.fogproject.us/
        FOG Reporting:
        https://fog-external-reporting-results.fogproject.us/

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 2
        • imagingmaster21I
          imagingmaster21
          last edited by

          @Wayne-Workman

          I have BitLocker turned off on the machine I am pulling the image from. I have it go through group policy after imaging. Are these settings right below:
          0_1513344646533_Capture.PNG

          Wayne WorkmanW 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • Wayne WorkmanW
            Wayne Workman @imagingmaster21
            last edited by Wayne Workman

            @imagingmaster21 said in Windows 7 Image:

            Are these settings right below:

            That ZSTD compression rate is too low. Bump it to 9 or 11. Everything else looks good.

            Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG!
            Daily Clean Installation Results:
            https://fogtesting.fogproject.us/
            FOG Reporting:
            https://fog-external-reporting-results.fogproject.us/

            imagingmaster21I 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • imagingmaster21I
              imagingmaster21 @Wayne Workman
              last edited by

              @wayne-workman
              Would that cause it to get stuck on 'resizing file system?

              Wayne WorkmanW 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • Wayne WorkmanW
                Wayne Workman @imagingmaster21
                last edited by Wayne Workman

                @imagingmaster21 Nope. But an extremely fragmented disk will cause resizing to take a very long time. The more fragmented, the longer it takes. Because resizing literally moves all the in-use data on a partition to the beginning of the partition so that it can then safely shrink the partition’s free space down.

                Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG!
                Daily Clean Installation Results:
                https://fogtesting.fogproject.us/
                FOG Reporting:
                https://fog-external-reporting-results.fogproject.us/

                imagingmaster21I 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                • imagingmaster21I
                  imagingmaster21 @Wayne Workman
                  last edited by

                  @wayne-workman
                  That make sense. I just captured it with the settings in the screenshot. I will see how it goes. If its no good I’ll change it to 9 or 11.

                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                  • imagingmaster21I
                    imagingmaster21
                    last edited by

                    I spent a few days and tried all this. And it still does not work. Our old imaging solution was Ghost. I pulled a image off of that and made some modifications to it for FOG and pulled it with these recommended settings and it didn’t work. But if you image with Ghost it works perfect for Bitlocker via GP. I compared the volume/partition settings and everything is exactly the same.

                    Any ideas? @Wayne-Workman

                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                    • S
                      Sebastian Roth Moderator
                      last edited by

                      @imagingmaster21 You’re saying Ghost can do BitLocked partitions in resizeable mode?

                      I’d suggest using non-resizable image type in FOG if you need to stick with BitLocker. This way the image will be captured as RAW on the BitLocked partition but that’s fine. Just needs more space in the server to store the image.

                      Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

                      Please support FOG if you like it: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Support_FOG

                      Wayne WorkmanW imagingmaster21I 2 Replies Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • Wayne WorkmanW
                        Wayne Workman @Sebastian Roth
                        last edited by

                        @sebastian-roth said in Windows 7 Image:

                        You’re saying Ghost can do BitLocked partitions in resizeable mode?

                        It can’t. Since Ghost is a file-level cloning solution (as opposed to an imaging solution), I question if it can handle bitlocker at all.

                        Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG!
                        Daily Clean Installation Results:
                        https://fogtesting.fogproject.us/
                        FOG Reporting:
                        https://fog-external-reporting-results.fogproject.us/

                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                        • imagingmaster21I
                          imagingmaster21 @Sebastian Roth
                          last edited by

                          @sebastian-roth

                          I tried both resizable and not resizable and no luck.

                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                          • S
                            Sebastian Roth Moderator
                            last edited by

                            @imagingmaster21 said in Windows 7 Image:

                            I tried both resizable and not resizable and no luck.

                            This is not of much help. We would like to give you a hand with this but need more information on what exactly goes wrong. Please try non-resizable again and take a picture of the error, post that here.

                            Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

                            Please support FOG if you like it: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Support_FOG

                            imagingmaster21I 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                            • imagingmaster21I
                              imagingmaster21 @Sebastian Roth
                              last edited by

                              @sebastian-roth
                              Think I found the issue in the BIOS:
                              If it’s FAT32 (so UEFI boot) go to BIOS and turn off secure boot but leave in UEFI mode. Enable CSM support. If it’s FAT32 (so UEFI boot) go to BIOS and turn off secure boot but leave in UEFI mode. Enable CSM support.

                              I am building a image from scratch and will try it and will let you know once I am able to test it.

                              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                              • S
                                Sebastian Roth Moderator
                                last edited by

                                @imagingmaster21 I don’t see why any of the things you just posted (UEFI boot, secure boot, CSM) has anything to do with an imaging problem (be it resizable or non-resizable). If you want proper help you better post pictures of errors you see on screen.

                                And by the way - to use FOG you need to turn off secure boot anyway. I haven’t seen anyone who is able to do iPXE in secure boot yet (not saying this cannot be done but we don’t provide signed binaries for that to work!).

                                Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

                                Please support FOG if you like it: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Support_FOG

                                imagingmaster21I 2 Replies Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                • imagingmaster21I
                                  imagingmaster21 @Sebastian Roth
                                  last edited by

                                  @sebastian-roth
                                  I am in the process of testing that image on the first machine. With those settings UEFI and CSM enabled encryption worked on the image I built from scratch. So I rebuilt it and pulled it on FOG. I am imaging it on a machine right now to test out to see if it will encrypt per GP. And yes secure boot is turned off during the imaging process, while UEFI and CSM is on.

                                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                  • imagingmaster21I
                                    imagingmaster21 @Sebastian Roth
                                    last edited by

                                    @sebastian-roth
                                    Below is the error that started all this.
                                    0_1513887665622_bitlocker nightmare.PNG

                                    Q 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                    • Q
                                      Quazz Moderator @imagingmaster21
                                      last edited by Quazz

                                      @imagingmaster21 Based on https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929834/error-message-when-you-try-to-run-the-bitlocker-drive-encryption-progr we now have some more insight on what’s going on.

                                      By default, FOG removes the pagefile and hibernation file. Because the hibernation file is removed, the path in the BCD is incorrect and Bitlocker refuses to activate.

                                      So, disable removing pagefile and hibernation under FOG Configuration -> FOG Settings -> General -> CAPTUREIGNOREPAGEHIBER (uncheck this).

                                      Then you have to recapture the image so the hibernation file is included. You’re using Windows 7 and thus don’t have to worry abouy hybrid boot (as opposed to Windows 8 and newer where you have to disable Fast Startup in power options)

                                      imagingmaster21I 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                      • imagingmaster21I
                                        imagingmaster21 @Quazz
                                        last edited by

                                        @quazz
                                        Thanks that fixed the issue!

                                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                        • 1 / 1
                                        • First post
                                          Last post

                                        215

                                        Online

                                        12.0k

                                        Users

                                        17.3k

                                        Topics

                                        155.2k

                                        Posts
                                        Copyright © 2012-2024 FOG Project