Inject HP and Lenovo drivers, applications such as Office, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, VLC media player and fonts like Garamond, and Avenir light, demi, and regular into the Windows 11 images

[professorb24]

Is it possible to inject HP and Lenovo drivers, applications such as Office, Google Chrome, etc… Is there also a way to inject fonts such as Garamond and Avenir Pro light, demi, and regular into customized Windows 11 image that I could create using FOG?

[george1421]

@professorb24 The quick answer is YES.

The bit longer answer is around your deployment techniques.

Lets go with the driver aspect first. I have a few tutorials around this (pertaining to windows 10 and earlier but should work with windows 11 too since its built on the windows 10 kernel). While this is an older tutorial its still accurate and functional: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/11126/using-fog-postinstall-scripts-for-windows-driver-injection-2017-ed Its just the unattend.xml section doesn’t work correctly now where there is a post that discusses using the pnputil.exe program called from the setupcomplete.cmd batch file.

For the applications and fonts, you can install them using FOG Snapins function to deploy those apps with FOG. Myself personally I would create a golden (mother) image and preload all of the apps that don’t use a GUID for identification (enterprise AV comes to mind) and preload them onto the golden image (using audit mode) prior to using sysprep and capturing the image with FOG. Then for one off or GUID based applications install them post deployment with FOG Snapins.

[professorb24]

@george1421 I tried adding the applications to the FOG snapins, and none of them would install using the FOG snapin function on the FOG server GUI. Can you please show me an example of using the FOG Snapins function?

[Tom Elliott]

@professorb24 First,

Creating your base image should include installing the software you need:

Fonts
VLC, Firefox, Chrome, Office, etc…

While it is “possible” to do so with snapins, this isn’t really the point of them.

is there a reason you couldn’t install these always needed things and capture the image with that?

Second

Drivers could be installed via Snapins, but probably better using the driver injection that George is talking about.

Third,
Snapins are handled like tasks.

You create the Snapins in the UI
Associate the snapins to the Host
Deploy the specific Snapins or the all associated snapins like you would any other task.

[professorb24]

@Tom-Elliott i’ve tried this fog.custominstall

Create the following file named fog.custominstall in the following path on the FOG server /images/postdownloadscripts.
Copy the content into that newly created file
#!/bin/bash
. /usr/share/fog/lib/funcs.sh
[[ -z $postdownpath ]] && postdownpath=“/images/postdownloadscripts/”
case $osid in
5|6|7|9)
clear
[[ ! -d /ntfs ]] && mkdir -p /ntfs
getHardDisk
if [[ -z $hd ]]; then
handleError “Could not find hdd to use”
fi
getPartitions $hd
for part in $parts; do
umount /ntfs >/dev/null 2>&1
fsTypeSetting “$part”
case $fstype in
ntfs)
dots “Testing partition $part”
ntfs-3g -o force,rw $part /ntfs
ntfsstatus=“$?”
if [[ ! $ntfsstatus -eq 0 ]]; then
echo “Skipped”
continue
fi
if [[ ! -d /ntfs/windows && ! -d /ntfs/Windows && ! -d /ntfs/WINDOWS ]]; then
echo “Not found”
umount /ntfs >/dev/null 2>&1
continue
fi
echo “Success”
break
;;
)
echo " * Partition $part not NTFS filesystem"
;;
esac
done
if [[ ! $ntfsstatus -eq 0 ]]; then
echo “Failed”
debugPause
handleError "Failed to mount $part ($0)\n Args: $"
fi
echo “Done”
debugPause
. ${postdownpath}fog.copydrivers
# . ${postdownpath}fog.updateunattend
umount /ntfs
;;
*)
echo “Non-Windows Deployment”
debugPause
return
;;
esac

Save and exit your text editor.
Make the script executable with chmod 755 /images/postdownloadscripts/fog.custominstall **this part i get chmod: cannot * chmod 755 ‘/images/postdownloadscripts/fog.custominstall’ :No such file or directory please help!!!
fog.copydrivers

Create the following file named fog.copydrivers in the following path on the FOG server /images/postdownloadscripts.
Copy the content into that newly created file
#!/bin/bash
ceol=tput el;
manu=dmidecode -s system-manufacturer;
dots “Identifying hardware”
case $manu in
[Ll][Ee][Nn][Oo][Vv][Oo])
machine=$(dmidecode -s system-version)
;;
[Dd][Ee][Ll][Ll])
machine=$(dmidecode -s system-product-name)
;;
I[Nn][Tt][Ee][Ll])
# For the Intel NUC and intel mobo pick up the system type from the
# baseboard product name
machine=$(dmidecode -s baseboard-product-name)
;;
*)
# Technically, we can remove the Dell entry above as it is the same as this [default]
machine=$(dmidecode -s system-product-name)
;;
esac

if the machine isn’t identified then no need to continue with this script, just return to caller

if [[ -z $machine ]]; then
echo “Unable to identify the hardware for manufacturer ${manu}”;
debugPause;
return;
fi
echo “${machine} Identified”;

Removes Spaces in machine name, works better with path definitions

machine=“${machine%”${machine##*[![:space:]]}“}”;

14-Sep-23 Jeffrey Boulais posted that the above code did not work for his install. He

supplied this code as an alternative. If you run in to a problem using my code

comment out my code and see if his code works better for your installation. The

only right way is the one that works. Thank you Jeff for your input.

machine=“$(echo -e “${machine}” | tr -d ‘[:space:]’)”

03-Jan-24 marsface posted that he could not get either of the two above machine clean up commands to work correctly so he provided this one below which worked for him.

machine=“${machine//[[:space:]]/}”

dots “Verifying we’ve found the OS disk”
if [[ ! -d /ntfs/windows && ! -d /ntfs/Windows && ! -d /ntfs/WINDOWS ]]; then
echo “! OS root Not found !”;
debugPause
return;
fi
echo “Found”;

dots “Verifying target Arch”
system64=“/ntfs/Windows/SysWOW64/regedit.exe”
[[ ! -f $system64 ]] && arch=“x86” || arch=“x64”
echo “${arch} found”;

debugPause

set osn path names based on the osid set in the FOG WebGui

case $osid in
5) osn=“win7” ;;
6) osn=“win8” ;;
7) osn=“win8.1” ;;
9) osn=“win10” ;;
esac

dots “Preparing Drivers”
clientdriverpath=“/ntfs/Drivers”
remotedriverpath=“/images/drivers/$machine/$osn/$arch”

debugPause

if [[ ! -d “${remotedriverpath}” ]]; then
echo “failed”;
echo " ! Driver package not found for ${machine}/$osn/$arch ! ";
debugPause;
return;
fi
echo “Ready”;

debugPause

[[ ! -d $clientdriverpath ]] && mkdir -p “$clientdriverpath” >/dev/null 2>&1
echo -n “In Progress”

rsync -aqz “$remotedriverpath” “$clientdriverpath” >/dev/null 2>&1

[[ ! $? -eq 0 ]] && handleError “Failed to download driver information for [$machine/$osn/$arch]”

debugPause