Windows 7 Deployment FOG- SAD2 Driver tool
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[quote=“ssx4life, post: 2401, member: 268”]Fog service also pushes out software packages you can customize and build yourself. Can auto-shut down / log off / modify clients remotely (big help).
If you don’t want to use Active Directory for all your software pushing and updates it’s a great work-around solution.[/quote]
As SSX says, For me one of the best features of FOG is to deploy programs automatically. It’s one thing to save two hours installing windows 7, but it’s another game all together installing programs automatically after imagine. Saves time like you wouldn’t believe.
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is it possible to attach the latest cmd/text file that you use, i dont want to have missed anything out?
thanks
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Awesome guide. Trying to test this right now. Thanks OP!
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Nice feature In other words, how does the actual deploy method work?
Policy ? or does the package dploy with pxe boot?
I am whery curious about the agent, and the resources it uses on our clients.
The main reason that i have not considered the agent is that we have bad experience with this sort of agents, we where running Novel Zenworks before fog, and the agent from novel kille about 50% of our computers esepessially those with 1 gb ram or less. -
[quote=“falko, post: 2464, member: 48”]is it possible to attach the latest cmd/text file that you use, i dont want to have missed anything out?
thanks[/quote]
Here you go, I haven’t changed much, (Just to Stop/start FOG service, and clean a few things up) you can compare the differences yourself (if you use it, just remember to change it back to a .cmd file, it won’t let me upload .cmd files):
[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/85_DP_Install_Tool.txt?:”]DP_Install_Tool.txt[/url]
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thank you, your guide is truly awesome!!
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Andyroo54 would you be kind enough to go back to the original post in the thread and add the DP_Install_Tool.txt to the first entry? This will keep the thread uniform and simple to manage.
Also… if you could please upload an example of your .xml answer file for the community. Just a thought
p.s. i’m working on a tutorial for XP as well for all those legacy users holding out
–ssx–
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Hi all ive recently looked into this guide and use the dpinstall and sad tool, now for me the drivers get uncompressed with no problem at all, the issue i get is the drivers dont actually get installed in device manager, i have to click through to install each device driver any body got a trick to get this to work??
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[quote=“Darren George, post: 2711, member: 375”]Hi all ive recently looked into this guide and use the dpinstall and sad tool, now for me the drivers get uncompressed with no problem at all, the issue i get is the drivers dont actually get installed in device manager, i have to click through to install each device driver any body got a trick to get this to work??[/quote]
Hi Darren,I’d suggest testing the DPinstall tool on a PC that’s just been loaded with win 7 fresh, and running it manually. Get the version I specify in the guide I think it’s 1.111118, and run it. I’ve never had the problem where the drivers won’t install, so perhaps its a policy setting you’ve changed or something else, hence why you should try it on a totally fresh install of win 7.
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hey there guys, great guide but i have a problem with trying to boot into pxe, i get anerror stating that it cant read the hard drive size. it tells me to unmount the hard drive 1st. not sure what this means
PLEASE help
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[quote=“iphunt3r1, post: 2862, member: 932”]hey there guys, great guide but i have a problem with trying to boot into pxe, i get anerror stating that it cant read the hard drive size. it tells me to unmount the hard drive 1st. not sure what this means
PLEASE help[/quote]
Make sure you set your virtual machines’s HDD to IDE and not SCSI, for some reason FOG won’t pick up SCSI. Other than that, you might have more luck starting a thread in the help section. -
Is it possible to use VMPlayer instead of workstation for this? Thanks in advance!
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I don’t believe so. Player only plays existing VM’s, you need to build one from scratch.
Look into Virtual Box as a free alternative - [url]https://www.virtualbox.org/[/url]
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this is what I did;
I created a RunOnce registry input which will call the DP_install the first time that windows boots.
Example: DrvIns.reg
C:\Drivers\SAD2-111118\DP_Install_Tool.i have uploaded the file, please remember to rename it to drvins.reg
thx[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/102_Drvins.TXT?:”]Drvins.TXT[/url]
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I wish I’d found this guide about a week ago. Thanks to Andyroo54 for the hard work to get it together and the willingness to share it.
I’ve done essentially the same thing, but without the DP_Install_Tool. I do have a fundamental question on the efficacy of the process. I apologize in advance if I’ve misunderstood any of what’s been documented here. Just point out my error. So here’s what I think I understand:
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[]This whole process is an attempt to make an image that will work on a wide array of hardware platforms?
[]OS is installed
[]drivers are copied to a drivers dir on the machine prior to imaging (driver packs).
[]system is sysprep’d
[]System is uploaded
[]image is sent to some other PC, boots, sysprep runs, reboots, etc
[*]of the first logon on the new machine, DP_Install_Tool runs, with your defined alterations and drivers are installed, unused stuff is deleted.
[/LIST]
If all of the above is true, how does the OS boot the first time if the image knows nothing about critical chipset or mass storage drivers that are normally required to boot the OS? DP_Install_Tool runs after the first boot. It seems like a chicken and egg issue. How can the OS boot in the first place.
I’m sure I’ve got something wrong. If I don’t, the result would be the same as sysprep’ing XP without [OEMMassStorage] and all the effort that required to extract PnP IDs. In this scenario, a freshly imaged PC would deploy correctly, all drivers would load for new NICs, sound cards, graphics cards, etc., if and only if the chipset (almost all were) and the disk subsystem were supported by whatever was on the original MS OS CD (often a problem).
The process I’ve just started to use I believe solves this problem by “injecting” drivers into the image using DISM from a Winbuilder or WinPE boot CD. This is done between steps 4 and 5 above - post sysprep, pre-upload. The step uses the same driver packs, but extracted to a second ISO or run from a network share. Getting DISM to work correctly in a Winbuilder CD was the tough part. This step seems to require the OS drive not be in use.
If the guide give us a process that works for all devices, including mass storage, I’d rather us it than the one I’m using since it adds a different type of support cd and make the process a little more difficult. I’m just getting started on this, so the right direction really matters
Please advise.
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[quote=“Jim Graczyk, post: 3147, member: 931”]I wish I’d found this guide about a week ago. Thanks to Andyroo54 for the hard work to get it together and the willingness to share it.
I’ve done essentially the same thing, but without the DP_Install_Tool. I do have a fundamental question on the efficacy of the process. I apologize in advance if I’ve misunderstood any of what’s been documented here. Just point out my error. So here’s what I think I understand:
[LIST=1]
[]This whole process is an attempt to make an image that will work on a wide array of hardware platforms?
[]OS is installed
[]drivers are copied to a drivers dir on the machine prior to imaging (driver packs).
[]system is sysprep’d
[]System is uploaded
[]image is sent to some other PC, boots, sysprep runs, reboots, etc
[*]of the first logon on the new machine, DP_Install_Tool runs, with your defined alterations and drivers are installed, unused stuff is deleted.
[/LIST]
If all of the above is true, how does the OS boot the first time if the image knows nothing about critical chipset or mass storage drivers that are normally required to boot the OS? DP_Install_Tool runs after the first boot. It seems like a chicken and egg issue. How can the OS boot in the first place.[/quote]It can boot because Windows starts in OOBE, which is the process when you are installing windows 7 manually, for example, once windows is copied it says “Windows will now restart and installation will continue”. Windows then starts again, it scans the hardware and “installs devices” then “starting services”.
With the process I’ve outlined, the image is copied to the C drive of the new PC, and then windows starts in OOBE mode which is what I just outlined above.
You don’t need driver packs, windows 7 will install basically all essential drivers for pretty much an PC living or dead. I use driver packs after install, because occasionally windows 7 may not install a mass storage, or a wifi driver for example. Using driver packs after the OS is installed solves that problem.
I hope that clears that up, but remember, there is no right way to do it with FOG, this is just a guide that I made, based on one way that does work.
