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@agray said in Imaging an SSD:

When we get our next batch of new PCs in, I’ll see if that fixes it and respond here. Thank you!

Do those have 500 GB drives?

@agray You said you set the machine to legacy, and secure boot is off, but
1 did you enable CSM support?
2 did you change your boot order?
Please take a picture of your BIOS/UEFI settings so i can help as well.
Im interested in your boot page, CSM, boot order, and secure boot pages

@george1421 said in Windows Not Booting:

best hypervisor

What do you feel is the best Hypervisor for Imaging?

@george1421 said in Windows Not Booting:

But if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Very true!

@Sebastian-Roth said in Connecting FOG to Virtual Machine:

What host OS do you have VirtualBox installed on?

Windows 10

@Quazz said in Connecting FOG to Virtual Machine:

the PIIX3 one works fine though.

I changed my chipset to PIIX3 and it works! Thank you guys for the long headache relief!

@Quazz After running tests, it was Sophos that was causing the issue. Thank you!

@agray said in Issues with copying software configs?:

here are 13 people that will be using that PC. All accounts where set up, including IBM Notes, on the PC before Cloning.

Was this system sysprep’d? I know Lotus Notes (been a Domino admin on and off for almost 10 years). LN creates is config file in the user’s home %appdata% directory. Its possible that sysprep is cleaning out these directories where LN lives. I know post install you can just copy the notes data directory over from one computer to the next without any problems or needing to reactivate the account. With Notes 7, we were running the notes data directory from the user’s home drive without issue. That allowed users to roam between computers without needing to mess with local directories. Since then I understand LN now supports roaming profiles, but I digress.

@agray Yes, you should only have to answer the questions the first time, because the next time you run the setup script it pulls from the /opt/fog/.fogsettings file.

@agray Best to use the script (see the linked forum post on instructions) to change back your FOG IP to the one you have in the internet network (192.168.105.238). Then re-run the installer - hopefully running through. Now move your server back to the other network and again change its IP (now to 192.168.1.105) using the same script again.

No need for internet after the install. But if you ever need to re-run the installer… same procedure again.

@agray

static ip address management post install. Not a problem. DHCP is only required if you need to PXE boot into the FOG iPXE menu or for capture/deploy activity. After image deployment the target computer checks-in to the FOG server using the FOG Client service so that is how the FOG server knows about the target computer.

Driver install for single golden image. Its not easy, but not hard either. If you use Dell computers then Dell provides the driver cab files as you need them. You can look over these tutorials: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/11126/using-fog-postinstall-scripts-for-windows-driver-injection-2017-ed and https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/8889/fog-post-install-script-for-win-driver-injection for guidance. You will need a little linux experience to setup, but its not too hard.

MDT driver less: Yes you can. We will build our golden image using a virtual machine. We use ESXi virtualization, but you could use Hyper-V or VirtualBox to build your golden image. Then capture from that visualized machine. But I do recommend that you install the Dell Win10PE drivers in the Out of box drivers section to make your deployment life a bit easier. These are generic drivers that will allow your target computer to initially get connected to the network and talk to the storage device. There are plenty of how tos out there on how to setup and MDT environment. The deployment research web site is pretty handy too with info.