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@AngryScientist said in MAC Address Questions:

But much to my horror, the FOG client will task restart the host when connected to Wi-Fi, which ends up in a boot-loop and a very concerned end-user.

So to avoid this, just don’t create imaging tasks for laptops unless they are hooked up to the network with a patch cable, and leave all your MACs enabled so you can still use snapins.

I don’t know what your setup looks like or how your operations go where you are, but the way I did laptops in great numbers was I hooked up an 8 port 1Gbps switch on a big table, hooked that up to the building network, setup myself some power strips and some laptop adapters, and I used my pre-made FOG Groups to queue all of the turned-off laptops for unicast imaging. Then I hooked up 8 at a time and powered them on. When one completed imaging & domain joining & snapins, I shut it down afterwards and hooked up another.

That’s very promising to hear Wayne! I must admit that you shot beyond my skill set with your bash script and use of the API. I look forward to your “generic” solution!

The holidays have officially begun here, so I will be unable to check on anything until at least 1/5/2017

But yes, I will perform all your recommended steps upon my return.

Happy holidays everyone!

Some clarifications:

Snapins
A snapin is simply a way to get the client to run an executable. So why is there no EXE template? Well on windows .exe can simply be executed as is without a helper program. So no snapin fields have to be set. Imagine snapins like this:

Open a CMD prompt How do you want to perform your action? Is it an EXE? If so you just type MyProgram.exe and it runs. Want to run a batch script? You’d type something like cmd.exe /c MyScript.cmd. The bottom Snapin Command shows the end result of your snapin configuration

Snapin Packs
Now snapins are pretty limited, but that’s what legacy FOG was built with so we kept it for compatibility. In your post you say I generated a “SFX” silent printer installer that’s a work-a-round that snapins forced onto people. And when the new client introduced Linux and Mac support things like the SFX work-a-round were no longer viable as it’s Windows only.

So we came up with a concept being being able to “pack” up multiple files and deploy them using the pre-built snapin system (ergo “Snapin Pack”). I’ll admit we don’t have the best documentation when it comes to things like Snapins and Snapin Packs but it’s community driven documentation. Where people think it lacks, they add to the documentation.

@Wayne-Workman has done an awesome job providing almost all of the snapin pack documentation we have (https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=SnapinPacks).

The basic idea: zip up a bunch of files you need, and provide 1 runnable file/script in that zip to handle everything (e.g. a batch script to move all of your printer driver files in place).

@Wayne-Workman
Reset complete - Had to restart the host to get the data to update. Now we have the “next” issue. I have the fog printer management set to “FOG Only”. The User Client goes about its business, removes all printers, then installs the printer specified for that host in the server.

Except it doesn’t.

I now have very panicky users who are baffled that their printers vanished. I have changed the printer management level to FOG Managed to prevent the manually installed temp printer driver/software from being removed.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------PrinterManager-------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12/15/2016 12:41 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.5 12/15/2016 12:41 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 12/15/2016 12:41 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0-RC-21 12/15/2016 12:41 PM Middleware::Response No Printers 12/15/2016 12:41 PM PrinterManager Getting installed printers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------PrinterManager-------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12/15/2016 12:42 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.5 12/15/2016 12:42 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 12/15/2016 12:42 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0-RC-21 12/15/2016 12:42 PM Middleware::Response ERROR: Unable to get subsection 12/15/2016 12:42 PM Middleware::Response ERROR: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. **** Reset Encryption Data Again... **** **** Restarted Host **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------PrinterManager-------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.5 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0-RC-21 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Middleware::Response Success 12/15/2016 12:52 PM PrinterManager Getting installed printers 12/15/2016 12:52 PM PrinterManager Adding printers 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Printer Adding: (20) Tech Supply Color MFP 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Printer --> IP = 10.6.6.20 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Printer --> Port = 10.6.6.20 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Printer --> File = \\10.6.6.251\driver\HP_UPD_PCL6\hpcu190u.inf 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Printer --> Config = 12/15/2016 12:52 PM Printer --> Model = HP Universal Printing PCL 6 12/15/2016 12:52 PM PrinterManager PrintUI return code = 0 12/15/2016 12:52 PM PrinterManager Restarting spooler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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as for updating your host file something as simple as
echo "192.168.1.40 fog_server" >> c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts in a batch script should add the reference to the host file.
If you have a number of entries saved in a text file you could use something like type hupdate.txt >> c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts to update the file.

Disclaimer: I have not tested the commands above, they just came to me as I was typing, so YMMV.

@AngryScientist It would be interesting to know if the contents of your .fogsettings file is messed up and then upgrading caused the installer to look at bad data again??

My production server is running Centos 7, I think we are on RC34 and that upgraded cleanly.

@Wayne-Workman said in To SysPrep or Not, That is the Question.:

I don’t sysprep and I have heavily used KMS at work. I got around the threshold issue by using a “charger” program that I found online, this application just sends a bunch of fake requests to the KMS box until the threshold is reached. Then all computers in the environment happily activate without issue

In any case, this is definitely not the right way to do this.

If you’re not going to Sysprep and you are using KMS, you should be re-arming your Windows and Office installation immediately before capturing the image:

–Windows: slmgr -rearm
–Office: %OfficeProgramDirectory%\ospprearm.exe

For future readers: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Migrate_FOG

@AngryScientist In the web interface, in Storage Management. There’s a field called interface. Also, in FOG Configuration -> FOG Settings -> Multicast Settings -> FOG_UDPCAST_INTERFACE

@Wayne-Workman

Bad sectors on the hard drive caused disc part to fail after 2.7gb of 63gb, so I imagine windows was literally waiting to load files that did not exist… solved! Different machine, Fog uploaded the image and deployed it flawlessly!