Posts made by CamC

I stand by my assertion that you don’t [I]NEED[/I] to Sysprep, but its certainly a good idea.
According to Microsoft using Sysprep is the only supported method to clone windows.

[LEFT]As far as I know fog has nothing to do with the KMS system. [/LEFT]
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[LEFT]Il check what the CMIDs are on my computers when I get the chance. (slmgr /dlv )[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]you need to ether run sysprep on the master or run “slmgr /rearm” then “slmgr /ato” on the clients after imaging.[/LEFT]
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[LEFT]While Iv never needed to do this, I am using an unlimited KMS server so I guess our results may vary.[/LEFT]
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[quote=“silentsoul, post: 2269, member: 538”]If you ever use a KMS server on those machines you will still have problems. I was doing it the same way, and found out the GUID is likely the same on all the machines so they will not authenticate to the KMS server.

Sysprep is a MUST on windows 7 domain machines.[/quote]

I can confirm this to be [U]INCORRECT[/U], I have a fog deployment of about 1000 desktop/notebooks all of which are windows 7 using KMS.
Never used Sysprep.

All I do is unbind from the domain (and disable host rename in fog for the master computer)
ensure the KMS server is set correctly (using the slmgr commands)
Upload.
Download to clients.
no scripts needed, the fog service will deal with renaming/binding.

However I have had issues on an old acer where the kms refused to work.
Turns out windows 7 Licencing system uses some special function in the BIOS. A BIOS update rectified the issue.

I had trobles once with the file in /opt/fog/service/etc/config.php not containing the mySQL user/password.
I added the info in, restarted the service and it all began working.

[QUOTE]FOG doesnt care if you do or dont have the 100MB boot partition for Windows 7. Either way will work as intended :)[/QUOTE]
Even if using the “Single Partition (NTFS Only, Resizable)”?