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@george1421 SetupComplete still isn’t executing. I can manually execute and it seems to work, but it doesn’t automatically. Any ideas?

@imagingmaster21 That’s what I’m working on now. Previously I wasn’t syspreping because I was scared of unattend. But others have convinced me I need to stop being a wuss and try to learn myself real good. I’m almost there. In fact as we speak I just sysprepped a reference image machine and I’m about to capture and test deploy it.

@george1421 Well I’ll be a son of a… Oh well. Ok. I went ahead and tried it anyway. Most of it seems to be ok, however my stepupcomplete.cmd doesn’t seem to want to run on its own. Is this because of the AD problem on the reference image? Or did I screw something else up? It worked previously on another test I did.

@george1421 So hypothetically speaking, if the reference image got joined to a domain by FOG(bad FOG, you should read my mind and only do that when I want you to), do I need to scrap it and start over?

I did find the WAP GPO, so that should be good to go now. The only thing I have in setupcomplete right now is the FOG restart.

@george1421 I found the autologin I think.

@george1421 So for future reference it doesn’t work. However when I removed it I now have a functional product. What part of your xml causes the login? Do you just put your additional commands in the windows\setup\scripts\setupcomplete.cmd file?

One of the things I’m trying to get implemented is autojoining a WAP without having to provide students with the password. I have found a script that will hypothetically work, but getting it implemented is worrying me.

So I’ve got a basic unattend file. It’s much shorter then yours. I’m depending on the FOGClient to domain the laptops. Is there a reason I shouldn’t do that? One question that I have is we want our computer names to match the SN, I’ve done a bunch of googling and I’m not sure the command I’ve got in the unattend will do it or not. Seems like there’s mixed opinions on it.

I’m about to run sysprep and do a test deployment.

Do you see anything on my unattend that obviously won’t work? Or something critical that I’m missing? My intent is for the computer to boot straight to login screen with 0 hands on from image.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
-<settings pass="specialize">
-<component language="neutral" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" versionScope="nonSxS" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" processorArchitecture="amd64" name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup">
-<OEMInformation>
<Manufacturer>Dell</Manufacturer>
<Model>Precision 7710</Model>
</OEMInformation>
<CopyProfile>true</CopyProfile>
<OEMName/>
<RegisteredOrganization>****************</RegisteredOrganization>
<RegisteredOwner>******************</RegisteredOwner>
<TimeZone>U.S. Mountain Standard Time</TimeZone>
<ComputerName>%SerialNumber%</ComputerName>
</component>
</settings>
-<settings pass="oobeSystem">
-<component language="neutral" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" versionScope="nonSxS" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" processorArchitecture="amd64" name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core">
<SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale>
<UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
<UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale>
<UILanguageFallback>en-US</UILanguageFallback>
<InputLocale>0409:00000409</InputLocale>
</component>
-<component language="neutral" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" versionScope="nonSxS" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" processorArchitecture="amd64" name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup">
-<OOBE>
<HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>
<HideOEMRegistrationScreen>true</HideOEMRegistrationScreen>
<HideOnlineAccountScreens>true</HideOnlineAccountScreens>
<HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>true</HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>
<ProtectYourPC>1</ProtectYourPC>
<UnattendEnableRetailDemo>false</UnattendEnableRetailDemo>
<HideLocalAccountScreen>true</HideLocalAccountScreen>
<NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation>
</OOBE>
-<UserAccounts>
-<LocalAccounts>
-<LocalAccount wcm:action="add">
-<Password>
<Value>**********************</Value>
<PlainText>false</PlainText>
</Password>
<Description> Admin Account</Description>
<DisplayName>Admin</DisplayName>
<Group>Administrators</Group>
<Name>admin</Name>
</LocalAccount>
</LocalAccounts>
</UserAccounts>
<RegisteredOrganization>**********************</RegisteredOrganization>
<RegisteredOwner>********************</RegisteredOwner>
<TimeZone>U.S. Mountain Standard Time</TimeZone>
</component>
</settings>
<cpi:offlineImage xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" cpi:source="wim:c:/wim/install.wim#Windows 10 Pro"/>
</unattend>

@george1421 Not sure if that was the problem but there was a BIOS update last month that I just pushed.

Some places I’m seeing say I need two unattend files? Is that true? I’m currently in Windows System Image Manager trying to build one. Do I just need to focus on the OOBE pass? Some places are talking about the specialize pass.

Philip

To add to the drama… The laptop I just tried installing a fresh windows onto hung on the blue windows symbol when booting from the bootable USB… WTF?

@joe-schmitt Okay. Back to the drawing board. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Time to go do research. Hopefully I’m smart enough to figure it out.

Philip

@joe-schmitt No… And here is where I’m going to get laughed at. I am a very inexperienced admin. I’ve only ever used SysPrep one time. When I did each image had to go through the entire initial configuration of Windows, where it asks for you to create a user, add keyboard settings ect…

Is there a way for me to run SysPrep and not require the initial setup on each laptop? We’re reimaging regularly, and having to have an admin go around to each computer to do the initial config is extremely annoying and time consuming… If we have to to avoid the hang on boot then I guess we’ll do it, but it seems like there has to be a way to do what I want, I just haven’t found it.

Philip

Good morning,

I am almost positive my problem is not with FOG, however I’m hoping that someone here will have run into it and can help me.

I’m running a Win10 Pro image on Dell Precision 7710 laptops with a 500GB SSD with the OS, and a 1TB Platter with other data(course material for the school I work for). Deploying from an Ubuntu server. Windows image was created on a ‘Master’ laptop. The full image was then captured from the Master and deployed to the student laptops.

The problem I’m running into, and that I’ve had even prior to FOG usage, is some laptops will hang on the initial Windows 10 blue icon. Only way to fix it is to power down and restart. Sometimes it hangs 3-4 times, then on the 5 time it will boot normally. The ‘master’ laptop doesn’t appear to have this problem. And some student laptops don’t seem to have the problem either.

I’ve tried doing the Windows ‘Startup Repair’ but it doesn’t fix it. Sometimes if it hangs 3-4 times in a row it’ll bring up the ‘Automatic Repair’ but that also doesn’t seem to do anything as the laptop can then hang right after the repair.

Anyone seen this, or have any idea how to fix it?

Thanks!

Philip

@wayne-workman So If I’m reading correctly essentially I would capture once using sda as the host primary, then change the host image association to a new image, change to primary sdb, capture again. Then essentially the same thing in reverse to push the images back to a new client?

First, thanks for all the help the community has already offered. It truely has been amazing to me how helpful everyone has been. I’ve run into numerous problems(due to my own fumble fingerness mostly) and have been able to solve most with searchs, and others have been answered within 30 minutes of posting the question.

So I have a somewhat unusual imaging problem(I think, maybe not). Basically the laptops that I’m working with have two drives. A 500 GB SSD for the OS and program files, and a 1TB platter for ISO’s, VM’s that kind of thing(We’re an IT schoolhouse).

I don’t always want to image the OS, sometimes I just want to redo the 1TB drive(and if I could capture/push seperately it would allow me to use the resizing option in FOG which is amazing). Is there a way to capture the two drives seperately, and subsequently push them seperately to the same clients?

Thanks again,

Philip

Wanted: To rename the host to the serial or asset tag upon image.

I’ve seen that this should be possible but I can’t find how to actually make this happen. I’m sure I’m missing something obvious in the Wiki or on here, but I can’t find anything other than a reference to ‘update you client name file’ on the Wiki, but it doesn’t say how or where to do this.

Can someone point me to the right link?

Thanks!

V/R
Philip

@george1421 Figured. Thanks. Can you mark this solved? I can’t see where I can do it. I’ll open another post if I run into something else I think I need your help with. Thanks again for your assistance.

@george1421 Alright. That’s working. Unfortunately another problem that I thought might occur has come to pass. It’s nothing you guys can help with I think though. The whitelist is blocking what FOG needs to install. I’ll have to figure this out. Probably grab a wireless hotspot to connect to at least for long enough to install.

I’ve been fighting with my superiors for months about this network being too restrictive. Ugg.

Thanks again.

@george1421 I can break the airgap for install I think. Really there’s no reason other than uneducated people above me for the airgap. Lord knows I’ve broken it to update my Windows servers before… Shhhhh. I’ll go try putting another NIC in the VM attached to the other network and let you know.

Thank you for quick responses.

It is virtual, using Hyper V. I can add an additional interface if that would help. And no, the isolated network is airgapped.

Good afternoon,

Been trying to get FOG installed on a clean Ubuntu 16.04 install. I’ll be running it on an established isolated net using 10.10.0.0 255.255.252.0. There is already a Windows Server 2012R2 server cluster running Domain services, DHCP, DNS, and File Services on that net. Currently I’ve got it hooked to a different net with internet access(ish, its run on a whitelist firewall that I don’t control) to install.

The problem I’m running into is that I can’t find a way to set the subnet during install. I see where it allows me to specify the IP it will have for production, but I can’t specify a subnet. I’ve tried different options like “10.10.0.10/22” or “10.10.0.10 255.255.252.0” but it just spits back a invalid input response.

Is there something I’m missing? Or do I just need to install using the wrong subnet, and is there a way to fix it after it’s installed?

Thanks!!!

Philip