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    Paul Fry

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    Technical support specialist at a public school district. I maintain the district's FOG implementation.

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    • RE: Fog Service causes sysprep to fail

      Hi @GFm
      I had the same issue in the past. The reason this is happening is that the newer revisions of the FOG client are much more efficient than the legacy client. It is basically kicking in too early. The way to fix this is to disable the service before you sysprep it pre-capture (best practice for the FOG Client). You then use the setupcomplete.cmd method shown in this Wiki Article:

      https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOG_Client#FOG_Client_with_Sysprep

      You are basically telling it to re-enable and start the FOG service after sysprep is finished.

      posted in FOG Problems
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    • RE: FOG 1.3.0 Release Candidate 1

      Installing as we speak. Well done! Though I recently joined the active community for this project, I’ve been using FOG since the 0.29 days and am amazed to see where the project is now. It’s come a long way to say the least. You take tools like this for granted when you are forced to do it the old fashioned way. I (briefly) worked IT at a factory that refused to implement any imaging solution. Each PC was built from OEM Windows from scratch. It sucked.

      I’m glad to be back using my favorite open source project out there. Though most things we use at my job are proprietary, the support for FOG far surpasses any paid software. I can literally post on the forums and hear from a moderator, developer, or the legendary Tom Elliott himself within the hour. Even early in the morning!

      I’m already thinking in the future, but I must ask, will the trunk style of updating disappear once the final revision of 1.3 is out? It would be bittersweet to lose that. On one hand you have the obligatory bugs that come with any testing, but being on the cutting edge of a growing project is actually pretty cool.

      But I digress, keep up the good work guys and kudos for the dedication to the project. I look forward to the 1.3 release party 🙂

      posted in Announcements
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    • RE: Black Screen on Surface Pro 4

      @Wayne-Workman I figured it out! I’m actually kinda proud of this one. Please see below for all of my Windows Server 2012 configs

      0_1469703766129_Capturesurf.PNG

      0_1469703772548_Capturesurf2.PNG

      Please let me know if you need anything else for this. It did indeed work. Thank you so much!

      posted in FOG Problems
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    • RE: FOG 1.3.0 Officially Released

      Congratulations everyone! I’m actually going to miss trunk/svn/RC’s in a weird way lol.

      posted in Announcements
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    • RE: Maybe the USB cable is bad

      @Quazz I just tried both arguments on a surface pro 4. As long as you put

      usbcore.old_scheme_first=1
      

      before

      has_usb_nic=1
      

      separated by a space like you said, it works with no errors.

      posted in Hardware Compatibility
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    • RE: Stuck at Task Management Page "Unable to start task. Unable to upload file"

      @Sebastian-Roth said in Stuck at Task Management Page "Unable to start task. Unable to upload file":

      Not because it’s screwed but because more often than not you can learn something by re-doing things.

      Amen to that. I learned Linux basics and the finer capabilities of FOG from rebuilding from scratch. Most people who use FOG seem to inherit an old installation from the last regime, myself included. I tried to fix what was there but it was poorly set up and unstable. It took some convincing and getting my hands dirty but I am on Trunk and loving it.

      posted in Linux Problems
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    • RE: FOG Client Last Check-in Report

      @george1421 I took a complete 180 on the methodology on this problem with the help of my co-worker who is better with Powershell than I am. Below is the sanitized version of our simple script to check Domain PC’s for the FOG Client:

      ForEach ($Computer in (Get-ADComputer -Filter * -SearchBase "OU=Sample,DC=yourdomain,DC=com")) {
      $ComputerName = $Computer.Name
      If (Test-Connection $ComputerName -Count 1 -Quiet) {
          $FogService = Get-Service -Name FogService -ComputerName $ComputerName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
              If ($FogService) { Write-Output "FOG is running on $ComputerName" | Out-File C:\Scripts\FOG.csv -Append}
              Else {Write-Output "FOG is not running on $ComputerName" | Out-File C:\Scripts\FOG.csv -Append }}
      Else {Write-Output "$ComputerName is Offline" | Out-File C:\Scripts\FOG.csv -Append}
      }
      

      It isn’t the prettiest, but it is versatile in the way that you can really sub the FOGService with any other service name to check if said service is installed and running. I have a initial CSV for the online PC’s that had a broken or not installed FOG Client and set a GPO Startup script to remove any old service, install the new service, and finally start the service. Below is a sanitized batch file for that:

      msiexec /q /x C:\LegacyClientInstaller\FOG Service Installer.msi"
      msiexec /i "C:\NewClientInstaller" /quiet USETRAY="0" HTTPS="0" WEBADDRESS="YourFOGAddress" WEBROOT="/fog" ROOTLOG="1"
      net start FOGService
      

      Hope this may help someone someday!

      posted in General
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    • RE: Surface Pro 4 unable to image

      I just recently used FOG to create a surface pro 4 image. My workaround was to use a port replicator/hub to have both an external USB keyboard and Ethernet adapter plugged into the surface. It seemed to recognize both. It isn’t a permanent solution but It is how I did it.

      posted in FOG Problems
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    • RE: FOG 1.5.6 pushbullet Plugin not functioning

      So, this is really dumb on my part… It was our web filter blocking the calls out to pushbullet. It now displays the email and name in the table and the GUI after I whitelisted it. I will double check that notifications are working tomorrow, but this is looking like a whoopsie on my part. Most likely solved.

      posted in Bug Reports
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    • RE: Snapin script interrupted by Hostname Changer before completion (I think)

      @ITSolutions I suppose my method is a band-aid fix of sorts. At my place of work, we are moving to standardize the models of PC’s we are putting in. By the time next school year starts, we will have about 75% of all of the PC’s in the network be Dell Optiplex 5040’s. Ultimately, we are going the model-specific route of images since we only have a handful of models we use. I agree with what you are saying though.

      posted in FOG Problems
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    Latest posts made by fry_p

    • RE: Lenovo T495s Imaging issue

      @sebastian-roth @george1421 I may have posted this thread prematurely. I ended up having my colleague try a different type of Ethernet dongle (USB-C vs regular USB) and that did seem to fix the halting issue. I can verify tomorrow, but I think that message in the picture is still there, it just keeps imaging until complete now. I also found out a nice new BIOS came out for this model, so it is possible an update can fix the message. I can test the bios update with one at some point, but we are pretty busy with students returning next Tuesday in person.
      I think we can mark as solved in the meantime.

      posted in FOG Problems
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    • RE: Lenovo T495s Imaging issue

      @george1421 To my knowledge they are. I am gathering info this afternoon about it and will check a problem device tomorrow morning.

      posted in FOG Problems
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    • Lenovo T495s Imaging issue

      Hi All,
      I have a batch of T495s laptops we are working through imaging. Everything was going well up until today when we started to get the error below that halted the deployment process.

      IMG_9037_20210112_144919.jpg

      Nothing has changed on our side (FOG 1.5.9, 5.6.18 kernel). It went from one laptop displaying this on attempt #1 and working the second attempt, to a laptop that now has failed 3 times in a row.

      Please advise and please tell me what info I missed here since I most certainly forgot to include one thing or another. I can get my hands on one tomorrow to test with.
      Thanks!

      posted in FOG Problems
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    • RE: FOG is in GitHub's arctic code vault

      I am totally geeking out hearing this! The film technology they used is also quite fascinating.

      posted in General
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    • RE: Lenovo Dock/MAC Passthrough Settings

      @george1421 You have a great point. I discussed it with the boss, and we went the path of no client on the laptops. It is a relatively small number right now that need a somewhat quick turnaround. I figure we can bang out renaming and joining manually for these. Perhaps I will investigate other methods if there is a future order or it is the direction we end up going. Thanks!

      posted in Hardware Compatibility
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    • RE: WebUI not deleting images in file system

      I’m still on 1.5.6 and this doesn’t work for me. Honestly it has not worked in many iterations of FOG prior either. I usually just go into the VM and manually remove them after I delete the definitions in the GUI. Thought it was just a bug on my end.

      posted in Bug Reports
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    • Lenovo Dock/MAC Passthrough Settings

      Hi All,
      Apologies for my absence. I am not much better than when I went on leave from work back in February, but here I am. For the first time in months, I will be working on something FOG related 🙂

      I am tasked with imaging a bunch of Lenovo T495S laptops. We see the following behavior on the T495S laptops and our X1 Carbons that are already deployed. Neither of these devices have an integrated Ethernet NIC (i hate this).

      To remedy the whole “missing a vital component of a modern enterprise computer” thing we use a pair of Lenovo docks. We currently have a Gen 1 Lenovo USB-C dock and a separate Gen 2 Lenovo USB-C dock.

      The problem is that we are presented with two options: Use the docks’ MAC addresses to image the laptops, thus having to join the domain and name each manually, or somehow make MAC pass through (an option to enable in the BIOS) work.

      It seems that though the docks have their own MAC’s, there is also an internal MAC for a Lenovo accessory that turns a special usb-c port on the side into an Ethernet port. With using the dock, we are always stuck using each of the two Dock MACs for imaging. We cannot do full registration because it only recognizes the two docks, not anything with the devices themselves. Auto-Naming/registering/joining is not an option using the docks because of 2 MACs vs like 50 Laptops.

      Regarding MAC pass through, the devices PXE boot and load into the fog menu perfectly with the correct internal MAC. However if you go anywhere past that (deploy image or Full Registration) it hangs up and times out. I see when it tries to use the Dock MAC to start any task past the FOG menu.

      So, it seems the pass through breaks somewhere in the PXE environment and it reverts to the Dock MAC.

      So our options are currently order a couple of the special Lenovo Accessory ports and cross our fingers that the dock mac elimination fixes this (back ordered until Mid-July though) or to try to see if getting pass through working is feasible. I am working from home 95% of the time, but please let me know any info you need for the next time I go in. We are still 1.5.6 and are willing to upgrade to 1.5.8 if need be. As always, CentOS 7 is the OS and client is…whatever shipped with 1.5.6 (I’m so out of touch I forget what version…)

      Thanks folks!

      posted in Hardware Compatibility
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    • RE: Image deployed to laptop but hangs at Exiting PXE boot when not hardwired

      @rinfog I apologize, I am away from the project as I am home recovering from surgery. I will certainly bump this for visibility.

      posted in General Problems
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    • RE: FOG Client 0.11.18 Officially Released

      @Sebastian-Roth and anyone else who worked on this, great work on continually improving the client that some of us rely so heavily on!

      posted in Announcements
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    • RE: About image acquisition error.

      @celikbilek

      Did you happen to change the “fogproject” user account’s password on the Server? This account is only meant as a service account for FOG and is not meant to be used to manage fog. If you did, you must match the passwords in the following places:

       Web Interface -> Storage Management -> [Your storage node] -> Management Username & Management Password
      
      Web Interface -> FOG Configuration -> FOG Settings -> TFTP Server -> FOG_TFTP_FTP_USERNAME & FOG_TFTP_FTP_PASSWORD
      
      The local 'fogproject' user's password on the Linux FOG server
      
      Server file: /opt/fog/.fogsettings -> password 
      

      The easiest method on fixing this if you did change the service account password (fogproject) on the server is to change that password on Ubuntu to match the other locations by doing this

      sudo -i
      passwd fogproject 
      

      You will be prompted to enter a new password. Please ensure it matches the password elsewhere.

      posted in FOG Problems
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