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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

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      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: Windows 11/Future for Us

      I saw both of those requirements. This doesn’t look promising. I guess now it is less about the price and more about the ridiculous hoops to jump through. Also the GPLv3 thing is killer for us.

      posted in General
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    • RE: Windows 11/Future for Us

      @sebastian-roth Is this what we would have to do for the signing? This does seem over the top, but then again, I could be looking at the wrong thing.

      posted in General
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    • RE: Windows 11/Future for Us

      Just as an update to this post…We proceeded with moving away from FOG for the time being. We now use a paid solution. It was not a decision we made lightly and ultimately was due to ease of secure booting and bitlocker as well as a more streamlined way to push apps and scripts. It’s really not fair to compare these products because of the volunteer driven, open source free nature of FOG vs. a company who can pay the money easily for certs.

      However, I want FOG to find a champion like @Wayne-Workman said. I have been with two school districts who relied on FOG for many years. I know other districts who could not function without FOG right now as well. I still want to help where I can in the Forums though I have been inactive recently, I plan to change that. Just out of curiosity, how much would it cost to have Microsoft to sign the certs?

      posted in General
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    • RE: Windows 11/Future for Us

      @george1421 Really wacky question for you…Can you boot into something like Smart Deploy (they have a SmartPE environment they use) from FOG? I don’t know if you have the answer, but I would definitely prefer using FOG to boot into this rather than WDS.

      posted in General
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    • Windows 11/Future for Us

      Hi All,
      This is more of a general question about the future of FOG and possible FOG alternatives if the project is unable to support Secure Boot/Windows 11. I hate to post this here, but I don’t know anyone else on the internet who are bigger experts in imaging. I know in general this being an open source volunteer driven project, it is a big ask to support the big challenges Microsoft is throwing in the way of the project.

      I wanted to ask if anyone has any experience with any other solutions, please let me know. My organization would like to look at alternatives though we would be quite devastated if we had to move away from FOG since it has been our saving grace for 10+ years. If this is inappropriate to post here, I will gladly take this down.

      Thanks!

      posted in General
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    • RE: Move partitions on GPT layouts - need people to test

      @sebastian-roth Just a quick question, is there a place where I can get this init without moving to the dev branch? I am very compelled to stay on the stable branch at this time. Are the inits on fogproject.org this version, or the old stable ones?

      posted in General
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    • RE: Dell Vostro 470 - UEFI net boot fails

      @sebastian-roth we may have found a workaround since we have a uefi/bios co-existence setup, we are trying to legacy boot to capture/deploy the uefi image. It appears to have worked. I am not sure I want to pursue this issue further since it is a very old model and a one off case.

      I appreciate your help on the matter regardless, thank you.

      posted in Hardware Compatibility
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    • RE: Dell Vostro 470 - UEFI net boot fails

      @sebastian-roth thanks for the advice. I tried ipxe.efi and also tried compiling my own. Unfortunately both times I received the same error. I am wondering what else I could try if this is a fixable issue.

      posted in Hardware Compatibility
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    • Dell Vostro 470 - UEFI net boot fails

      Hi all,
      FOG 1.5.9, boot file snponly.efi, kernel 5.10.34 TomElliott.

      Get a strange error when trying to UEFI netboot an old Dell Vostro 470. It has the latest released firmware (A14 from 2018) and throws an error about edk2 (see below). It will not progress past this. I am wondering if this is due to the age of the pc model.
      vostro.jpg

      Let me know if you need any more details as I’m sure I left out an important detail or two by accident.

      Thanks!

      posted in Hardware Compatibility
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    • 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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