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@Sebastian-Roth I tried out your init from the previously referenced post. Great Success!

However I figure you should be aware of a slight bug in them, it seems there’s an invalid grep line somewhere, it says no argument – ‘V’ exists and then outputs the grep help text. It does this repeatedly so it’s probably in a function somewhere.

Here’s the full debug output using your init.

[Tue Oct 31 root@fogclient ~]# fog
 * Running post init scripts.........................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue
   ==================================
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   ===      ====  ====  ==  =========
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   ===  ========  ====  ==  ====  ===
   ===  =========  ==  ===   ==   ===
   ===  ==========    =====      ====
   ==================================
   ===== Free Opensource Ghost ======
   ==================================
   ============ Credits =============
   = https://fogproject.org/Credits =
   ==================================
   == Released under GPL Version 3 ==
   ==================================
   Version: 69
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Verifying network interface configuration.........Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Checking Operating System.........................Windows 10
 * Checking CPU Cores................................4
 * Send method.......................................NFS
 * Attempting to check in............................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Mounting File System..............................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Checking Mounted File System......................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Checking img variable is set......................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Attempting to send inventory......................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Using Image: Base
 * Looking for Hard Disk.............................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Using Disk: /dev/sda
 * Enabling write cache..............................Enabled
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Using Hard Disk: /dev/sda
 * Preparing Partition layout
 * Erasing current MBR/GPT Tables....................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Restoring Partition Tables (GPT)..................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Attempting to expand/fill partitions..............Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

   +--------------------------------+
   |   Attempting to deploy image   |
   +--------------------------------+
   |         Using Partclone        |
   +--------------------------------+
 * Processing Partition: /dev/sda1 (1)
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Imaging using Partclone (zstd)
Cloned successfully.
grep: invalid option -- 'V'
BusyBox v1.26.2 (2017-04-21 16:11:45 EDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: grep [-HhnlLoqvsriwFE] [-m N] [-A/B/C N] PATTERN/-e PATTERN.../-f FILE [FILE]...

Search for PATTERN in FILEs (or stdin)

        -H      Add 'filename:' prefix
        -h      Do not add 'filename:' prefix
        -n      Add 'line_no:' prefix
        -l      Show only names of files that match
        -L      Show only names of files that don't match
        -c      Show only count of matching lines
        -o      Show only the matching part of line
        -q      Quiet. Return 0 if PATTERN is found, 1 otherwise
        -v      Select non-matching lines
        -s      Suppress open and read errors
        -r      Recurse
        -i      Ignore case
        -w      Match whole words only
        -x      Match whole lines only
        -F      PATTERN is a literal (not regexp)
        -E      PATTERN is an extended regexp
        -m N    Match up to N times per file
        -A N    Print N lines of trailing context
        -B N    Print N lines of leading context
        -C N    Same as '-A N -B N'
        -e PTRN Pattern to match
        -f FILE Read pattern from file
 * Clearing ntfs flag................................Done
 * Not expanding (/dev/sda1) fixed size
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Processing Partition: /dev/sda2 (2)
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Imaging using Partclone (zstd)
Cloned successfully.
Cloned successfully.
grep: invalid option -- 'V'
BusyBox v1.26.2 (2017-04-21 16:11:45 EDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: grep [-HhnlLoqvsriwFE] [-m N] [-A/B/C N] PATTERN/-e PATTERN.../-f FILE [FILE]...

Search for PATTERN in FILEs (or stdin)

        -H      Add 'filename:' prefix
        -h      Do not add 'filename:' prefix
        -n      Add 'line_no:' prefix
        -l      Show only names of files that match
        -L      Show only names of files that don't match
        -c      Show only count of matching lines
        -o      Show only the matching part of line
        -q      Quiet. Return 0 if PATTERN is found, 1 otherwise
        -v      Select non-matching lines
        -s      Suppress open and read errors
        -r      Recurse
        -i      Ignore case
        -w      Match whole words only
        -x      Match whole lines only
        -F      PATTERN is a literal (not regexp)
        -E      PATTERN is an extended regexp
        -m N    Match up to N times per file
        -A N    Print N lines of trailing context
        -B N    Print N lines of leading context
        -C N    Same as '-A N -B N'
        -e PTRN Pattern to match
        -f FILE Read pattern from file
 * Not expanding (/dev/sda2) fixed size
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Processing Partition: /dev/sda3 (3)
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Imaging using Partclone (zstd)
Cloned successfully.
grep: invalid option -- 'V'
BusyBox v1.26.2 (2017-04-21 16:11:45 EDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: grep [-HhnlLoqvsriwFE] [-m N] [-A/B/C N] PATTERN/-e PATTERN.../-f FILE [FILE]...

Search for PATTERN in FILEs (or stdin)

        -H      Add 'filename:' prefix
        -h      Do not add 'filename:' prefix
        -n      Add 'line_no:' prefix
        -l      Show only names of files that match
        -L      Show only names of files that don't match
        -c      Show only count of matching lines
        -o      Show only the matching part of line
        -q      Quiet. Return 0 if PATTERN is found, 1 otherwise
        -v      Select non-matching lines
        -s      Suppress open and read errors
        -r      Recurse
        -i      Ignore case
        -w      Match whole words only
        -x      Match whole lines only
        -F      PATTERN is a literal (not regexp)
        -E      PATTERN is an extended regexp
        -m N    Match up to N times per file
        -A N    Print N lines of trailing context
        -B N    Print N lines of leading context
        -C N    Same as '-A N -B N'
        -e PTRN Pattern to match
        -f FILE Read pattern from file
 * Not expanding (/dev/sda3) fixed size
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Processing Partition: /dev/sda4 (4)
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Imaging using Partclone (zstd)
Cloned successfully.
grep: invalid option -- 'V'
BusyBox v1.26.2 (2017-04-21 16:11:45 EDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: grep [-HhnlLoqvsriwFE] [-m N] [-A/B/C N] PATTERN/-e PATTERN.../-f FILE [FILE]...

Search for PATTERN in FILEs (or stdin)

        -H      Add 'filename:' prefix
        -h      Do not add 'filename:' prefix
        -n      Add 'line_no:' prefix
        -l      Show only names of files that match
        -L      Show only names of files that don't match
        -c      Show only count of matching lines
        -o      Show only the matching part of line
        -q      Quiet. Return 0 if PATTERN is found, 1 otherwise
        -v      Select non-matching lines
        -s      Suppress open and read errors
        -r      Recurse
        -i      Ignore case
        -w      Match whole words only
        -x      Match whole lines only
        -F      PATTERN is a literal (not regexp)
        -E      PATTERN is an extended regexp
        -m N    Match up to N times per file
        -A N    Print N lines of trailing context
        -B N    Print N lines of leading context
        -C N    Same as '-A N -B N'
        -e PTRN Pattern to match
        -f FILE Read pattern from file
 * Clearing ntfs flag................................Done
grep: invalid option -- 'V'
BusyBox v1.26.2 (2017-04-21 16:11:45 EDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: grep [-HhnlLoqvsriwFE] [-m N] [-A/B/C N] PATTERN/-e PATTERN.../-f FILE [FILE]...

Search for PATTERN in FILEs (or stdin)

        -H      Add 'filename:' prefix
        -h      Do not add 'filename:' prefix
        -n      Add 'line_no:' prefix
        -l      Show only names of files that match
        -L      Show only names of files that don't match
        -c      Show only count of matching lines
        -o      Show only the matching part of line
        -q      Quiet. Return 0 if PATTERN is found, 1 otherwise
        -v      Select non-matching lines
        -s      Suppress open and read errors
        -r      Recurse
        -i      Ignore case
        -w      Match whole words only
        -x      Match whole lines only
        -F      PATTERN is a literal (not regexp)
        -E      PATTERN is an extended regexp
        -m N    Match up to N times per file
        -A N    Print N lines of trailing context
        -B N    Print N lines of leading context
        -C N    Same as '-A N -B N'
        -e PTRN Pattern to match
        -f FILE Read pattern from file
 * Resizing ntfs volume (/dev/sda4)..................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

grep: invalid option -- 'V'
BusyBox v1.26.2 (2017-04-21 16:11:45 EDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: grep [-HhnlLoqvsriwFE] [-m N] [-A/B/C N] PATTERN/-e PATTERN.../-f FILE [FILE]...

Search for PATTERN in FILEs (or stdin)

        -H      Add 'filename:' prefix
        -h      Do not add 'filename:' prefix
        -n      Add 'line_no:' prefix
        -l      Show only names of files that match
        -L      Show only names of files that don't match
        -c      Show only count of matching lines
        -o      Show only the matching part of line
        -q      Quiet. Return 0 if PATTERN is found, 1 otherwise
        -v      Select non-matching lines
        -s      Suppress open and read errors
        -r      Recurse
        -i      Ignore case
        -w      Match whole words only
        -x      Match whole lines only
        -F      PATTERN is a literal (not regexp)
        -E      PATTERN is an extended regexp
        -m N    Match up to N times per file
        -A N    Print N lines of trailing context
        -B N    Print N lines of leading context
        -C N    Same as '-A N -B N'
        -e PTRN Pattern to match
        -f FILE Read pattern from file
 * Clearing ntfs flag................................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Resetting UUIDs for /dev/sda
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Disk UUID being set to............................c58db304-0143-4807-8553-c3fe3a63572e
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

grep: invalid option -- 'V'
BusyBox v1.26.2 (2017-04-21 16:11:45 EDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: grep [-HhnlLoqvsriwFE] [-m N] [-A/B/C N] PATTERN/-e PATTERN.../-f FILE [FILE]...

Search for PATTERN in FILEs (or stdin)

        -H      Add 'filename:' prefix
        -h      Do not add 'filename:' prefix
        -n      Add 'line_no:' prefix
        -l      Show only names of files that match
        -L      Show only names of files that don't match
        -c      Show only count of matching lines
        -o      Show only the matching part of line
        -q      Quiet. Return 0 if PATTERN is found, 1 otherwise
        -v      Select non-matching lines
        -s      Suppress open and read errors
        -r      Recurse
        -i      Ignore case
        -w      Match whole words only
        -x      Match whole lines only
        -F      PATTERN is a literal (not regexp)
        -E      PATTERN is an extended regexp
        -m N    Match up to N times per file
        -A N    Print N lines of trailing context
        -B N    Print N lines of leading context
        -C N    Same as '-A N -B N'
        -e PTRN Pattern to match
        -f FILE Read pattern from file
 * Partition type being set to.......................1:de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Partition uuid being set to.......................1:6ca9bc0a-b068-431e-ad37-42ebcc1180c9
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

grep: invalid option -- 'V'
BusyBox v1.26.2 (2017-04-21 16:11:45 EDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: grep [-HhnlLoqvsriwFE] [-m N] [-A/B/C N] PATTERN/-e PATTERN.../-f FILE [FILE]...

Search for PATTERN in FILEs (or stdin)

        -H      Add 'filename:' prefix
        -h      Do not add 'filename:' prefix
        -n      Add 'line_no:' prefix
        -l      Show only names of files that match
        -L      Show only names of files that don't match
        -c      Show only count of matching lines
        -o      Show only the matching part of line
        -q      Quiet. Return 0 if PATTERN is found, 1 otherwise
        -v      Select non-matching lines
        -s      Suppress open and read errors
        -r      Recurse
        -i      Ignore case
        -w      Match whole words only
        -x      Match whole lines only
        -F      PATTERN is a literal (not regexp)
        -E      PATTERN is an extended regexp
        -m N    Match up to N times per file
        -A N    Print N lines of trailing context
        -B N    Print N lines of leading context
        -C N    Same as '-A N -B N'
        -e PTRN Pattern to match
        -f FILE Read pattern from file
 * Partition type being set to.......................2:c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Partition uuid being set to.......................2:5edc0547-686e-4397-bdd2-43bfae201e45
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

grep: invalid option -- 'V'
BusyBox v1.26.2 (2017-04-21 16:11:45 EDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: grep [-HhnlLoqvsriwFE] [-m N] [-A/B/C N] PATTERN/-e PATTERN.../-f FILE [FILE]...

Search for PATTERN in FILEs (or stdin)

        -H      Add 'filename:' prefix
        -h      Do not add 'filename:' prefix
        -n      Add 'line_no:' prefix
        -l      Show only names of files that match
        -L      Show only names of files that don't match
        -c      Show only count of matching lines
        -o      Show only the matching part of line
        -q      Quiet. Return 0 if PATTERN is found, 1 otherwise
        -v      Select non-matching lines
        -s      Suppress open and read errors
        -r      Recurse
        -i      Ignore case
        -w      Match whole words only
        -x      Match whole lines only
        -F      PATTERN is a literal (not regexp)
        -E      PATTERN is an extended regexp
        -m N    Match up to N times per file
        -A N    Print N lines of trailing context
        -B N    Print N lines of leading context
        -C N    Same as '-A N -B N'
        -e PTRN Pattern to match
        -f FILE Read pattern from file
 * Partition type being set to.......................3:e3c9e316-0b5c-4db8-817d-f92df00215ae
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Partition uuid being set to.......................3:7d352040-d03c-420a-b307-53242b97e4bf
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

grep: invalid option -- 'V'
BusyBox v1.26.2 (2017-04-21 16:11:45 EDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: grep [-HhnlLoqvsriwFE] [-m N] [-A/B/C N] PATTERN/-e PATTERN.../-f FILE [FILE]...

Search for PATTERN in FILEs (or stdin)

        -H      Add 'filename:' prefix
        -h      Do not add 'filename:' prefix
        -n      Add 'line_no:' prefix
        -l      Show only names of files that match
        -L      Show only names of files that don't match
        -c      Show only count of matching lines
        -o      Show only the matching part of line
        -q      Quiet. Return 0 if PATTERN is found, 1 otherwise
        -v      Select non-matching lines
        -s      Suppress open and read errors
        -r      Recurse
        -i      Ignore case
        -w      Match whole words only
        -x      Match whole lines only
        -F      PATTERN is a literal (not regexp)
        -E      PATTERN is an extended regexp
        -m N    Match up to N times per file
        -A N    Print N lines of trailing context
        -B N    Print N lines of leading context
        -C N    Same as '-A N -B N'
        -e PTRN Pattern to match
        -f FILE Read pattern from file
 * Partition type being set to.......................4:ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Partition uuid being set to.......................4:fe34efcf-4975-4988-9076-08cca3e7630d
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Resetting swap systems
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Stopping FOG Status Reporter......................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

grep: invalid option -- 'V'
BusyBox v1.26.2 (2017-04-21 16:11:45 EDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: grep [-HhnlLoqvsriwFE] [-m N] [-A/B/C N] PATTERN/-e PATTERN.../-f FILE [FILE]...

Search for PATTERN in FILEs (or stdin)

        -H      Add 'filename:' prefix
        -h      Do not add 'filename:' prefix
        -n      Add 'line_no:' prefix
        -l      Show only names of files that match
        -L      Show only names of files that don't match
        -c      Show only count of matching lines
        -o      Show only the matching part of line
        -q      Quiet. Return 0 if PATTERN is found, 1 otherwise
        -v      Select non-matching lines
        -s      Suppress open and read errors
        -r      Recurse
        -i      Ignore case
        -w      Match whole words only
        -x      Match whole lines only
        -F      PATTERN is a literal (not regexp)
        -E      PATTERN is an extended regexp
        -m N    Match up to N times per file
        -A N    Print N lines of trailing context
        -B N    Print N lines of leading context
        -C N    Same as '-A N -B N'
        -e PTRN Pattern to match
        -f FILE Read pattern from file
 * Mounting directory................................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

grep: invalid option -- 'V'
BusyBox v1.26.2 (2017-04-21 16:11:45 EDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: grep [-HhnlLoqvsriwFE] [-m N] [-A/B/C N] PATTERN/-e PATTERN.../-f FILE [FILE]...

Search for PATTERN in FILEs (or stdin)

        -H      Add 'filename:' prefix
        -h      Do not add 'filename:' prefix
        -n      Add 'line_no:' prefix
        -l      Show only names of files that match
        -L      Show only names of files that don't match
        -c      Show only count of matching lines
        -o      Show only the matching part of line
        -q      Quiet. Return 0 if PATTERN is found, 1 otherwise
        -v      Select non-matching lines
        -s      Suppress open and read errors
        -r      Recurse
        -i      Ignore case
        -w      Match whole words only
        -x      Match whole lines only
        -F      PATTERN is a literal (not regexp)
        -E      PATTERN is an extended regexp
        -m N    Match up to N times per file
        -A N    Print N lines of trailing context
        -B N    Print N lines of leading context
        -C N    Same as '-A N -B N'
        -e PTRN Pattern to match
        -f FILE Read pattern from file
grep: invalid option -- 'V'
BusyBox v1.26.2 (2017-04-21 16:11:45 EDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: grep [-HhnlLoqvsriwFE] [-m N] [-A/B/C N] PATTERN/-e PATTERN.../-f FILE [FILE]...

Search for PATTERN in FILEs (or stdin)

        -H      Add 'filename:' prefix
        -h      Do not add 'filename:' prefix
        -n      Add 'line_no:' prefix
        -l      Show only names of files that match
        -L      Show only names of files that don't match
        -c      Show only count of matching lines
        -o      Show only the matching part of line
        -q      Quiet. Return 0 if PATTERN is found, 1 otherwise
        -v      Select non-matching lines
        -s      Suppress open and read errors
        -r      Recurse
        -i      Ignore case
        -w      Match whole words only
        -x      Match whole lines only
        -F      PATTERN is a literal (not regexp)
        -E      PATTERN is an extended regexp
        -m N    Match up to N times per file
        -A N    Print N lines of trailing context
        -B N    Print N lines of leading context
        -C N    Same as '-A N -B N'
        -e PTRN Pattern to match
        -f FILE Read pattern from file
grep: invalid option -- 'V'
BusyBox v1.26.2 (2017-04-21 16:11:45 EDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: grep [-HhnlLoqvsriwFE] [-m N] [-A/B/C N] PATTERN/-e PATTERN.../-f FILE [FILE]...

Search for PATTERN in FILEs (or stdin)

        -H      Add 'filename:' prefix
        -h      Do not add 'filename:' prefix
        -n      Add 'line_no:' prefix
        -l      Show only names of files that match
        -L      Show only names of files that don't match
        -c      Show only count of matching lines
        -o      Show only the matching part of line
        -q      Quiet. Return 0 if PATTERN is found, 1 otherwise
        -v      Select non-matching lines
        -s      Suppress open and read errors
        -r      Recurse
        -i      Ignore case
        -w      Match whole words only
        -x      Match whole lines only
        -F      PATTERN is a literal (not regexp)
        -E      PATTERN is an extended regexp
        -m N    Match up to N times per file
        -A N    Print N lines of trailing context
        -B N    Print N lines of leading context
        -C N    Same as '-A N -B N'
        -e PTRN Pattern to match
        -f FILE Read pattern from file
 * Mounting directory................................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Changing hostname.................................Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

 * Task Complete
 * Updating Database.................................
Done
 * Press [Enter] key to continue

So thank you good sir!

@Wayne-Workman That would work, but I feel like it’s kind of a bandaid to the issue rather than a real fix. We didn’t have to reinstall php for every fog update before, why do we suddenly need to do it now? Granted I do like the idea of contributing something to the official fog code, even if it does get taken out later…

So this problem definitely relates to a windows xp to windows 10 file transfer issue and is nothing to do with fog.
From what I found here http://helpdeskgeek.com/office-tips/fix-office-2010-cannot-verify-license-error-message/
I discovered that the file tokens.dat is indeed a part of activation.
If you happen to have a similar problem…

stop the service osppsvc
Delete or rename tokens.dat and cache.dat found at C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform
Start the service osppsvc
Open any office program and let it do the self repair

This also fixes the problem of the office installer autoclosing when trying to repair or uninstall.

@Wayne-Workman said in Image Prep Script:

@JJ-Fullmer said in Image Prep Script:

pnputil

Can you tell us more about that? I’m thinking I’m going to have to build a universal image now.

What @jayrob86 posted was some good stuff.

My basic explanation would be.

pnputil can add, install, or add and install drivers to a host.
If you use pnputil -a driver.inf you will add a driver to the plug n play store but not install it. This makes it so you can add drivers to your image without losing hardware independence.
If you use pnputil -i -a driver.inf it will install that driver for you and add it to the driverstore. Which is what I would use for a driver installer script.
You can also do recursive searches with for loops.
like this one that would go through the first level of folders in a folder and install all inf files in each folder (to do all subfolders would take more loops or something)… (disclaimer: untested, just doing it off the top of my head right quick, syntax may be wrong, but I’ve done it before, should really make this a sharedFunction script)
run from path you’re searching
use %%F (or i, or whatever variable floats your boat) in a script but just 1 % in command line)
%F= each line of output of dir /b which is just a folder name list (/b takes out the full path, makes it like ls) Then the loop just takes the foldername*.inf to install all inf files in that folder.
FOR /F %F in ('dir /b') do pnputil -i -a %F\*.inf

For drivers in a universal image I use that loop on downloaded drivers with just -a for any model that has drivers that are missing from windows 10 by default. A word of caution though, be careful with things like intel rapid storage technology drivers, and other hard drive/raid/sata controller type drivers. Sometimes having multiple in the store ends up having the wrong one install and then there are problems. So I try to limit it to simpler drivers, like network drivers, graphics drivers can work too, however trying to preinstall all nvidia drivers from a single nvidia driver download will take up a good chunk of GB of your image. So I stopped trying to do that one. But other than those 2 caveats of graphics drivers taking up space and IRST drivers having occasional conflicts, it’s a pretty great practice for universalizing images. Another important note, that I may have mentioned earlier, some inf files reference sys files and cab files in subdirs or the same dir. So you can’t always just copy the inf file to a share or something like that, so it’s good to install it from the original location that you find it in so it can copy those required files to the driver store as needed.

So some more examples would be the sol and heci drivers for a HP 8000 elite, or the latest intel network driver IL29 or something like that. Chipset drivers, monitor drivers, touchscreen drivers, printer drivers etc. And from what I understand, and I’m not 100% on this, but basically it puts drivers in 2 places on adding and installing. I think that when it’s installed it creates a C:\Windows\inf\oem#.inf file and when it adds it, it puts it in the driver store at C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository but I may have that backwards. But those are the 2 locations that drivers will go.

The other advantage to this method, that I think I mentioned before, is that it skips over having to install any extra software from the manufacturer. You can usually use 7zip to extract any driver installer exes and find the inf files you need.

Hopefully that answers your question enough to utilize it.

@sebastian-roth But if you test it, what’s the point of us Testers? =p

@Toby777 Are you on the latest trunk?
Download and upload of all image formats is working for me on nvme on the latest.

@Psycholiquid You are a beautiful person and I love you.
You may have just ended my 5 year hate war against sysprep.

Maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough, but everytime I tried sysprep or tried to customize it to my needs it failed miserably. Destroying customizations, getting stuck at oobe screens, just overall breaking everything. However, I just used your xml as a template and was able to successfully run sysprep on my windows 10 image and it worked pretty well and now I think I will be able to better search for the bits of the unattend.xml I need.

Also, a problem I ran into in windows 10 with sysprep is it sometimes gives an error about a metro app (movies and tv aka Microsoft.ZuneVideo for example) not being provisioned for each user or something. I had to run this powershell script I found in a microsoft tech forum (that I can’t seem to find again right now, but I saved the script for future use) on each user and it worked.

$AppsList = "Microsoft.Bing" , "Microsoft.BingFinance" , "Microsoft.BingMaps" , "Microsoft.BingNews"`
            , "Microsoft.BingSports" , "Microsoft.BingTravel" , "Microsoft.BingWeather" , "Microsoft.Camera"`
            , "microsoft.microsoftskydrive" , "Microsoft.Reader" , "microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps"`
            , "microsoft.windowsphotos" , "Microsoft.XboxLIVEGames" , "Microsoft.ZuneMusic"`
            , "Microsoft.ZuneVideo" , "Microsoft.Media.PlayReadyClient"

ForEach ($App in $AppsList)
{
    $PackageFullName = (Get-AppxPackage $App).PackageFullName
    if ((Get-AppxPackage $App).PackageFullName)
    {
        Write-Host "Removing Package: $App"
        remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online -packagename $PackageFullName
        remove-AppxPackage -package $PackageFullName
    }
    else
    {
        Write-Host "Unable to find package: $App"
    }
}

Save that guy as a .ps1 file and run it on each user if you’re getting an error when trying to run sysprep on windows 10 (or 8/8.1 for that matter)

Released version 1.6, nothing new just fixed the hash/signing issue on the psd1 file. Should fix the error that occurred during install saying the hash didn’t match or something like that in 1.5

@librarymark That’s the way I do it or at least the way I created my groups originally, but both options are available to be flexible. I mean if I did it now I would use the powershell module I just made for the api along with the PS module for active directory and create and populate groups based on OU’s, could even make it sync with a script in a scheduled task on a windows server.

But I digress. I did in fact confirm the bug of phantom hosts when creating a group from the hosts screen. I selected the top 3 hosts (id’s of 83, 26, and 135) and created a new group with the tool at the bottom of the list. Then I went to the group to find 5 members, the 3 I chose plus 2 more with ids of 1531 and 1535. I’m including the ids in case there’s some possible correlation to be seen to troubleshoot the bug.

I would firstly strongly recommend upgrading to trunk. It includes the latest version of ipxe which alone could fix the issue.
But I have a few other ideas from my tests of difficult networks that I’ve gotten FOG working on.

So if I understand correctly you already have reserved ips on your windows dhcp for the hosts you are testing. Does FOG also have a reserved IP address in the dhcp? Something I’ve had good luck with is giving FOG a reservation on the DHCP server (On the same subnet as the computers it’s imaging, even if you have seperate subnets for servers and workstations) and a DNS entry too and then set option 66 with the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name/Hostname.domain). This could be part of the issue here, but since you’re getting as far as you are it probably isn’t, but it could help since it may help the with getting the dhcp address.

So in summary of that idea

• Give FOG a dhcp reservation
• Give FOG a dns reservation
• Set Option 66 to hostname

Now A separate idea, even though you do have the dhcp method working. If it continues to give you grief you can give proxy dhcp via dnsmasq a try. I’ve had luck with it in environments that don’t like being edited. You typically don’t want to use poth the dhcp option and dnsmasq, however in some harder to modify network configurations, it is helpful to have both running. But I’ve also seen where one breaks the other, so just be aware of that when trying. So if you try this method, I would try unsetting option 66 and 67. And if it doesn’t work try setting the options again.

I put some information about configuring dnsmasq in a post in this thread
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6262/tftp-problems/43

There is also more information in the wiki
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/ProxyDHCP_/dnsmasq-_DRAFT
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Using_FOG_with_an_unmodifiable_DHCP_server/Using_FOG_with_no_DHCP_server

Hopefully that’s helpful in some way.

@Wayne-Workman I have since updated this script.
I don’t have a way to dynamically update all users. It essentially copies the neccesarry app data folders that won’t break cortana/start
to the default profile and then copies that default profile to a network share for deploying via a fog snapin with another script that takes arguements of the name of the profile you make.

Here let me just take out my credentials and share name and post a copies of my current create and apply windows 10 profile scripts…

p.s. I recently discovered that profiles made on 64 bit windows won’t work on 32 bit windows. So you have to create separate versions from 32 bit and 64 bit windows installs if you have different archs in your environment.

Due to current global pandemic conditions I find myself with some extra time to work on this. I do also have an infant, so not a ton of time, but more than I usually have to work on these kinds of projects.

I am currently thinking I will focus on the following things in the module but would love input on any features people would like in an API module out of the box.

• Creating a readthedocs or github pages based webpage for help files integrated with powershell’s get-help {function-Name} -online functionality. i.e. https://github.com/darksidemilk/FogApi is a rough draft
• Moving the api to its own repo following best practices for powershell modules. https://github.com/darksidemilk/FogApi.
• Update the build script to utilize the new structure and documentation needs
• Make sure each existing function has documentation, especially including examples
• Make it compatible with Powershell 7 (ideally without losing powershell 5 compatibility)
• Once compatible with powershell 7, add more cross platform compatibility for linux and mac (though I don’t have a way to test mac functionality) on all existing functions
• Add Functions for more common fog tasks (Hoping to get some requests to know where focus is best spent)
• Make it so the return object will work with the small api changes in fog 1.6 by making it just return just the content as the count is automatically included in a powershell object or changing the return object in some way that isn’t a breaking change. i.e. it currently returns something like

count: 100
hosts: {hostJsonContent}

in 1.6 I understand it will change to

count: 100
data: {hostJsonContent}

So I may utilize some method to make it so everything returns an object with count and data or just data or something based on what fog version you have. May also add additional 1.6 options if time permits (I understand there are join functions, and options to return just a specific parameter/member of an object or objects, or at least those were the plans 2 years ago)

• Make it so there’s more pipeable commands. i.e. you put some host in a variable and then just pipe it to actions

Get-FogHost -hostname computername | Add-FogHostMac -macaddress "12:34:56:78:90"

This would probably take quite some time to add

We’ll see how much of this I’m able to do in the undetermined amount of time this pandemic has me at home all day.

@Tom-Elliott @Sebastian-Roth @george1421

I gave something else a try. I looked at the commits included in the dev_branch since 1.5.9 and found that Tom had added the machine details array in the taskqueue.class.php file.

First thing I tried was adding a primary user to the host, in case that being empty was somehow a problem. No dice.

Looking at it, it’s just a prettier more informative email array. But the parameters in that object must be used somewhere else, because I reverted the file to its last commit (made a .old version of it on my server, made a new version of it with the previous version’s contents) just to see if that change maybe broke something.

My debug task was waiting for me to hit enter at another updating database attempt, so I hit enter, and viola!

So now we gotta figure out why in the world that change in the email sent would break the database update to say the task is completed.

edit:
I debugged it a bit further. Restored the newer version of the file and started commenting things out one at a time to confirm the problem.

The code here is where the problem lies (line 293-315 of taskqueue.class.php found at https://github.com/FOGProject/fogproject/blob/99bb17b168e929796a8d76526f73bcfdac11bb4b/packages/web/lib/reg-task/taskqueue.class.php)

$Inventory = self::$Host->get('inventory');
        $mac = self::$Host->get('mac')->__toString();
        $ImageName = $this->Task->getImage()->get('name');
        $ImageStartTime = self::niceDate($this->Task->get('checkInTime'));
        $ImageEndTime = self::niceDate();
        $duration = self::diff($ImageStartTime, $ImageEndTime);
        $Snapins = implode(',', (array)$SnapinNames);
        $email = array(
            sprintf("%s:-\n", _('Machine Details')) => '',
            sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Host Name')) => self::$Host->get('name'),
            sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Computer Model')) => $Inventory->get('sysproduct'),
            sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Serial Number')) => $Inventory->get('sysserial'),
            sprintf("\n%s: ", _('MAC Address')) => $mac,
            "\n" => '',
            sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Image Used')) => $ImageName,
            sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Snapin Used')) => $Snapins,
            "\n" => '',
            sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Imaged By')) => $engineer,
            sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Imaged For')) => $primaryUser,
            sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Imaging Started')) => $ImageStartTime,
            sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Imaging Completed')) => $ImageEndTime,
            sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Imaging Duration')) => $duration
        );

If I comment out the last 3 pieces of the array and try again, the database updates and all is well again

$Inventory = self::$Host->get('inventory');
        $mac = self::$Host->get('mac')->__toString();
        $ImageName = $this->Task->getImage()->get('name');
        $ImageStartTime = self::niceDate($this->Task->get('checkInTime'));
        $ImageEndTime = self::niceDate();
        $duration = self::diff($ImageStartTime, $ImageEndTime);
        $Snapins = implode(',', (array)$SnapinNames);
        $email = array(
            sprintf("%s:-\n", _('Machine Details')) => '',
            sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Host Name')) => self::$Host->get('name'),
            sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Computer Model')) => $Inventory->get('sysproduct'),
            sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Serial Number')) => $Inventory->get('sysserial'),
            sprintf("\n%s: ", _('MAC Address')) => $mac,
            "\n" => '',
            sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Image Used')) => $ImageName,
            sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Snapin Used')) => $Snapins,
            "\n" => '',
            sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Imaged By')) => $engineer,
            sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Imaged For')) => $primaryUser
            //sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Imaging Started')) => $ImageStartTime,
            //sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Imaging Completed')) => $ImageEndTime,
            //sprintf("\n%s: ", _('Imaging Duration')) => $duration
        );

@Tom
Trunk isn’t beta in the traditional sense. I would strongly recommend upgrading to it. If there are problems you post it on the forum and often the issue is fixed in a manner of hours.

@x23piracy Does the share require a login?
If it isn’t a public share it probably won’t work.

This module appears to have gained some popularity…

Maybe I need to find some time to do more updating.

@george1421 I have seen some strange behavior with 1’s and 0’s related to the hostPending field in the database that I’m still working out with @Sebastian-Roth . I believe there’s some notes buried somewhere in my post here https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/14607/weird-host-behavior-some-disappearing-losing-primary-mac-some-suddenly-needing-approval where I discovered I had some hosts says pending = 1 some pending = ‘1’ and then pending = 0 and pending = ‘0’.
I ended up making all of them string values (‘1’ or ‘0’ rather than 1 or 0).
It doesn’t seem to be universally true throughout everything but I have seen it.

@nehsa
Also, I also want to know how to make a scheduled task via the api. I’ve messed with that idea and haven’t been able to figure out the json needed. My workaround has been to schedule a reboot in windows using a combination of powershell date math (to figure out seconds till a given time) and shutdown.exe /r /t $seconds then I stop the fog service on the host (so it doesn’t reboot the host) and queue the task for right now.
It would be much more elegant to do a delayed scheduled task.

I think the required fields may be something like

 {
     "taskTypeID": 1,
     "type":"S",
     "scheduleTime":"1585616580"
}

I have that commented out in some code but sadly didn’t write down what that time meant… but regardless I’m pretty sure it didn’t actually work. I think I probably just scheduled a task and did a get call on tasks to see what it looked like. If I didn’t, that’s what I should have done…
@Tom-Elliott might have some insight on scheduling a task via the api

The easiest thing to do is probably just leave it as default /images but then either mount the HDD to the path /images in your /etc/fstab nano /etc/fstab or make a symlink with sudo ln -s /path/to/hdd/images /images I personally use the symlink method. In my case I just wasn’t paying attention when I partition my drive and made a /home data partition of 400 GB and a / partition of 80 GB. I realized too late that this meant that I only had 80 GB for images… Since I didn’t feel like editing the partition table or starting over, I just moved the /images folder to a folder in /home/fogRootSystem and made a symlink to point /images to that folder and it worked like a charm.

Otherwise you also would want to edit your /etc/exports and make sure that it is pointing the nfs directory to your /images (Fog might do this for you if you specified it during install or in the gui)
You also would want to consider moving the snapins directory as it would normally be in /opt/fog/snapins and if you have a lot of scripts and large installers, than that directory can get pretty big too. Granted any of these would run faster on an ssd.

Hope that helps.

@John-Johnson I ran into a similar error.
This answer is similar to the other’s but I had to run the following powershell script on every local user to get sysprep to work.

$AppsList = "Microsoft.Bing" , "Microsoft.BingFinance" , "Microsoft.BingMaps" , "Microsoft.BingNews"`
            , "Microsoft.BingSports" , "Microsoft.BingTravel" , "Microsoft.BingWeather" , "Microsoft.Camera"`
            , "microsoft.microsoftskydrive" , "Microsoft.Reader" , "microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps"`
            , "microsoft.windowsphotos" , "Microsoft.XboxLIVEGames" , "Microsoft.ZuneMusic"`
            , "Microsoft.ZuneVideo" , "Microsoft.Media.PlayReadyClient"

ForEach ($App in $AppsList)
{
    $PackageFullName = (Get-AppxPackage $App).PackageFullName
    if ((Get-AppxPackage $App).PackageFullName)
    {
        Write-Host "Removing Package: $App"
        remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online -packagename $PackageFullName
        remove-AppxPackage -package $PackageFullName
    }
    else
    {
        Write-Host "Unable to find package: $App"
    }
}

See this post for more info
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/5873/windows-10-unattend-xml-sysprep-answer-file-challenge/15

@dvbnl It’s the “.” in “Dell Inc.”
I was just implementing this and found an issue with “Vmware Inc.” specifically the “.” not being seen as part of the string.

I chose to remove any trailing dots in the manufacturer name.

add this second manu definition, and it should help move you forward.

manu=`dmidecode -s system-manufacturer`;
manu="${manu%.*}";

I would also add below it something like

if [[ "${manu}" == "Dell Inc" ]]; then manu="Dell"; fi

If you are structuring your folders with the name “Dell” rather then Dell Inc