Posts made by m.fitzgerald

Server

• FOG Version: 1.4.4
• OS: UBUNTU

Client

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Description. So I have a network at 11 different sites with approx 800 PC’s 60% are the exact same type of PC and the remaining 40% or so are perhaps 3 different kinds. I want to install a FOG server at each site and store perhaps 3 different HDD images. That way it is very easy and quick to get a PC back up and running if there is an issue. All of that is fine and will work great and I know how to do it.

The issues is I can not find a way to deploy silently the client application with the appropriate FQDN for the fog server at each location. Deploying silently is a piece of cake thanks to PDQ. Since each location shares the same DNS server (all one big AD) I can’t simply add an A record.

I REALLY do not want to install one by one at over 800 PC’s. We are a staff of TWO!

Any ideas?

@george1421 We were successful yesterday when we used the image we created on our Stem machine. We were able to do perhaps 4 PC and all worked perfect. To say we were excited at the possibility to knock these out so fast is a gross understatement.

Today using the same image we have the boot issue. Now to be fair perhaps it is a driver issue. I am not sure if we have all possible drivers loaded.

I am 95% sure we tried a capture from the reference image (swap the hard drive with a blank one) and deploy back to the same hardware and it didn’t work. But I might be wrong since we tried maybe 10 different things today on top of trying to manage our 11 store 600 PC environment. It can get a bit confusing at times.

I will try that for sure next as well as making sure we have the right driver packs.

@george1421 That is close to correct. In our experience (we have done perhaps 150) the normal process on a PC by PC basis worked perfectly. We have 53 PC left that will not upgrade via the normal upgrade to windows 10 process. They all error out on the last part of the upgrade. So since they will not complete the upgrade we can’t install windows 10 because it will not activate.

So on these remaining 53 PC we decided to try and load a fresh activated version of Windows 7 and then perform the upgrade. Which when done on a one at a time process works fine, however we have 53 to do and only my self and my system admin. Plus the down time of the 4-6 hours (if lucky) to complete the upgrade is problematic at best.

Which is why I thought I would use FOG and image the windows 7 and at least cut the loading time down to 4 minutes instead of an hour or two depending on updates.

@avaryan Yes we did use sysprep and also tried it buy loading a PC with a new hard drive and loading windows 7 from scratch. The reason we don’t do a fresh windows 10 is because my licenses on these are all windows 7. Since I can still upgrade for free to windows 10 I am trying to take advantage of it.

Server

• FOG Version: 1.4.4
• OS: Ubuntu

We have 53 computers that would not update to Windows 10 the normal way on their own way. We recently started using FOG to image a PC with a fresh clean version of Windows 7. Our goal was to start with a fresh version and then perform the update to Windows 10. Which we have done successfully on several PC’s.

The past three PC’s all have deployed the image without errors except when rebooting it starts to launch Windows 7 then immediately restarts the PC and stays in this loop. Additionally any of the Safe modes do the same thing.

Any ideas?