I sysprep because I create generic, or all purpose images. We get basically any model you can think of in here, so I can’t make hardware specific images.

It’s the only reason I use it though.

@zpoling I probably update it 3 times a day or more, but then again I’m in the testers group for a reason.

Some reading to consider: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/encrypting-nfsv4-stunnel-tls

Mentions SSHFS as well (even faster than clear text NFS in their tests??)

I can’t really decide, in the end. Each approach has its own set of downsides and upsides it looks like.

What is most important? Reliability (eg NFS restarting TCP transactions), Security (encrypting the data stream), Maintainability (KISS), Performance (NFS likely slower than SSH pipe)

Additionally, I wonder if we would see differences in performance when we compare transfer performance of a static file vs a data stream. Or perhaps this consideration is irrelevant since more than likely the bottleneck won’t be network transfer anyway, right?

Depending on your hardware, you may need the right driver.

Or if you’re in a VM, you need to select the right device to emulate.

@RobTitian16 I don’t see why you’d want to do that from SetupComplete when you can just copy it during the postdownload stage.

You may still need to point to the absolute path the the msi installer on the windows drive, but I’m not sure.

Are you using a dynamic size VHD? If so, please try a fixed size.

@trialanderror To a certain extent important bugfixes are backported where possible. But certain fixes require certain changes to how it works from the get go and can’t realistically be backported. You’d have to make so many changes you’re essentially updating it to the new version anyway.

FOG is worked on by people in their free time. They offer a free and open source product, free of charge with quick support, often from the developers themselves. It’s a little bit insane to ask for a LTS support on older version, imo.

@george1421 Yes, I don’t use unattend files myself (and I find defprof more reliable than unattend as well), though, so hence the alternative. My start menus aren’t broken on deploy at any rate, which was a huge issue with customizing the start menu without defprof

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Use_FOG_with_FreeNAS

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=NAS_Storage_Node

These seem a bit on the old side, but for the most part should work fine.

@ITCC You’ll need a storage group for each location and assign the image to both groups, with the main office being the main storage group so FOG knows in which direction to replicate.

Please refer to Tom’s answer instead

@alorsung Capture happens through NFS and the moving happens through FTP, so yes, this is a typical FTP problem.

@MarkusK This depends entirely on your snapin, it simply accepts the exit code it gets from the program it is told to run.

If this is not the desired behavior, you need to alter your setup.

@LPetelik Can you tell us what browser she’s using and if she’s using any extensions that might block scripts? (some adblockers do, extensions like noscript do, etc)

@AngryScientist On the host page, there are checkboxes on the right next to each MAC to exclude them.

I’m guessing there’s another DHCP server on your network.

If that’s the case, please refer to https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Using_FOG_with_an_unmodifiable_DHCP_server/_Using_FOG_with_no_DHCP_server#DNSMASQ_settings_for_iPXE

@coop90 There’s a program named Terminal (on Ubuntu you can search for this by clicking on the icon top left and typing, assuming default theme). Paste them in there

Only thing I can imagine being a bit troublesome would be the NIC/Virtual NIC setup, but should be fine.

@Wayne-Workman DATE() returns the date without the timestamp. So it will be assumed to be 00:00:00

Use just NOW() and drop DATE(), so that it is updated more accurately.

@Tom-Elliott I think he simply forgot to put vmlinuz after imgargs.

Well, I think why that script won’t work 100% is because the script has a tiny bug in it.

                    if [[ ! -d /ntfs/windows && ! -d /ntfs/Windows && ! -d /ntfs/WINDOWS ]]; then
                        echo "Not found"
                        umount /ntf >/dev/null 2>&1
                        continue
                    fi

Should be

                    if [[ ! -d /ntfs/windows && ! -d /ntfs/Windows && ! -d /ntfs/WINDOWS ]]; then
                        echo "Not found"
                        umount /ntfs >/dev/null 2>&1
                        continue
                    fi

The problem being that when the script loops through the mounting of parts, but can’t find the Windows folder, it fails to unmount the ntfs folder, which will not allow the system to then mount anything else to it, and thusly it fails.

Not sure why it would work for your optiplex, but fix that and try again, imo.

edit: Did not see Tom’s post, I essentially posted the same thing.