Replication seems to be working well so far with the two FOG servers (bumping that up to 3 here soon and pushing for at least 3 at my last job site!), but I noticed that the drivers don’t copy over in /images/drivers to the other FOG server.
Is there a way to set the drivers to replicate in FOG or is this something I’ll need to do outside of FOG?
Thanks!
@adukes40 Hey TitsMcgeeHC 
MDT/WDS is so overpushed in /r/sysadmin there has to be the voice of reason. I see people running FOG over there and wanting to move to MDT and a lot of times they have no clue about their FOG server. They’ll be running .32 and not know what they’re missing out on. Once I show them the light, then they realize that there’s no reason to leave FOG.
Not yet, me and my buddy are making a few to start. We’ve been asked to have the OG FOG logo and the FOG clound among the first out, so once we get markups I’ll post them here.
@Tom-Elliott Okay, so maybe it’s a matter of adding the entries. The one I did testing with was on Legacy mode, then switched to UEFI and imaged.
So this value needs to be added in regardless to the BIOS and is separate from FOG?
To be honest, this is my first time working with UEFI on an enterprise level.
@Quazz We only have Dells. Bleh. Been a bad week for this stuff. OptiPlex 7040’s so far have been awful.
@Quazz It is in UEFI mode, but it doesn’t see the drive after FOG has imaged it. doesn’t put it in the boot order and go to Windows after imaging.
Imaging a computer in UEFI mode doesn’t add it in the boot order. So if I’m running the ipxe.efi boot file it will image completely fine, but when the computer reboots it doesn’t know how to get to Windows. If I check the BIOS, only the Network boot options and the CD Drive are listed for booting.
Is there something I’m doing incorrectly or is there something that needs to be set in FOG or is this even possible to do? People seem to not be having and issue imaging UEFI systems on here.
Thanks,
THEMCV
When imaging this OptiPlex 7040, FOG doesn’t try to pull the drivers for the device in the postdownload script.
I have a feeling that it has to do with it being an m.2 drive instead of a regular SATA, but I’m not sure. It images just fine, but doesn’t even check for drivers. Confirmed in Deploy-Debug mode.
I can post the scripts I’m using if need be. Is there any known issues with m.2 drives?
Hi everyone!
FOG has been a part of my IT career for a long time now and I’d like to give back to the community.
Here soon a designer buddy and I will be designing t-shirts for you guys to purchase and we’re going to take the profits from these t-shirts and donate it back to the FOG project. We’re using a site called Booster to sell the shirts and we’ll be doing a monthly rotation on shirts.
I just wanted to see what you guys thought about this and if you’d be into it.
Thanks!
Reupload your file in the snap-in. Make sure your settings are right (and that the script runs silently, FOG Client doesn’t like it when snap-ins don’t) and re-upload the batch file.
I’m guessing your file size is 0ib on the left. Try that and let me know.
Where does it crash at? Any error messages?
Can you update to the latest RC?
@Wayne-Workman Yes I did. FOG gets better every day I swear. I got stuck on the CiscoVPN client (legacy), but that was my fault. Parsing problem for .msi
Yeah, that’s what’s really useful for me.
All of the users hate the word imaging here, so I’m trying to change that by doing a per department automated install for them so they can have all their apps back how they want them and their downtime is minimal.
Slowly but surely.
@Wayne-Workman It’s not too bad how it is. Regardless of the name you really just need to read it a few times and then it clicks.
Group Management reports total number of computers in host list when there are 0 in the group.
Accounting, HR, Install etc (any with 19) actually have 0 in the group. I have 18 hosts registered in total.
Thank you all so much for your help. It works! And it works well! I have a lot of apps to do this with, but it’ll be worth it in the end.
Fully modular images by department with a tiny base image here I come.
@Wayne-Workman You are the absolute best. This looks perfect and totally doable for multiple packages.
Thanks so much! I’ll give this a whirl and let you know.
@Wayne-Workman So we have our Anyconnect client that FOG installs with no issue. The problem I’m having is getting the file into the location from the server.
The file I need is on \\server\subfolder\FOG_VPN_Files and it’s an .XML file that needs to go into C:\ProgramData\Cisco\Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client\Profile
I tried having a script mount \\server as a Z: drive, but the copying process proved unreliable and didn’t ever seem to work well. I don’t really want to be mapping drives if I don’t need to.
The snapinpack could work. Where does the FOG client drop the files to?
@Lee-Rowlett I’ll check into that snapcheck.php. These are fresh installs with no programs besides Office installed, so it could definitely work fine. The config files just need to be put in place and the vpnagent service needs to be restarted too.
The one idea I had was to just keep the config file on the image and have a script copy it over, but I’d like to be able to deploy and keep an updated version on the server for these sort of things if possible.
@george1421 How would I inject it with a snapin? FOG holds onto the file that you upload, but I’m not sure how to tell it where to copy it down to…
Post install script could work, but I’m not sure if the program will be cool with it’s file structure already being in place there.
It would be extremely nice to be able to inject files from FOG. One particular instance this would be useful would be injecting a config file. FOG installs our Cisco Anyconnect client just fine, but we have a preset config file it uses. The script I wrote doesn’t seem to want to work copying a file from the server to the local machine without throwing a fit.
I could include it on the local image, but I’m trying to keep all the components modular from the base OS image so they can be installed when needed and on reimaging, updated.
It would be nice to have one day and maybe there’s a better way to try to do what I’m thinking.