Regards X23

@themcv said in Image upload & deploy taking a long time:

@brad-schumann Try this, I ran into this on Surface’s.

Open command prompt as admin.

manage-bde -off

manage-bde -status

Fingers crossed that it will fix it. In my case, Windows was by default encrypting the free space which caused issues.

@Wayne-Workman #wiki worthy!

all the best to you tom live long and prosper.

Hi,

i would like to explain the way i sysprep, reimage Windows 10 OEM in Steps:

First of all Windows 10 OEM Version does not autoexecute SetupComplete.cmd, therefore i use FirstLogonCommands within unattend.xml to workaround that issue

Here is my unattend.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
<settings pass="windowsPE">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<SetupUILanguage>
<UILanguage>de-DE</UILanguage>
</SetupUILanguage>
<InputLocale>0407:00000407</InputLocale>
<SystemLocale>de-DE</SystemLocale>
<UILanguage>de-DE</UILanguage>
<UILanguageFallback>de-DE</UILanguageFallback>
<UserLocale>de-DE</UserLocale>
</component>
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<DiskConfiguration>
<Disk wcm:action="add">
<CreatePartitions>
<CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
<Order>1</Order>
<Type>Primary</Type>
<Size>100</Size>
</CreatePartition>
<CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
<Extend>true</Extend>
<Order>2</Order>
<Type>Primary</Type>
</CreatePartition>
</CreatePartitions>
<ModifyPartitions>
<ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
<Active>true</Active>
<Format>NTFS</Format>
<Label>System Reserved</Label>
<Order>1</Order>
<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
<TypeID>0x27</TypeID>
</ModifyPartition>
<ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
<Active>true</Active>
<Format>NTFS</Format>
<Label>OS</Label>
<Letter>C</Letter>
<Order>2</Order>
<PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
</ModifyPartition>
</ModifyPartitions>
<DiskID>0</DiskID>
<WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
</Disk>
</DiskConfiguration>
<ImageInstall>
<OSImage>
<InstallTo>
<DiskID>0</DiskID>
<PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
</InstallTo>
<InstallToAvailablePartition>false</InstallToAvailablePartition>
</OSImage>
</ImageInstall>
<UserData>
<AcceptEula>true</AcceptEula>
<FullName>admin</FullName>
<Organization>Company Group</Organization>
</UserData>
<EnableFirewall>true</EnableFirewall>
</component>
</settings>
<settings pass="offlineServicing">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-LUA-Settings" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<EnableLUA>false</EnableLUA>
</component>
</settings>
<settings pass="generalize">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<SkipRearm>1</SkipRearm>
</component>
</settings>
<settings pass="specialize">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<InputLocale>0407:00000407</InputLocale>
<SystemLocale>de-DE</SystemLocale>
<UILanguage>de-DE</UILanguage>
<UILanguageFallback>de-DE</UILanguageFallback>
<UserLocale>de-DE</UserLocale>
</component>
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP-UX" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<SkipAutoActivation>true</SkipAutoActivation>
</component>
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-SQMApi" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<CEIPEnabled>0</CEIPEnabled>
</component>
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<WindowsFeatures>
<ShowMediaCenter>false</ShowMediaCenter>
<ShowWindowsMail>false</ShowWindowsMail>
</WindowsFeatures>
<ShowWindowsLive>false</ShowWindowsLive>
<DoNotCleanTaskBar>true</DoNotCleanTaskBar>
<BluetoothTaskbarIconEnabled>false</BluetoothTaskbarIconEnabled>
<ComputerName>COMPANY-PC</ComputerName>
<CopyProfile>true</CopyProfile>
</component>
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-IE-InternetExplorer" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<BlockPopups>yes</BlockPopups>
<CompanyName>Company</CompanyName>
<Home_Page>http://www.google.de</Home_Page>
<DisableFirstRunWizard>true</DisableFirstRunWizard>
</component>
</settings>
<settings pass="oobeSystem">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<AutoLogon>
<Password>
<Value>password</Value>
<PlainText>true</PlainText>
</Password>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
<LogonCount>1</LogonCount>
<Username>Username</Username>
</AutoLogon>
<OOBE>
<HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>
<HideOEMRegistrationScreen>true</HideOEMRegistrationScreen>
<HideOnlineAccountScreens>true</HideOnlineAccountScreens>
<HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>true</HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>
<NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation>
<SkipUserOOBE>true</SkipUserOOBE>
<SkipMachineOOBE>true</SkipMachineOOBE>
<ProtectYourPC>3</ProtectYourPC>
</OOBE>
<UserAccounts>
<LocalAccounts>
<LocalAccount wcm:action="add">
<Password>
<Value>password</Value>
<PlainText>true</PlainText>
</Password>
<Description></Description>
<DisplayName>Username</DisplayName>
<Group>Administrators</Group>
<Name>Username</Name>
</LocalAccount>
</LocalAccounts>
</UserAccounts>
<RegisteredOrganization>Company Group</RegisteredOrganization>
<RegisteredOwner>admin</RegisteredOwner>
<DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet>false</DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet>
<FirstLogonCommands>
<SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
<Description>SetupComplete</Description>
<Order>1</Order>
<CommandLine>C:\Windows\Setup\Scripts\SetupComplete.cmd</CommandLine>
<RequiresUserInput>false</RequiresUserInput>
</SynchronousCommand>
<SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
<Description>Control Panel View</Description>
<Order>2</Order>
<CommandLine>reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel" /v StartupPage /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f</CommandLine>
<RequiresUserInput>false</RequiresUserInput>
</SynchronousCommand>
<SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
<Description>Control Panel Icon Size</Description>
<Order>3</Order>
<CommandLine>reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel" /v AllItemsIconView /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f</CommandLine>
<RequiresUserInput>false</RequiresUserInput>
</SynchronousCommand>
</FirstLogonCommands>
<TimeZone>W. Europe Standard Time</TimeZone>
</component>
</settings>
</unattend>

To remove any Windows 10 Apps except Store and Calculator i use:

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | where-object {$_.name –notlike “*store*” -And $_.packagename –notlike “*culator*”} | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –notlike “*store*” -And $_.packagename –notlike “*culator*”} | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online

1. Download latest Windows 10 Pro OEM ISO by MS MEdia Creation Tool
2. Install it to a VM (i use Virtual Box)
3. After first reboot when the assistant ask you for express settings or with 1703 the inital language question goto admin mode with pressing STRG (CTRL) + SHIFT +F3
4. When entering the Admin mode close the Sysprep Window and start customizing windows and install your software and do your tweaks
5. Now to sysprep i use the following Script:

@echo off
delprof2 /q /id:retsch /i
NET USER retsch /DELETE
powercfg -h off
rem C:\Support\Tools\Shutup\OOSU10.exe ooshutup10.cfg /quiet
del /F c:\windows\system32\sysprep\panther\setupact.log
del /F c:\windows\system32\sysprep\panther\setuperr.log
del /F c:\windows\system32\sysprep\panther\ie\setupact.log
del /F c:\windows\system32\sysprep\panther\ie\setuperr.log
del /F "C:\Program Files (x86)\FOG\fog.log"
del /F "C:\Program Files (x86)\FOG\token.dat"
rem "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox Guest Additions\uninst.exe"
copy SetupComplete.cmd C:\Windows\Setup\scripts\ /Y
copy unattend.xml C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep /Y
reg import C:\Support\Tools\ResetERAgentUUID.reg
net stop FOGService
sc config FOGService start= disabled
sc config EraAgentSvc start= disabled
cleanmgr /sagerun:1
defrag c:
c:\windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe /oobe /generalize /shutdown /unattend:c:\windows\system32\sysprep\unattend.xml

My SetupComplete.cmd look like:

del C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\unattend.xml
sc config FOGService start= auto
net start FOGService
del C:\Windows\Setup\Scripts\SetupComplete.cmd

6. After executing this Windows will be sysprepped and shutdown after that, you can image now

7. When i need to rework that image i deploy it to a vm again and use the following to enter audit mode again:

@echo off
c:\windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe /audit /reboot

If anyone is asking himself what i do with:

delprof2 /q /id:username /i
NET USER username /DELETE

This deletes the user i create with unattend.xml to workaround the problem with setupcomplete.cmd, i use firstlogoncommands to execute the script when the first user logon happens, to clean this i remove the profile and username before i sysprep because the user will be recreated from unattend.xml, as you can see in the unattend.xml there is 1 autologon for that user, else setupcomplete.cmd will not be executed.

The good thing is this user can persist on the machine after deployment because it’s our local admin account on that machine additional to the locked local admin account.

The System will automatically reboot when fog client has joined the machine into the domain, so the machine will finish with a logon screen not with a logged in user

Good luck

Regards X23

Hi,

since it’s RC i am really cool with all the updates, you have to expect that if using a RC release.
So we all should be really happy that bugs are fixed as fast as hell.

@Tom-Elliott Thank you for all the hard work not to forget the guys working in the background…

@John-L-Clark if you are not familar with GPO’s i can recommend PDQ Deploy, in free Version it’s enough to deploy simple stuff around your network.

Regards X23

@george1421 hi, yes we did. a user enabled this on his own and we had’nt disabled that feature by gpo.
Maybe useful for people very often work in public wlan networks but for fog it’s contra productive.

https://winaero.com/blog/enable-random-mac-address-in-windows-10-for-wi-fi-adapter/

The old thread: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10209/about-50-pending-macs-for-one-host-beware-of-windows-10-random-mac-feature-for-wlan/33

Regards X23

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/9059/images-are-not-deleting

Why should only show associated image require a lot of code changes? @Tom-Elliott @Wayne-Workman
Is there no easy way to say make everything else not showing up in that list without association?

I really would also like to have that option.

I have some notebooks out there where the employees reset to a default image again when they make test installation of our own software. Actually they can pick up every image that is on the node, and i like to prevent them from choosing what ever they want.

Regards X23

@george1421 hi george i am currently not on site (home office) i can try this when i am back in the office.

Best Regards X23

@sebastian-roth yes i am still on 1.5.0, i tried to update to the latest but update repository problems kicked my ass.

Best Regards X23

@george1421 we have a supernet at work 172.19.100.0/22 (100.0/24, 101.0/24, 102.0/24 & 103.024) the two fog servers are reachable under the following ip addresses (172.19.102.17 (fog), 172.19.102.18 (fog-image) storage node. All other clients do well with current ipxe.efi (fog 1.5.0).

when i change back from snponly.efi to ipxe.efi all my other devices work well as before.

When i deploy the E15 devices with their dock it works fine, the dock nic seems to be propperly detected, the bad thing is if the device goes into windows it doesnt know the docks nic driver the first time but the internal nic is working, so we put the network cable after deployment into internal nic so fog client can do his job (rename, ad-join etc.) another solution (workaround) would be to deploy the device with both nics connected to the network.

Best Regards X23

@george1421 @sebastian-roth said in Lenovo E15 Gen2 won't PXE boot (bzImage):

snponly.efi

Hi,

i tried it but anyway same error like before.

Best Regards X23

@george1421 can i temporary use snponly.efi for this specific host instead of change it for all? but how to, i think i need to specify a filter in dhcp for this specific device?

For the first test i can change for all temporary but later on if that works i need to integrate this.
Can you give me a hint?

@george1421 I’ll try and report.

@sebastian-roth @george1421

Secure Boot is disabled else you won’t get to this point (picture) am i wrong?

@george1421 said in Lenovo E15 Gen2 won't PXE boot (bzImage):

@x23piracy Here is 5.6.18RT3 which has the updated realtek drivers in them. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O-4tvx4DywWef75qfSxLRK9M6CoDS9pd/view?usp=sharing See how well these work with that nic.

Good morning George, unfortenately the error sticks, the kernel you provided doesn’t make the device able to pxe boot, same error. Is there another kernel i can try? Is hasusbnic=1 an option? I just ask maybe this crazy thing is internally tight to usb (would be strange).

Best Regards X23

@george1421 thanks, i will report tomorrow, i am in the home office and my collegue already left the office. Thanks so far i’ll report. Realtek? Wasn’t it Realcrap?

Best Regards X23

Hi,

@george1421 the vendor is 10ec and device 8168, we use 40AS009 Docks with that device while PXE booting was not possible with the native NIC it worked with the Docks NIC, after the Deployment the Docks NIC was not available before the device has been rebooted, the fun part is the latest Windows (20H2, Patch level from December) detects the native NIC that FOG does not while trying to PXE boot.

I am happy to test a kernel that may can run the native NIC.

Best Regards X23