@Valer i know that some bios let the „windows boot manager“ always go on position 1 if found afaik this can be turned off to keep your current order:

https://superuser.com/questions/1043451/asus-bios-keeps-resetting-boot-priority-to-windows-boot-manager-before-uefi

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@meobeou Hi, i am using it and it‘s easy to use, google for create pushbullet api key, create it in your pb account and paste it into the fogs pb config. After that it should work.

Easy :)

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@ConJon said in Boot to Image:

We only image one kind of machine. I am wondering if it’s possible to skip everything on the host side and when we boot to the NIC, it skips every menu and starts the only image we use. Anyone know of any way to do that.

Hi, what you want sounds dangerous, what if a client boots via network by accident? You will wipe the hdd/ssd and deploy a new image.

A good idea would be something like waiting for admin to approve. Like IBM Tovoli does.

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@Sebastian-Roth FYI, i am using 1.5.4 with a ad join password starting with % (percent sign) in production.

Hi,

why not use cross transfering @Tom-Elliott ? Maybe some of us moderates can receive the money and transfer it through paypal to the fog project?

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This post is just a destroying message, i can understand that you are frustrated but there are a lot of people out there successfully using fog. Why not starting to tell us your issues to may solve them?

Posts like this are helpful for no one.

@Wayne-Workman whoops did not read your post, its pretty the same to mine, sorry :D

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Hi,

i tried to activate a VL Image with an OEM key and this doesn’t work!
But with a single VL Key you can activate up to 250 machines (my last information) maybe its lower today until it counts out. You can see the activation count in the VLC.

Doing this more then once is okay if the target machine has an oem key in its bios. Remember the reference image needs to be build based on the VL Media!

Thats all about the trick purchasing one VL copy of for example Windows 10 Pro to gain the reimaging rights.
Also the activation count can be resetted, i don’t know anymore if this happens after x days or can be done another way.

In the past i gave a s*** on that part in the eula, at least when everbody is onboarded to the cloud microsoft isn’t interested anymore in doing sam checks, so i was used to activate my computers by reading the key from bios and activating it by a snapin that was doing nothing more then slmgr.vbs /ipk key followed by a slmgr.vbs /ato ;)

P.S. my company is on a strict way up to the ms clouds, i have to deal with intune (autopilot) i hate it, FOG rules! that said!

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@Aaron-McLaughlin try to not remove the image definition, just copy it and delte the image files and let the image definition alive, if you now copy the files back it should work.

Fog doesbt know that the image was still captured if you copy image files back and simply recreate the image definition.

Not sure but if you want the backup and restore images you also have to backup the sql part of the image, that should cover all the image settings and maybe also file sizes.

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Hey Tom :)

nice to hear from you, all the best…

It’s not time to make a change
Just relax, take it easy
You’re still young, that’s your fault
There’s so much you have to know
Look at me
I am old, but I’m happy

I was once like you are now
And I know that it’s not easy
To be calm when you’ve found
Something going on
But take your time, think a lot
Why, think of everything you’ve got
For you will still be here tomorrow
But your dreams may not

Regards Cat ;)

@Pere-Pozo-Miro you can setup as much storage nodes as needed and if you create the image you decide on which storage node it will be stored. There is a replication between storage nodes but that can be configured.

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