Posts made by x23piracy

Hi,

i have a strange problem with my current image.
I am on an older FOG Server Version 1.5.0 with FOG Client 0.11.15

My current image is based on 2004, when i let FOG join the Computer to our domain and i logon the domain admin the first login never ends, after some time i press strg+alt+del and hit logoff, when i logon again everything is fine. When i start the task manager i can see that there is no explorer process, when i try to start it by hand nothing happens.

When i logon every other user also other user with domain admin rights but not explicit the default domain administrator everything is fine, this only happens with the default domain administrator account (domain\administrator), and it only happens with the first login attempt.

When i deploy the image without letting FOG join the device to the domain i can logon the default domain administrator without any problem. I think this is a curious behavior and i have no idea whats causing this.

Is it possible that this has something to do how the older FOG Client technically joins into domain or what could be the reason here?

Best Regards X23

Hi,

i am not sure if it can simply deleted, It’s used in recovery cases and there are 12,5MB of data in it. I need to find out if Windows 10 is using it for what ever case.

Best Regards X23

Hi,

i thought the same but i can’t move the recovery partition in front of the system partition even if i shrink the beginning of the system partition…meh:

https://i.imgur.com/ZRjg6Tm.png

Best Regards X23

Hi,

i am currently trying to move partitions but it won’t let me:
https://i.imgur.com/9pKvxqY.png

The marked part is “move partition” it’s greyed out.

Regards X23

Hi Quazz,

thanks for your quick response after that deployment i could see the recovery partition is behind the system partition, if move this in front of the system partition and capture after that it works?

Btw. i found out howto still use copyprofile with newer Win10 Versions if someone is interested.

I was looking for my post and wondering with the post number has been extended but my post wasnt visible, forum changes to current post on top hehe

Best Regards X23

Hi,

i currently have this Problem with (Windows 10 2004) i created a new image thats not expanding after deployment. I am on an older FOG Version 1.5.0 and older Images (1703) expand correctly.

Any idea?

Best Regards X23

Hi,

this is not possible in the default firmware, you may can try if there is support for a freetz image that you can compile on your own. Afaik there is no support for the 75XX models for freetz: https://freetz.github.io/wiki/index.en.html

DNSMasq is maybe an option but i am not used to it, you can try to ask @george1421

Regards X23

Hi,

please delete the following and try again:

rd /S /Q "C:\Users\Default\AppData\LocalLow"
rd /S /Q "C:\users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WebCache"
rd /S /Q "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache"
del /F "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WebCacheLock.dat"

This is only for newly created user accounts, if the account (profile) already exists you have to delete this in the specific profile, log off and on after that and try again.

I don’t know if that helps you, sources:

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10210/windows-10-1703-image-with-strange-issue
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10766/windows-10-1703-delete-this-if-you-use-copyprofile-in-unattend-xml

_Do you use “Copyprofile” within your unattend.xml? Which Win 10 Version is it? 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809 or 1903?

Regards X23

@TBCS this device can afaik only boot uefi you habe to disable secure boot also.

Like george is telling you, you need to get efi booting working.

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@x23piracy said in Response Invalid MAC address format Windows 7 Client:

@Daryl-Lee try to reset encryption data for the specific host and try again, should be found in the host definition.

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@Daryl-Lee try to reset encryption data for one host and test again, should be found in the host definition.

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@george1421 said in Clone PC and change product key:

@andre_x Then use a fog snapin to deploy a cmd file to the target computer. The only issue here is that you must have a single key for all Office installs.

(like most AV software). If you install these first then every cloned machine will have the same application GUID which will >probably confuse the management console for the software.

for example ESET’s Agent is creating a unique key, even if you sysprep it’s still the same, the solution was to generate a new uuid and change it in the ESET’s Agent db file on the local hd.

Sysprepping is always the best idea anyway.

Regards X23

@cary1102 said in FOG Handling DHCP Services:

Awesome. Exactly the reply I needed.

Another thing I have had trouble with is in the past I tried editing that dhcp file but then after I did so, I did not get the FOG PXE boot anymore.
By default my FOG server is giving clients addresses on the same network as the FOG server and I need to change this without breaking it.
For example: A client will receive the address 10.10.2.6.
I need the DHCP to hand out addresses on my 10.10.222.0 network.

I will keep trying and report any issues I come across.

Hi,

on your ip a s output below i see 10.10.2.65/24 that means 255.255.255.0
but you told us that you want the dhcp to serve 10.10.222.0 how should that work?

You need a route to have both networks communicating, FYI DHCP is a non routable protocol.
Or configure both the fog server and the dhcp range in the same subnet but exclude the fixed addresses (for example the fog server) from being served by the DHCP service.

Regards X23

@george1421 & @ckasdf sorry guys but i don’t understand exactly whats going on here:

Afaik fog doesnt display the dashes in the webif even if you paste a 29 sign key, ajax or whatever cool technique immediately removes the dashes visible in the edit field (at that moment i don’t know if it is stored as 25 or 29 sign key into db), lets say the readback works propperly then the only problem can be the fog client or the key itself.

Have you tried to activate manually? slmgr.vbs -ipk key (store the key) followed by slmgr.vbs -ato (activate key)

Btw. afaik you don’t need the windowskey plugin, it’s used for group deployments or volume license keys, if you have unique keys for each host your good to go with the hosts key definition.

Regards X23

@george1421 said in Clone PC and change product key:

Cross linking active post because the conditions sound very similar: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/13084/activating-windows-10-pro-after-deployment

@andre_x if you review the fog client log on the target computer is there anything useful that mentions client activation?

Hi,

@Sebastian-Roth mentioned in another thread that the fog client should be 11.6 else something with activation isn’t working propperly (afaik something about the parsing of the key (with, without the dashes) 25-29 signs.

Btw. i hate that the webif shortens the key from 29 to 25, the key contains that dashes and i think it should always be displayed with them, nice idea to save space in the db but hey it’s not 1980

Regards X23

@andre_x said in Clone PC and change product key:

Hi @x23piracy, I don’t have the product key in the bios.
I’ve read the 2 links you’ve provided me, but they’re both relative to the bios keys. They are all pc provided without any license, we’ve bought them separately.
Is there a way to change the product key of a deployed image with the one inserted in the host definition under the “Host Product Key” field?
Thanks!

Hi,

you should be able to add your keys into to each host definition in fog, then when you have the fog client in your image it should activate with the supplied key.

Regards X23

@george1421 said in Clone PC and change product key:

@andre_x said in Clone PC and change product key:

Since you haven0t used this feature, is there anybody else that can help me with this?

@x23piracy Do you have any input on this issue?

Hi,

i need to know if @andre_x has computers for rent with product key in their bios?
If so he can read the keys from bios and activate em.

Method one, active key reading in fog options (you need to dig a little) then when you register a host the key will be read and added to the host definition:
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10808/fog-client-fos-report-bios-product-key-to-database-host-activate-through-bios-key-deployment/30

Method two, find a tool that can read the bios key through command line (i can give you the binary), pipe the output into a script (slmgr.vbs -ipk KEY, followed by the activation itself slmgr.vbs -ato):
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/9694/read-windows-keys-from-registry-and-bios-oem-key-fog-client/2

Regards X23

@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

Regards X23

@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.

Regards X23