For Auto-Logout we are using a workaround. It’s a Windows Screensaver that logs the user out (forcing or not to close the apps), shutdowns the computer, etc.
You can even customize the message box, text, its colors, etc.
It is called Windows Screensaver Operations ([url]http://www.grimadmin.com/article.php/new-screensaver-operations-utility[/url])
Do Auto-Logout and Display Manager work now in Windows 7?
Last time I read they only worked in XP. They would be really useful for us.
We had a similar issue and this is how we solved it:
Make a Ghost image of the bigger disk into an USB disk.
Restore the Ghost image into an smaller disk.
Upload the image from the smaller disk to FOG
This image should work for either the bigger and the smaller disks.
[quote=“ajcke, post: 12462, member: 97”]Is there a way to delay rename and domain join for x minutes? I have scripts in my answer file setup to run upon first logon. The clients are getting renamed and restarted before the scripts can finish running.
The main script activates Windows 7. If you know of another way to do this that would probably solve this issue as well.[/quote]
Try to stop the FOG Service at the beginning of your script and starting it at the end of it.
If the FOG Service is running it will rename your PC and reboot it, so this will avoid that reboot at least while your script is running.
When we try to multicast an image to a group, it seems it doesn’t start the process until all the computers in the group have connected.
What happens? Sometimes our computer labs have PCs out of order and you have to deploy an image. If you send the multicast task, it doesn’t start and sits in the Please Wait screen waiting for that computer that doesn’t boot.
I suppose that this can be tweaked in /opt/fog/service/common/lib/MulticastTask.class.php, changing the $this->getClientCount() for an static number of minimum hosts.
I have a couple questions about the process. Let’s say that I want to deploy 19 PCs and set the min-receivers parameter to 15. Supposedly it will start once it reaches 15 PCs, but what about the remaining 4 PCs?
Will they join the same multicast session?
Will the stay out?
Will they wait until the first 15 PCs finish?
Thanks Dustin! I’ve tried and it works perfectly!!! I’ve tweaked the code to open the VNC console in a new browser tab/window so you can still have the FOG console open.
It doesn’t matter if you can integrate it into the side menu, it looks good on the bottom of each host and in that way you can keep the side menu cleaner.
Thanks a lot, mate!!
Hi Dustin,
Rather than that, we’ve set up TightVNC on the computer to accept connections via VNC Client (changed from port 5900 to port 7005 due to security reasons) or VNC Web Client (changed from port 5800 to port 8005).
Now we can open a browser and open [url]http://hostname:8005[/url] and control that computer after providing the password.
It would be good to have a side option that could allow us to remotely control the host without having to open a new browser tab.
I’ve specified Hostname since we don’t have a full inventory of the clients, so we don’t have the IP Addresses for all of them, but we do have their hostnames. It would also be great if you could customize the port you are connecting to. We have used 7005 and 8005 for security reasons, but many folks use the default ports 5800 & 5900.
I hope I’ve made myself clear enough 
Just let me know if you need anything else. Thanks for your time !!!
Nevermind, I already found it.
it is under the Storage Node options.
Hello.
We’d like to add a new submenu item for the hosts to control it remotely via VNC.
It would be a link “Remote Control” that should link to [url]http://$host:$vncport[/url]
What file(s) do I have to edit and where to add this option?
I hope I made myself clear.
It is set to 10 slots by default, but … Can you increase this number of slots?
Where do you change this setting? Does it depend of the number of Storage Nodes?
@Steve: So you deploy the computer “out of the domain”, with a LogonCount=1 in your unattend, and join the domain once it has logged in, right?
Can you post your Finalize.ps1? (Hiding your sensitive data, of course ). It goes on C:\Windows\Scripts, as your SetupComplete.cmd, right?
[quote=“andyroo54, post: 10920, member: 267”]It is still on the website:
[url]http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=5336[/url][/quote]
The links are broken and take you to a Mediafire error page. 
Can anybody re-post the SAD tool? It has been removed from the original site and I could not download it.
I’ve already left a post in the 0.33 What’s new, but it would be great if we could tweak sysprep or unattend after the image is deployed, but before booting.
Just like this [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/hostname-change-joining-domain-before-sysprep-runs-xp-win7.3332/[/url]
I’ve tried following the steps in that post, but it’s a little outdated.
It would be awesome to include the option of tweaking sysprep.inf / unattend.xml to change the hostname and join an AD before booting the computer after deployment. 
I solved it by disabling the Stealth mode in with a registry tweak vi AD GPO: [URL=‘http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting_Host_Management_Showing_Hosts_as_Down#Windows_Vista.2F7_.28Windows_Firewall_with_Advanced_Security.29’]A[/URL]rticle [URL=‘http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting_Host_Management_Showing_Hosts_as_Down#Windows_Vista.2F7_.28Windows_Firewall_with_Advanced_Security.29’]HERE[/URL]
I went mad enabling / disabling firewall, logging packets, changing rules … That made it work. If you are not in an Active Directory, add the registry key, changing DomainProfile for PublicProfile, StandardProfile or PrivateProfile, depending of your needs.
Nevermind, problem solved. The data fields were empty because we had not deployed any image yet.
If I try to get a report of the deployed computers in a date interval, the combo box to select the date appears to be empty.
Same occurs in the SnapIn Log, all the date selection combos appear empty.
Is this a normal behavior?