Comments on: Episode 4 – Shining the Light on FOG http://www.thetightwadtech.com/2010/05/26/episode-4-shining-the-light-on-fog/ Doing More with Less Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:19:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: JohnM http://www.thetightwadtech.com/2010/05/26/episode-4-shining-the-light-on-fog/comment-page-1/#comment-46 JohnM Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:42:11 +0000 http://www.thetightwadtech.com/?p=101#comment-46 Shane, how's it going? Small world as always eh? We're in the middle of testing various candidate machines for some lab updates this summer with Win7 Enterprise 32 & 64bit. So far no problems with sysprep (bar the 3 runs restriction). We've uploaded a few images and deployed them for testing but haven't tried the hostname changer and AD integration, we'll have to soon cause if that doesn't work we'll have a real problem. If you find out anything in the mean time let me know. Likewise I'll post back here if we do.   John Shane, how's it going? Small world as always eh? We're in the middle of testing various candidate machines for some lab updates this summer with Win7 Enterprise 32 & 64bit. So far no problems with sysprep (bar the 3 runs restriction). We've uploaded a few images and deployed them for testing but haven't tried the hostname changer and AD integration, we'll have to soon cause if that doesn't work we'll have a real problem. If you find out anything in the mean time let me know. Likewise I'll post back here if we do.
 
John

]]> By: Shawn http://www.thetightwadtech.com/2010/05/26/episode-4-shining-the-light-on-fog/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Shawn Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:01:45 +0000 http://www.thetightwadtech.com/?p=101#comment-39 Hey guys.  This Summer will be my first time dealing with the 7 machines as well.  I only have a few, and will likely get to those last.  I'll come back and post any "aha" moments, but looks like you may have already figured it out.  Thanks for that link Shane! -Shawn (shawn@thetightwadtech.com) Hey guys.  This Summer will be my first time dealing with the 7 machines as well.  I only have a few, and will likely get to those last.  I'll come back and post any "aha" moments, but looks like you may have already figured it out.  Thanks for that link Shane!

-Shawn (shawn@thetightwadtech.com)

]]> By: Shane http://www.thetightwadtech.com/2010/05/26/episode-4-shining-the-light-on-fog/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Shane Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:10:05 +0000 http://www.thetightwadtech.com/?p=101#comment-38 @John this is the guide I followed for Sysprep http://blog.brianleejackson.com/sysprep-a-windows-7-machine-%E2%80%93-start-to-finish-v2 @John this is the guide I followed for Sysprep http://blog.brianleejackson.com/sysprep-a-windows-7-machine-%E2%80%93-start-to-finish-v2

]]> By: Shane http://www.thetightwadtech.com/2010/05/26/episode-4-shining-the-light-on-fog/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Shane Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:21:39 +0000 http://www.thetightwadtech.com/?p=101#comment-35 Hi John I will get some notes together shortly as I still have a few issues to work out with the sysprep. I am not having any joy with the hostname change and domain join yet. What do you need your sysprep to do? I am not doing any driver installation or anything at this point as I have a hardware specific image for each client type. You will find my contact details on my website (hint: click where it says Shane above my post) if you want to email. Would be nice to help out a fellow irishman!! I think I had a mate go to Griffith! Hi John
I will get some notes together shortly as I still have a few issues to work out with the sysprep. I am not having any joy with the hostname change and domain join yet.
What do you need your sysprep to do? I am not doing any driver installation or anything at this point as I have a hardware specific image for each client type.
You will find my contact details on my website (hint: click where it says Shane above my post) if you want to email. Would be nice to help out a fellow irishman!! I think I had a mate go to Griffith!

]]> By: JohnM http://www.thetightwadtech.com/2010/05/26/episode-4-shining-the-light-on-fog/comment-page-1/#comment-34 JohnM Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:24:36 +0000 http://www.thetightwadtech.com/?p=101#comment-34 @Shane - Could you post some details up on sysprep and fog for Windows 7? We've had great success using it with WinXP here but both admins who knew sysprep have left so there's a gap in knowledge. It would be great if you could share your experiences, there doesn't even seem to be anything up on the FOG wiki about Win 7 yet. Thanks,   John @Shane – Could you post some details up on sysprep and fog for Windows 7? We've had great success using it with WinXP here but both admins who knew sysprep have left so there's a gap in knowledge. It would be great if you could share your experiences, there doesn't even seem to be anything up on the FOG wiki about Win 7 yet.

Thanks,
 
John

]]> By: Steve http://www.thetightwadtech.com/2010/05/26/episode-4-shining-the-light-on-fog/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Steve Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:35:14 +0000 http://www.thetightwadtech.com/?p=101#comment-25 We are using LANDesk currently, but are looking at options. FOG ticks all the boxes for remote deployment, but what are you all using for remote management? We are using LANDesk currently, but are looking at options. FOG ticks all the boxes for remote deployment, but what are you all using for remote management?

]]> By: Shane http://www.thetightwadtech.com/2010/05/26/episode-4-shining-the-light-on-fog/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Shane Fri, 28 May 2010 11:27:08 +0000 http://www.thetightwadtech.com/?p=101#comment-22 We bought ghost and never got it to work over the network. two days with fog and it was working a treat. just did my first batch of Windows 7 images today and although the new sysprep is a pain to learn, fog was a champion. this is a classic example of why Open Source software is just so much better. to the developers...thank you!   To the guys behind tightwad, like the shows, will be tuning back in next week.   We bought ghost and never got it to work over the network. two days with fog and it was working a treat. just did my first batch of Windows 7 images today and although the new sysprep is a pain to learn, fog was a champion.
this is a classic example of why Open Source software is just so much better.
to the developers…thank you!
 
To the guys behind tightwad, like the shows, will be tuning back in next week.
 

]]> By: aviad (hotfortech) http://www.thetightwadtech.com/2010/05/26/episode-4-shining-the-light-on-fog/comment-page-1/#comment-20 aviad (hotfortech) Thu, 27 May 2010 21:29:31 +0000 http://www.thetightwadtech.com/?p=101#comment-20   <span>Just finished hearing the podcast.</span> <span>Great to hear about all of the new additions to version 0.29.</span> <span>Also big man love from Israel as well :)</span> <span> </span> <span>Because I am using FOG as the base for my PXE </span><span><span>Utilities, I have written a subset of the installation guide on my wiki, and a</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif">lso thats why I heavily link back to the FOG site.</span> <a href="http://hotfortech.wikispaces.com/how+to+setup+Aviad's+PXE+server+%26+extensions" rel="nofollow">http://hotfortech.wikispaces.com/how+to+setup+Aviad's+PXE+server+%26+extensions</a> <span></span>   <font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span><span>And one last thing, Mark & Chuck, you guys should definitely put a PayPal button on your site... I know that I’d use it.</span></span></font>  
Just finished hearing the podcast.
Great to hear about all of the new additions to version 0.29.
Also big man love from Israel as well :)
 
Because I am using FOG as the base for my PXE Utilities, I have written a subset of the installation guide on my wiki, and also thats why I heavily link back to the FOG site.
http://hotfortech.wikispaces.com/how+to+setup+Aviad's+PXE+server+%26+extensions

 
And one last thing, Mark & Chuck, you guys should definitely put a PayPal button on your site… I know that I’d use it.

]]> By: aviad (hotfortech) http://www.thetightwadtech.com/2010/05/26/episode-4-shining-the-light-on-fog/comment-page-1/#comment-19 aviad (hotfortech) Thu, 27 May 2010 20:16:47 +0000 http://www.thetightwadtech.com/?p=101#comment-19 just linked to your site today... keep up the good work, and thank you for all you have done so far :) just linked to your site today…
keep up the good work, and thank you for all you have done so far :)

]]> By: Ray Herring http://www.thetightwadtech.com/2010/05/26/episode-4-shining-the-light-on-fog/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Ray Herring Thu, 27 May 2010 09:37:12 +0000 http://www.thetightwadtech.com/?p=101#comment-18 I've been using FOG since February this year with 0.28 at a primary school here in the south-west of Western Australia. The server i am using isn't the beefiest of computers (celeron 2.8GHz w/ 512MB RAM), but i managed to do up an image of one of the libraries new 30 computers, get AD integration set up, and deploy that image out to all 30 computers (initially doing the unicast deployment and finding it would take about 9hrs or so). Then, the other day i decided to try out 'multicast' and managed to deploy a newly created image onto those machines in less than 10mins. Only thing that gets a bit repetitious with FOG now is that i have to remove all user profiles from the machine, run defrag, remove it from the AD, and then when Windows says it needs to reboot because of that change, the FOG task just fires up and uploads the image. Will be adding an extra 32 computers to the FOG system soon (when the new building is built), have to say that FOG has completely removed the necessity to take the computer away, re-install windows (plus software), 2 hrs later, put computer back in place. I also use Group Policy to deploy my software... I've been using FOG since February this year with 0.28 at a primary school here in the south-west of Western Australia.

The server i am using isn't the beefiest of computers (celeron 2.8GHz w/ 512MB RAM), but i managed to do up an image of one of the libraries new 30 computers, get AD integration set up, and deploy that image out to all 30 computers (initially doing the unicast deployment and finding it would take about 9hrs or so).
Then, the other day i decided to try out 'multicast' and managed to deploy a newly created image onto those machines in less than 10mins.

Only thing that gets a bit repetitious with FOG now is that i have to remove all user profiles from the machine, run defrag, remove it from the AD, and then when Windows says it needs to reboot because of that change, the FOG task just fires up and uploads the image.
Will be adding an extra 32 computers to the FOG system soon (when the new building is built), have to say that FOG has completely removed the necessity to take the computer away, re-install windows (plus software), 2 hrs later, put computer back in place.
I also use Group Policy to deploy my software…

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