A5Ben

I was able to get a shirt and lanyard as well! Was great to see the EduGeek booth at ISTE2012!

Is it on your list of features to possible make HAP work for multiple sites? I have 20 schools that I would like to set this up for...... Thanks, Ben

We are beginning to purchase MAC's in our district. Most, for their own reason, want a dual boot system with SL/Win7. I wanted to ask those here that use MAC in an enterprise or school environment what you use to image? I see several programs that will backup and restore the mac image but none that claim to take a single disk image that will allow me to restore bot OS's in one operation. Am I missing something? Thanks! Ben in SC

Ah yes, I read that NETDOM is no longer required as of 0.29.

Chris, Can you give a little more information? Or are you saying there should be no problems with existing names?

Well, even though WDS is working it has it's shortcomings.. For instance it would be great to be able to schedule imaging of computer labs. My WDS system is pretty slick as I use a PXE menu similar to FOG already that is password protected and branded for our district. Maybe the designers of FOG will incorporate this hack into a future release.... Sure would make life easier.

Found an even better thread on their forums... https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/forums/forum/730844/topic/3622667 Lots of work but what I need.... Maybe my working WDS system is better than I thought LOL.... Ben in SC

I think that the image replication will work out of the box, I read about a new process that handles that on the Fog server. I haven't deployed a second server yet to see if it will retain the TFTP/PXE boot processes but I don't think that it will from reading the user guides. I suppose that the configuration could be modified to point to a central database server instead of the local one and that could make this all work the way that I want...... Time to do some testing I guess. Thanks! Ben in SC

This thread: SourceForge.net: FOG - A Free Cloning Solution: Topic: Deploying Across a WAN Describes exactly what I want to do but he got no replies.................... Ben

I currently use WDS on a WAN with 22 remote locations (schools) and it works "fairly" well. I started looking into Fog to get the ability to schedule imaging of remote computer labs. I'm trying to envision a Fog system that would utilize central Fog server but would allow clients to receive their image from their local Fog storage server..... Does anyone know if this is even possible or would I need a for server (web gui) at each site and maintain them all separately? Thanks! Ben in SC

Yes, I've been looking to play around with this as well!!!

I have looked for a simple way to do just what you have outlined. I had hoped to use a linux distro as a replacement for our Netware servers as we began looking at a migration path. The complexity and lack of *nix experience on my staff led us to migrate to a full MS environment for our file servers. Ben

Does anyone know of a good product that makes it easy to manage a unix server as an active directory file server? To manage groups and permissions etc.... Thanks, Ben

We use Specops Deploy in our environment to deploy software to 6000 workstations. It's very powerful with the ability to target a computer with all kinds of targeting criteria. Can install MSI's and legacy apps such as exe's. HTH, Ben

Yes, were deploying XP and the syspreped machine is not already on the domain prior to capturing the image. Let me know if you find that patch you spoke of!! Thanks! Ben