Its been a long time since I’ve done any kind of PXE based boot imaging, I’ve found references to something called FOG that is open source but what other options are there?
Any feedback on what you’ve used or are currently using would be helpful thanks!
Way back in the day I used clonedeploy but that project lost maintainers. There is theopenem which is pretty neat.
If you are a windows environment then setup intune in the cloud with your on-premises AD (hybrid).
I’ve been using the basic of FOG for a little while, and it will work. The biggest downside is lack of secure boot support. The hoops to jump through and the cost to sign everything puts this out of reach for the FOG Project and out of reach for the ipxe.efi boot loader group.
I had not ever seen theopenem, I’ll have to take a look at it as it might be a better way forward.
[edit] looks like it is using parts of the Windows ADK for building Windows machines. I’ll need to sit and read through the documentation, but it looks like it might be better for me than FOG.
Just going to add the TheOpenEM looks like it might solve some of my problems better than FOG. My system is not part of the greater work domain, under which all Microsoft licenses exist, I can not run InTune or AutoPlay or SCCM/Config Manager. Since WDS no longer works with the Win11 boot.wim and using it for deploying Win11 images is deprecated (officially, there are work arounds) I went to FOG. But thick images like this leave me with a bunch of post image installs, Creative Cloud is miserable, so I’d be happy if I could automate a few more of these installs and TheOpenEM looks like it might be an easer method forward and worth some testing.
So thanks for the suggestion.
Way back I used a program called Drive Image to cast individual images to targets on the network. It was bought out multiple times since then and i’ve lost touch with what tools are used for mid-large scale bare metal deployments.