FOG Project
The Impersonator
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Use the FOG imaging server to image and rollout several installations with a single click.
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Managing a network full of computers can sap the energy out of any admin, irrespective of the number of computers in your network. Whether you oversee a lab full of computers at school or the network of a multinational company with offices across the world, you can use the FOG project to manage them with ease.
FOG helps take the pain out of time-consuming and repetitive tasks such as imaging and cloning computers. FOG also makes light of regular administrative tasks such as installing software and can even manage printers on the network. All theatrics aside, FOG’s most essential task is to help you image an installation that can then be deployed to other computers on the network, which is what I’ll cover in this tutorial.
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