Everything West Jefferson specific moved out to a separate repo
(pxe-site-wj): NTLARS/UDC/heat-treat backups keyed by WJ machine numbers,
CMM and Wax/Trace bay lists, WJ OpenText profiles, site-config.json, the
WJ preinstall list, and the WJ shopfloor PC types (Collections,
NoCollections, Common, Keyence, CMM, Genspect, HeatTreat, Wax/Trace,
Display, PartMarker) with GE-Enforce, machine numbers and the desktop
layout. The part-marker bench tools moved to their own repo. Dead
scripts removed: build-proxmox-iso, deploy-bios, sync_hardware_models,
mirror-from-gold, pull-bios, startnet-template.cmd.
Shopfloor is one generic type, gea-shopfloor-standard, with today's
timing:
- PPKG at first logon (unattend Order 10, unchanged).
- Install-AppList.ps1 runs C:\PreInstall\preinstall.json during setup.
- A new SYSTEM task, GE Shopfloor Post-PPKG, runs postppkg.json once
after the post-PPKG reboot. It also clears AutoLogonCount after the
ShopFloor handover (the Users-level monitor can be denied that HKLM
write) and removes the Intune Sync task when done.
- Both lists ship empty. A site adds entries and installers.
- WinPE choice 3 goes straight to the PPKG menu. Staging, fetch and heal
carry only the generic payload. The webapp's shopfloor sub-menu editor
is gone, and the imaging tiles name the new stages.
- The playbook deploys the empty lists only if missing. It now deploys
the PowerShell 7 MSI the shopfloor unattend installs, which it never
did before.
Blancco site settings move into the webapp (Updates > Blancco releases):
business location, licensing Wi-Fi SSID and password. They are rendered
into the served preferences.xml and applied to every staged release, and
are seeded from site-vars (site_name, blancco_wifi_ssid,
blancco_wifi_password) only while none exist. The repo XML carries no
site values; the plaintext Wi-Fi password is gone from it.
New site_name and site_timezone settings: report and evidence-pack site
name, server clock and webapp time zone. No more West Jefferson defaults
in webapp/config.py or the dashboard title. Sync-BPRT.ps1 gets the
server address filled in at download instead of WJ's GE address.
USB on Windows:
- scripts/Build-PxeUsb.ps1 runs the same checks as build-usb.sh. It
writes one FAT32 CIDATA partition (ISO files plus patched grub.cfg plus
payload) with diskpart and reads every file back by SHA-256.
- Tested with Windows PowerShell 5.1 in the win11 VM, and the layout
installs and first-boots in the pxetest VM.
- scripts/stage-usb-share.sh stages the build folder on a share.
- site-content/ is optional for both builders.
KB docs/kb/How_To_Deploy_PXE_Server_New_Site.html: new-site deployment,
Windows only, with a site-vars.yml guide.
Checks: webapp tests pass (5 suites); the unattend lint and playbook
syntax checks pass; every .ps1 parses; there are no WJ hosts, IPs, names
or PC types in playbook/, webapp/, scripts/ or autoinstall/.
The shortcut fix from e844ff3 has been live in git and absent from the floor
since 2026-08-06. site-config.json exists TWICE on the share, from one repo
source: enrollment/shopfloor-setup/ and enrollment/config/. Only the second one
is staged to a bay - startnet copies Y:\config\site-config.json to
W:\Enrollment\site-config.json - and it was the stale one.
So every bay imaged in the last two weeks came up without the Plant Apps startup
item and without the Defect_Tracker taskbar pin, while the drift report showed
site-config.json in sync, because it was reading the copy nothing consumes. A
green check on the wrong file is worse than no check.
Deployed the repo copy over it (backup on the server at
~/backups/site-config.json.bak-20260819) and marked BOTH destinations git-owned,
so neither can go stale behind the other.
The shopfloor unattend is reconciled the other way round. Live was 87 lines ahead
of the repo - the default-user startup-delay removal, the Windows Update
disables, the removable-media block that stops PPKG auto-detection at OOBE, and
the run-enrollment.ps1 path fix from C:\ to C:\Enrollment. The repo copy was a
201-line fossil. LIVE WINS: these files boot machines, and pushing the repo copy
over them is exactly the 2026-08-06 outage that prompted this tool. Adopted live
into the repo verbatim (lint clean) rather than merging by hand.
Also fixed a pair that could never pass: the engineer unattend was compared
against playbook/FlatUnattendW10.xml, which is the STANDARD answer file, so it
reported DIFFERS permanently. 6f86c81 added FlatUnattendW10-engineer.xml but did
not repoint the pair at it. A permanently red row is one nobody reads, which is
how the site-config gap stayed invisible next to it.
All twelve pairs are now git-owned and in sync, and the gate has nothing left
classified as "known bad" to hide behind.
PESETUP-INTERNALS.md was written from a decompiled 4.0.0.17. The media in
production reports 4.0.0.20 in its own log. Rather than restate the document as
4.0.0.20, which would claim a re-derivation that has not happened, it now names
both: line-level claims are 4.0.0.17, and the behaviour re-observed on bay
579C144 on 2026-08-06 is listed so a reader knows which parts are confirmed
current - media drive Z:, W: created by PrepareDisk and used for every copy
destination, the fallback Deploy\FlatUnattendW10.xml being the unattend that
loads, and driver selection by model.
FlatUnattendW10-shopfloor.xml carried LogonCount 7 while the live shopfloor
unattend has 12, and Run-ShopfloorSetup.ps1's comment about topping up the
autologon budget already said 12. The live value is the real one, so the repo
follows it.
Both files still lint clean under scripts/lint-unattend.py.
Fixes Keyence (and CMM/WaxTrace) imaging where the target got only partial
data: the Y: SMB mount goes idle-dead during WIM apply, so WinPE staging dies
early (often just after site-config.json + ppkg). The first-logon self-heal
was meant to recover but its scripts were themselves staged past the death
point, so nothing ran.
- FlatUnattendW10-shopfloor.xml: new FirstLogonCommands Order-4 bootstrap that
mounts the enrollment share fresh and pulls Fetch-StagingPayload /
Verify-And-Heal-Staging / enrollment scripts into C:\Enrollment before the
Order 5/6 heal runs. Recovery no longer depends on WinPE staging surviving.
Keep CommandLine <=320 and Description <=252 chars: exceeding the unattend
schema length limits makes the whole oobeSystem pass invalid (OOBE prompts,
no autologon).
- Verify-And-Heal-Staging.ps1: add Keyence and WaxTrace heavy-payload heal
branches (previously only CMM). Keyence re-pulls installers-post\keyence\
<model> -> C:\KeyenceInstall\<model>; WaxTrace re-pulls the bundle (minus
formtracepak) plus the bay-matched FORMTRACEPAK-V<ver>.iso.
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Wire the staging self-heal into the imaging flow so a bay re-pulls any missing
payload while still on the imaging LAN (172.16.9.1), before wait-for-internet
takes it to the production network.
- FlatUnattendW10-shopfloor.xml: insert Verify-And-Heal-Staging.ps1 as
FirstLogonCommands Order 5 (right after Fetch-StagingPayload Order 4, before
wait-for-internet); renumber the rest 6-10. Run-ShopfloorSetup stays last and
is NOT the heal point - it runs post-network-switch when the imaging LAN is
gone.
- Fetch-StagingPayload.ps1: also pull the small Verify-And-Heal-Staging.ps1 to
C:\Enrollment so the Order 5 step has it on disk.
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WinPE maps Y: early then idles for minutes during the WIM apply; samba
deadtime drops the idle session, so the WinPE staging copies failed (bay
left with only site-config.json). Add Fetch-StagingPayload.ps1, run from the
unattend FirstLogonCommands at first logon on a FRESH share mount (full
Windows, no prior idle), to pull the shopfloor-setup tree + preinstall
bundle. Detailed per-item log (exit code, counts, timing, mount retries) at
C:\Logs\Fetch\ - the old WinPE staging was opaque.
- Fetch runs as Order 4, BEFORE wait-for-internet.ps1 (Order 5) which switches
the bay to the production network and off the imaging LAN. So Fetch still
reaches \172.16.9.1\enrollment.
- WinPE bulk staging kept as best-effort fail-fast fallback (Phase 1); the
post-boot Fetch is now the authoritative path. Remove the WinPE bulk once
validated. Heavy per-type payloads (CMM/Keyence/WaxTrace) stay in WinPE for
now - Phase 2.
- startnet stages Fetch-StagingPayload.ps1 + writes fetch-source.txt
(UNC/user/pass) for the post-boot mount.
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Single-site bay-stuck issue at WJ: GE Intune Report IP script filters
Get-NetIPAddress on StartsWith("10.") and posts everything matching
to the GE Tines webhook. Bays at WJ get the PXE LAN 10.9.100.x IP
captured and reported -> GE backend tags bays as on a non-corp 10.x
subnet -> dynamic group eligibility for SFLD policy never matches.
Other GE sites work because their PXE LANs aren't on 10.x at all.
Renumber PXE LAN to RFC1918 172.16.9.0/24 so the GE filter naturally
skips wired PXE addresses without any disable-NIC dance.
Server-side already in flight (netplan dual-bound, dnsmasq scope +
boot URL repointed, blancco preferences + grub.cfg + iPXE GetPxeScript
all sed'd to 172.16.9.1). This commit is the playbook / scripts /
docs side: 109 hits across 35 files sed'd in one shot.
After this lands + boot.wim is rebuilt + bays renumber off DHCP,
the 10.9.100.1 binding will be dropped from netplan as the final
cleanup step.
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FlatUnattendW10-shopfloor.xml was rejected by Windows OOBE with
"the answer file is invalid" after the earlier tower-no-WiFi fix.
Root cause: the inline PowerShell in <CommandLine> for Orders 4 and
5 exceeded the SynchronousCommand CommandLine length limit (~1024
chars) and/or contained characters the unattend schema validator
dislikes.
Fix: move the logic to two external PS1 scripts and shrink both
CommandLine entries to ~85 chars each that just invoke the scripts.
- playbook/wait-for-internet.ps1: 60s interactive prompt ("connect
production network now"), then poll TCP 443 to login.microsoft-
online.us for up to 10 min with a hard timeout so the loop always
exits. Uses Test-NetConnection -Port 443 (not Test-Connection /
ICMP) because Microsoft 365 edges do not reliably respond to ping.
- playbook/migrate-to-wifi.ps1: Gates the entire wired-disable
migration on "does a WiFi adapter exist?" If not (tower), the
script is a no-op. If yes, disable wired / wait for WiFi internet
with a 5 min timeout / re-enable wired on timeout fallback.
- startnet.cmd stages both new scripts to W:\Enrollment\ next to
run-enrollment.ps1 during the WinPE phase.
- FlatUnattendW10-shopfloor.xml Orders 4 and 5 shrunk to short
invocations of C:\Enrollment\wait-for-internet.ps1 and
C:\Enrollment\migrate-to-wifi.ps1.
- startnet-template.cmd kept in sync.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
FlatUnattendW10-shopfloor.xml Orders 4 and 5 hung forever on
desktops/towers with no WiFi NIC. Two underlying bugs:
1. Order 4 used Test-Connection (ICMP) against login.microsoftonline.us.
Microsoft 365 endpoints do not reliably respond to ICMP, so even
with working TCP 443 internet the ping loop ran forever. Symptom
on a user-facing machine was the PowerShell window permanently
stuck on "Waiting for internet connectivity...".
2. Order 5 unconditionally disabled all wired adapters and waited for
WiFi internet. On a tower with no WiFi NIC this left the machine
completely offline, and the following while loop waited for a WiFi
connection that could never happen.
Fixes:
- Order 4 now emits a 60s interactive prompt asking the user to
connect to the production network (so towers have a window to
unplug PXE and plug into a production port), then uses
Test-NetConnection -Port 443 with a 10 min hard timeout so the
loop always exits.
- Order 5 checks for a physical WiFi adapter first; if none exists
(tower case), it logs "No WiFi adapter - staying on ethernet" and
returns immediately instead of disabling wired. If WiFi is present
and migration times out, wired adapters are re-enabled as a
fallback so the machine is never left offline.
Both orders now use Test-NetConnection -Port 443 instead of
Test-Connection (ICMP) so ICMP-blocking firewalls and non-responsive
cloud endpoints no longer produce infinite waits.
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- Fix check-bios.cmd: replace parenthesized if blocks with goto labels
(cmd.exe fails silently with if/else on network-mapped drives)
- Move BIOS check files to winpeapps/_shared/BIOS for reliable SMB access
- Add network wait loop before BIOS check in startnet.cmd
- Show firmware status in WinPE menu header (BIOS_STATUS variable)
- Add BypassNRO registry key to skip OOBE network requirement
- Refactor download-drivers.py with --parallel N flag (ThreadPoolExecutor)
- Set SupportUser AutoLogonCount to 3 in shopfloor unattend
- Add shutdown -a at start + shutdown /r /t 10 at end of Run-ShopfloorSetup.ps1
- Switch download-drivers.py from wget to curl for reliable stall detection
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
