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.
OWNERSHIP.md
Every expensive bug in this pipeline has had one shape: two systems setting the
same thing, last writer winning silently. Four happened on 2026-08-06 alone -
computer name (package vs run-enrollment), drive letters (PESetup vs a volume
finder), enrollment (package vs an at-logon -ManualFallback task that syspreped
finished machines), kiosk URLs (GE-Enforce vs site-config). Each is written down
with the evidence so the next person deletes a writer instead of adding one.
share-drift.py
The share is production and the repo is meant to describe it, but drift runs both
ways: live hand-edits nobody committed, and repo fixes never deployed. The
unattend outage lived only on the share while the repo copy was fine, and nothing
compared them.
Each mapped pair is classified. git-owned means the repo wins and the pair must
match - those fail the run. unreconciled means the two have genuinely diverged
and nobody has decided; reported, not failed. The unattends are unreconciled on
purpose: live is ~17 KB against ~12 KB in the repo, so a blind push would regress
production. Reads over SSH via base64 so BOM and CRLF survive the hop.
First run: 8 git-owned pairs all match, 4 known-unreconciled.
Run-ShopfloorSetup.ps1
Corrects a comment that was actively misleading. It claimed shopfloor PCs are
"vanilla by design" and that the orchestrator runs -ManualFallback to skip BPRT
injection and the package entirely. Shopfloor bays DO enrol - the SFLD package
joins Entra with its BPRT token and a human assigns the device category in
Intune. -ManualFallback runs sysprep /oobe /reboot, which is why wiring it to an
at-logon task destroyed the deployment chain.
The absent Entra wait is still correct, for a different reason: at that point the
bay is on the isolated PXE LAN with no route to Entra (579C144 held 172.16.9.81
and 172.24.19.142, neither in the production ranges). sync_intune retries until
the tech re-cables. "Entra ID Joined: false" right after imaging is normal.
