FMSHostPrimary -> wjfms3.ae.ge.com (was a mix of WJFMS3, wjfms3.ae.ge.com,
WJFMS3.ae.ge.com, WJFMS3.AE.GE.COM across 147 bays)
FMSHostSecondary -> 10.233.112.158 (was a mix of WJFMS3/4 short + .ae.ge.com)
Reasoning: eDNC's CPreScan + DNCdll CDoPersonnel resolve FMS hosts via MFC
CSocket, which calls inet_addr first then gethostbyname. Modern getaddrinfo
(used by PowerShell / Resolve-DnsName) succeeds on the GE corporate net for
this FQDN, but the legacy gethostbyname path does not - eDNC sits there
unable to resolve. Pinning the secondary to a dotted IP makes inet_addr
succeed before any gethostbyname is attempted, so the secondary connect
always works regardless of resolver state. Primary stays as FQDN so the
hosts file pin (added in a separate change to common/manifest.json) gives
gethostbyname an immediate hit. Both values fit the 20-byte buffer cap
that CPreScan + CDoPersonnel use when reading FMSHost* from registry.
Per-bay backups are consumed by Update-MachineNumber's Import-EDncRegBackup
at imaging time, so freshly-imaged PCs land with correct values. Existing
PCs are healed by the matching Type=Registry drift-catcher entries in the
v2 standard-machine manifest.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- 03-ShellDefaults.ps1: Default-User TaskbarAl=0 (left), HKLM policies to
hide Start Recommended section, kill Bing web search + suggestions,
disable Cortana. LTSC-honoured; runs fleet-wide via baseline loop.
- ntlars-backups/: 147 per-machine eDNC registry backups renamed to
flat <MachineNumber>.reg scheme. Historical off-by-one entries from
the original dump rewritten to match CSV-target MachineNo.
- Standard/03-RestoreEDncConfig.ps1: at imaging time, if tech typed a
real machine number at PXE (not 9999), import <num>.reg from the local
staged copy. Restores eFocas IP, PPDCS serial, Hssb relays -- not just
the bare MachineNo. Skipped on Timeclock / 9999 / missing backup.
- Update-MachineNumber.ps1: when tech later sets a real number from 9999,
pull <num>.reg from tsgwp00525 SFLD share (ntlarsBackupSharePath in
site-config) and reg-import it before writing the new MachineNo.
- Restore-EDncReg.ps1: shared helper (Mount-SFLDShare + Import-EDncRegBackup)
used by both callers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
