Hi Nathan, thanks for contributing so much to this thread. Would you happen to have a guide for your MDT process with this toughpad? We just got one of these in and it would be great if we didn't have to reinvent the wheel. We're planning a bigger order of around 35 of these later in the year. It looks like you've worked really hard on this, so thank you in advance for anything you can offer the community!
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Is anyone having issues with the Toughpad just turning off while docked in the patrol car? If someone has a fix please email me at:
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For the following scenario panasonic fz-g1 tablet with vebg11 dock, and downgrading to win7x64
I downloaded the all in one drivers pack.
http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/computer-support-search-downloads.asp
and gtm139le_eng.exe for the GPS from panasonic.
uploaded to sccm2012, drivers.
then downloaded
CradleLanDriver_v7008_G1A_W764_ss13094.exe [4.79 mb]
http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/computer-support-search-downloads.asp
extracted using win rar or equiv
and all USB drivers including USB3
http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/computer-support-search-downloads.asp
then added the cradle and usb drivers to the drivers list and to the boot image in sccm2012.
and turn your tablet on and go into the bios. disable UEFI boot. save and reboot
plug a usb keyboard inot the tablets usb port, press f12 and you should be good to go booting from the network.
If you are manageing multple devices a dock is well worth while...
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please ignore this line item wrong file name
and gtm139le_eng.exe for the GPS from panasonic
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Here is the documents we have:
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And another one:
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Thank you both! I was able to get it working with the USB boot and on the dock. I haven't tried the PXE boot. I got everything working with MDT with the latest Win 8.1 x64 drivers. I also tried SmartDeploy to evaluate the convenience factor vs time spent in MDT, but found they do not have the latest drivers available in their platform pack for this model. They have the pack for Win 8, but not Win 8.1 and certain drivers fail. Must have to get a custom one made if the one in their library isn't the latest and greatest, or make one yourself. Maybe I overlooked something though.
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We just released a version of SmartDeploy that supports Windows 8.1 so there aren't many Platform Packs that contain drivers for that OS. Our patented methodology for boot time driver injection is OS specific, so by design, the Windows 8 drivers won't get applied on an 8.1 install. In that scenario you'd just get whatever drivers are inbox with that version of Windows.
You are correct though. Presales, you can choose from the existing library of Platform Packs. Post sales, these are things that can be created per support request.
That's cool that you got MDT to work for you, nice work! I'd consider SmartDeploy like you say for time savings and longer term ease of product use, particularly if these imaging tasks fall on the hands of less technical team members.
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We used the Dell KACE K2000 appliance and the FZ-VEBG11 desktop dock to capture and deploy an image. The trick was to change the USB settings in BIOS from 3.0 to 2.0 for a successful PXE boot. We also had the keyboard connected to the device's USB port, and used the FX-G1's volume and Windows buttons along with the keyboard to navigate menus in the boot environment.
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You guys can also use Acronis True Image 2014 to capture image on the ToughPad. I did this with Windows 8 Ent x64. Can't do it on Win 8 Ent x86 as no drivers available yet. Used the FZ-VEBG11 dock as well. But other issue came out. Getting black screen after it has been on the dock for some time. But if it is OFF the dock, it doesn't happen. Maybe something wrong with dock circuitry? Will call Panasonic about this.
Hope this helps.
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There is an update for PXE-legacy boot from cradle LAN from Panasonic. Please go to this link:
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The G1 is a challenge to image, especially if you have the model without an Ethernet port. However, we are able to image Window 8.1 Pro w/ Acronis Snap Deploy 4. The USB bootable agent is both UEFI and BIOS bootable. You do need to change the BIOS settings to boot to Compatible and enable CSM. There is a step by step upgrade doc to W8.1P from W8P from Panasonic that enumerates all the drivers needed. Acronis can do standalone deployment also (which is one by one for out of network or mobile units). While it supports PXE I did not try that. I also tried to inject the Ethernet drivers into the Linux USB boot drive but was not successful there though Acronis claims it should work. The Havis dock we used has an Ethernet port but there is no Linux driver for the Acronis boot drive so it is not recognized. Well we are doing this for a...
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Hi Louis
Do give a buzz to our Support folks - they should be able to help you with the driver.
PM me with the case number so I can help if needed.
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Here's the case number - thanks.
02100119
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I still havnt got these imaged but I feel like I am getting closer every time we try. I have two documents Panasonic sent me but dont know how to upload the .docx files here for everyone.
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File 1.
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File 2.
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Not sure if anyone has tried this or not but with MDT 2012 if you use the new windows PE image which is basically a windows 8 boot image with Windows 7 there is something in it that will allow you to use a keyboard and mouse to deploy using MDT while the toughpad is sitting in the docking cradle.
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I can conform that we did get imaging working with the help of Panasonic. We were unable to get "boot to network" working, we must boot to USB KEY. Currently we are imaging them with out standard Windows 7 image, I am going to make a VM in VMware Workstation to get it.
We are using a driver package that injects the drivers after the image is installed.
I am attaching a screen of our MDT server.
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Using MDT 2012 and running into similar issues. Cannot get past the "Loading files" screen. Got stuck at that point and neither mouse or keyboard will respond. Tried reloading the device using just a regular Windows 8 boot disk, again froze at the Windows splash screen. My device is the FZ-G1 model.
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