Automate OS deployment, driver installation and user state migration.
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Windows User State Management Tool
Streamline migrations by automatically deploying user-specific files along with the operating system settings and applications — and virtually eliminate the risk of losing critical information. With the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SDA), you’re able to specify precisely what data will be transferred in a migration with user state management. When users launch their new computer or newly reimaged computer for the first time, it will contain all the necessary information and application settings from their old computer or operating system.
With the KACE SDA, save time and ensure smoother OS migrations, reduce the risk of losing valuable information during deployments, and cut costs by minimizing user downtime.
How it works:
Intuitive graphical interface
Simplify everyday tasks and eliminate the need for expensive, time-consuming training with the KACE SDA user state migration tool interface. The KACE SDA’s intuitive user interface enables you to capture or load user states with the click of a button, eliminating the need to learn and remember complicated command-line syntax so administrators at all levels can quickly be effective.
Centralized user state management
All captured user states are stored in the KACE SDA’s centralized deployment library, and a convenient graphical menu enables you to quickly access the appropriate user states to place alongside a scripted installation or image. Whether a computer needs to accommodate one or multiple users, the KACE SDA facilitates easy provisioning.
Migration templates
Save time with migration templates that allow you to easily specify what data types and other resources you’d like to migrate. You can also exclude items by file type, such as sound or video files, or exclude specific parts of user folders, such as Shared Music or Shared Pictures folders.
Offline migration
Streamline new OS deployments by using a pre-install task to migrate user data offline without needing to first boot computers in their old operating systems. Simply choose the appropriate migration template to recover the files and settings, and restore users automatically after the OS deployment is complete.
Seamless migration
The KACE SDA’s user state migration makes it easy to deploy user-specific files and settings along with an operating system and applications, reducing the risk of losing this critical data. Use migration templates to specify precisely what data will be transferred and thereby help users comply with policies mandating that they not store certain types of data, such as personal music and video files, on company computers.
Automated Deployments
Get true lights-off automated deployment with the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance’s powerful automated deployment tools. Unlike traditional image deployment tools, the KACE SDA automated deployment system enables you to easily control the order of your deployment tasks so you can ensure that your deployments go smoothly and reboots are graceful. You stay in control because the KACE SDA server is updated in real time with the status of the target devices. For example, you can schedule an entire computer lab to be reimaged at 2 a.m., return the next morning, and determine at-a-glance which deployments were successful, which failed and why.
How it works:
A smart approach
Automation that wraps around the traditional static image is required for a smart approach to automated deployment. This frees up time for more critical IT projects by eliminating manual processes for creating and maintaining gold master images for multiplatform OS imaging and deployments. Gold images are just a starting point for an automated development system. The unique drivers, updates, applications, configurations, and user personality that transform a basic systems image into a functional user experience are layered over that gold image. Get the layers right, and systems deployment becomes an infinitely adaptable. All the components needed to make any desktop, regardless of hardware or software, can be delivered at the time the system is installed.
Task engine
Easily control and track deployment progress for each device in real time with the KACE SDA automated deployment task engine, which provides two-way communication between the KACE SDA server and the systems being deployed. Rest easy knowing that each stage — from image deployment to reboots and post-deployment application installation — is handled properly and with the correct task sequence.
Feedback engine
Get simplified, concise and centralized logging of all deployments from the KACE SDA’s web-based console. After a deployment is complete, quickly obtain information about which deployments were successful and which failed. Easily determine exactly where failures occurred for faster troubleshooting.
Scheduler
Use the KACE SDA’s scheduler to set up delayed, automated deployments. Combined with the KACE SDA’s task engine, the scheduler makes it easy deploy to a large number of devices during non-work hours.
Automation of pre- and post-installation tasks
Save time with the KACE SDA’s automated pre- and post-installation capabilities in the KACE SDA automated deployment tools by eliminating the need to manually build out a single machine. The KACE SDA automates such pre-installation tasks as disk, RAID and BIOS configuration, as well as post-installation tasks including sysprep automation, domain joining, service pack application and script deployment.
Pre-installation tasks
The KACE SDA automated deployment system allows pre-installation tasks such as disk, RAID and BIOS configuration. Quickly prepare a machine for an OS deployment by adding pre-installation tasks to any K-image or network OS installation. Save time by reusing tasks that were customized for previous deployments. Easily add or remove tasks from any deployment using the KACE SDA’s intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
Mid-level tasks
These are tasks in the KACE SDA automated deployment tools that are executed after the image is deployed and before booting into the operating system for the first time. The use of these tasks make it easy to customize a deployment; for example, replacing the unattended file for a specific site, assigning a specific computer name or even injecting files.
Post-installation tasks
Save time and follow the best practice of using thin images with a full-featured set of post-installation tasks, including sysprep automation, domain joining, and deployment of service packs, applications and scripts. Eliminate the effort and cost of creating and maintaining different images (fat images) for different software configurations.
System Imaging and Software Deployment
Simplify Windows, Linux and Mac disk imaging and image deployment. Eliminate manual processes for building and maintaining gold master images for multi-platform OS imaging and deployments, saving you time for more strategic IT projects.
Make automated image deployment, storage and management easier with access to a centralized deployment library — the repository of all system and software deployment assets, such as images, scripted installations, drivers, applications and scripts. Enhance provisioning consistency and reliability by ensuring the correct image or setup is always deployed to the appropriate system. All images are captured and stored to give you an accurate, comprehensive view.
How it works:
Centralized, unattended image deployment
Reduce the time and effort required for deployment and eliminate the need for boot and image disks — even for bare-metal build-outs — by provisioning stored images over the network from the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance’s centralized library. Remotely deploy assembled packages to any network-connected system from the web-based administrative console or locally from a boot menu generated by the KACE SDA.
K-Image format
Easily edit computer and server images, eliminating the need to rebuild images. Single-instancing technology minimizes the time, bandwidth and storage required to capture and archive disk images, while efficient state management allows for lightning-fast system imaging by bypassing redundant file transfers and applying only the most recent updates to the original image. Execute fully automated bare-metal system build-outs with the KACE SDA’s agentless feature.
Improved deployment reliability
Reference all images, network OS installations and related assets from the centralized image deployment library. This improves deployment reliability and saves you valuable time by ensuring that you don’t inadvertently deploy an outdated disk image or script installations to systems.
Bootable Media support
Easily boot remote systems locally to the KACE boot environment (KBE) on a USB drive or from a CD/DVD. This feature allows you to connect to the centralized KACE SDA or KACE SDA Remote Site Appliance to gain access to the full deployment library, and then execute any defined image deployment tasks on the target system. This convenient option can also be implemented when a KACE SDA is not accessible or when it's impractical to deploy the KACE SDA Remote Site Appliance. Include a K-image along with the KBE on the bootable media for a fully stand-alone installation when a reliable internet connection is not available.
Automated deployment configuration
Reduce IT effort and improve accuracy with complete remote configuration for pre- and post–deployment tasks that automate the complete image deployment lifecycle. Create your own pre- and post-installation tasks, or take advantage of convenient built-in tasks for easy image deployment automation.
Hardware-independent software deployment/system imaging
Save time and simplify the installation of operating systems across your network by easily provisioning your PC fleet with the KACE SDA. Install software remotely and maintain up-to-date gold master images across diverse hardware platforms. Use existing images to provision one-off machines to serve specialized functions. The KACE SDA’s network OS-scripted installation capabilities enable hardware-independent PC provisioning of systems by deploying a standard Windows setup from scratch over the network.
Windows driver library
Quickly find the correct drivers for all your hardware and operating systems. The driver detection process verifies driver compatibility with designated operating system installations. Easily add and remove driver files to the driver library. Quickly upload all drivers for any known valid system on your network to the KACE SDA.
Driver updates
The KACE SDA disk imaging and image deployment capabilities provides the tools to import drivers for common hardware manufacturers directly and to capture other vendors' drivers, which minimizes the need to hunt for drivers on the internet while ensuring that the appropriate drivers are available for all your OS deployments. The KACE SDA driver feed functionality will download and organize drivers by computer model.
Automated driver slipstreaming
Simplify image deployments and scripted installations by automatically including the correct drivers. Prior to deployment, quickly verify whether all required drivers reside in the vast, prebuilt KACE SDA driver library, and easily add any missing drivers to the library to automatically include them in deployments. Increase system reliability and ease of deployment with driver verification reporting and automated slipstream updates of drivers.
KACE Systems Deployment Appliance
Fast, automated systems and disk imaging software. KACE® Systems Deployment Appliance lets you automate deployment of configuration files, user states, drivers and applications – whether you’re casting to a single device or multiple devices. Reduce the cost and complexity of endpoint systems imaging, initial installations and provisioning to onsite or remote endpoints while saving time with the automation of repetitive tasks with this Windows and Linux software deployment tool.
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In today’s complex, multiplatform IT environment, manual disk imaging and image deployment processes are unworkable. You cannot afford to waste valuable IT staff time with one-off systems imaging, or risk employee productivity by failing to provide timely operating system imaging, software and proper drivers.
KACE Systems Deployment Appliance offers a fast, automated way to execute large-scale Windows and Linux system deployments across multiple remote sites or networks. This hardware agnostic solution streamlines initial provisioning and ongoing administration of master system images and driver updates across diverse hardware platforms — reducing operational costs while ensuring that connected systems remain up to date and secure. Plus, it restores settings and files so users can immediately be productive with their newly imaged systems.
Key benefits
Centralized management
Streamline large-scale system imaging operation and application deployments to remote sites from any location.
Automated Deployments
Build and schedule complex deployments for a true hands-off experience that lets you retain control.
Fast Implementation
Ease of use and exceptional onboarding support help you get set up quickly and reduce systems image deployment time.
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Features
Administration
Enables easy, centralized recovery, deployment and provisioning via an integrated web-based systems deployment console.
Task engine
Control the order of deployment tasks, handle reboots seamlessly and ensure that the system is updated in real time.
Customizable pre- and post-deployment configuration
Automates all deployment tasks, such as configuring RAID and BIOS, installing applications and deploying your own scripts.
Remote systems repair and recovery
Recovers systems using native Windows, Linux and MacOS tools, including native disk imaging software.
Add-ons
IT Ninja Community
A go-to resource for a wide variety of information on setup and deployment topics, this collaborative community serves as a spot for IT professionals to share with one another.
Free web-based training
Leverage comprehensive, free, web-based training that’s designed to help you get up and running faster and provide you with unlimited access to our complete KACE training library.
Tranxition profile migration solution
Fast, secure premium user profile migration tool that supports a wide range of third-party applications.
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Specifications
- Processor
Two or more vCPUs
- Memory
4 GB or more (Dedicated/Share = High)
- Network Interface
One Ethernet Port
- Available Disk Space
VMware: 500 GB, 1 TB, 3 TB
Microsoft Hyper-V: 500 GB, 1 TB, 3 TB
- Server and Operating System
64-bit
- Virtualization Infrastructure Requirements
For VMware installations:
- VMware ESX/ESXi 6.7 or later
- Open Virtualization Format (OVF) 1.0
For Microsoft Hyper-V installations:
- Windows Server 2019 with Hyper-V
- Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V
For Nutanix installations:
- Azure Marketplace
- Nutanix
Windows Operating system
- Windows 8, 8.1, 10, and 11 Professional, Enterprise
- Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate
- Windows Server 2019, 2016 Essentials, Standard, Datacenter
- Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2 Foundation, Essentials, Standard, Datacenter
- Windows Server 2008 Foundation, Essentials, Standard, Datacenter
Linux scripted installations
- Red Hat Linux AS and ES Versions 6.x – 8.x, 32-bit and 64-bit architecture
- CentOS Versions 6.x – 8.x, 32-bit and 64-bit architecture
- Ubuntu Versions 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 32-bit and 64-bit architecture
To access the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance Administrator Console web-based user interface, use a monitor with a screen resolution of at least 1280 pixels by 800 pixels and one of the following web browsers.
- Microsoft Edge 40.x or later
- Firefox 63.x or later
- Safari 10.0 or later
- Chrome 71.0 or later
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Task Automation Engine
Get true lights-off automated deployment with the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance's powerful automated deployment tools. The KACE SDA task automation software engine is unlike traditional image deployment tools because it enables you to easily automate Windows tasks and control the order of your deployment tasks. This ensures your deployment tasks finish smoothly and reboots are completed gracefully. You stay in control because the KACE SDA server is kept updated with live status of the target devices.
For example, you can schedule an entire computer lab in a remote building to be reimagined overnight, return the next morning and determine at a glance which deployments were completed successfully, or which failed and why. The task automation software engine makes all of this fast, simple and effective.
How it works:
Task sequencing engine
Easily control and track deployment progress for each device in real time with the KACE System Deployment Appliance’s task sequencing engine. The task sequencing engine provides two-way communication between the KACE SDA server and the systems being deployed. Rest easy knowing that each stage — from image deployment to reboots and post-deployment application installation — is handled properly and with the correct task sequence.
The KACE SDA makes it easy to fulfill all your organization's system provisioning needs with capabilities for inventory assessment, OS and image deployment, user state migration, system configuration, application installation and recovery.
Use the KACE SDA’s task scheduler engine to set up delayed, automated deployments. Combined with the KACE SDA’s task sequencing engine, the task scheduler makes it easy to schedule a deployment to a large number of devices during non-work hours. Schedule automated deployments for a single device or hundreds of devices.
KACE SDA task automation software engine enables you to easily automate Windows tasks and deploy using unicast or multicast methodology. KACE SDA enables you to build a flexible library of tasks that can then be delivered in a zero-touch way; you're in the driver's seat, but you don't have to drive!
Feedback engine
Get simplified, concise and centralized logging of all deployments from the KACE System Deployment Appliance’s feedback engine, all while you automate Windows tasks.
Throughout the deployment, you will be able to view all of the current devices and their tasks in the task automation software that are currently scheduled for this deployment, such as create a partition, apply image, copy post install files and update configuration for OS tasks. The task engine also communicates in real time with each system as it's being deployed. So, you can see exactly what's happening throughout the process. This two-way communication also enables the KACE SDA to handle complex deployment tasks, such as multiple reboots.
After a deployment is complete, quickly and easily obtain information about which deployments were successful and which failed. Easily determine exactly where failures occurred for faster troubleshooting and resolution.
System Deployment with Multicasting
Streamline your large-scale systems imaging projects with the powerful multicast imaging software capabilities of the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SDA). You’ll save time, improve speed to deployment and lighten the load on your network resources and bandwidth with multicasting.
How it works:
Multicasting
Multicasting supports one-to-many data transmission across the network, rather than creating multiple one-to-one connections to each system. Through the process of multicasting, the communication and processing overhead of sending the same data packet or data frame is minimized. The destination nodes send join and leave messages that inform the routers of whether they are correct recipients of the messages. The KACE SDA multicast imaging software sends the data packet only once, irrespective of the number of users. The KACE SDA multicast imaging software then performs necessary replications so that the packet can reach multiple receivers simultaneously.
Quickly and efficiently deploy the same image simultaneously to multiple systems and improve imaging performance with the KACE SDA multicast imaging software. Ensure the reliability and robustness of your multicasting deployment with two-way communication between target devices on your broadcast network and the KACE SDA server. Gain confidence that your deployments stay on track with frequent status updates and rebroadcast requests.
Reduced bandwidth consumption
Multicasting allows you to send a single image over your network once to multiple targeted destination systems. Using the KACE SDA multicast imaging software greatly reduces the amount of bandwidth consumed by large-scale deployments. A number of factors determine deployment speed, such as the size of your image and the number of systems involved. Combine multicasting system deployment capabilities with the KACE SDA's powerful task engine to enable true hands-off and lights-off system imaging to further reduce bandwidth consumption and improve network performance during work hours.
In unicast, one station transfers the information to only one receiver station. In multicast, the sender transfers the information to a group of interested receiver stations. The fundamental difference between unicast and multicast is that unicast is one-to-one communication and multicast is a one-to-many communication process.
Unicasting, multicasting and broadcasting all have differing degrees of message delivery. In the multicast case, devices effectively subscribe to receive messages. In the broadcast case, however, devices receive messages regardless of whether or not they want to. In the unicast case, the device is the only one receiving that message. With the KACE SDA systems imaging solution, you can easily select the deployment method that fits your situational need.
Send a single image over your network once to multiple systems using the KACE SDA and greatly reduce the amount of bandwidth consumed by large-scale deployments, depending on the size of your image and the number of systems involved. Combine multisystem deployment capabilities with the KACE SDA’s powerful task engine to enable true lights-off software distribution to further reduce bandwidth consumption and improve network performance during work hours.
Remote Site Management
Extend the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance to reduce the time it takes to manage systems at multiple off-site locations with the remote administration and management capabilities of the virtual KACE SDA Remote Site Appliance (KACE SDA RSA). The KACE SDA RSA provides the ability to network boot devices for local deployment at the remote site, instead of across your WAN, saving network bandwidth, time and speed, eliminating costly travel and shipping of media and systems.
How it works:
KACE SDA RSA
Dramatically decrease the time and complexity of managing a multisite organization. The KACE SDA RSA can be added from the KACE SDA administrator’s web-based console, which enables the ability to synchronize various components and upload images to deploy at the remote site.
Centralized deployment library
Easily stage images and scripted installations, along with related assets such as boot environments, captured user profiles, drivers, applications and scripts, at remote sites. Reduce network impact and maintenance effort by automatically updating assets via the smart synchronization of changes only.
Network OS Installation and Configuration
Save time and simplify network OS installation and configuration for devices across your network by easily provisioning your PC fleet with the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance. Install software remotely and maintain up-to-date gold master images across diverse hardware platforms. Use existing images to perform network OS installation and configuration across many devices at once or provision one-off machines to serve specialized functions. The KACE SDA’s remote operating system installation capabilities enable scripted installation or captured hardware-independent imaging of systems by deploying a standard image locally or over the network. Need to deploy Linux or Mac? KACE SDA can handle those too.
How it works:
Hardware-independent deployment
Use the KACE SDA’s scripted installation to automate network os installation and configuration. Remotely install software to any desktop, laptop or server with a single scripted installation, regardless of computer hardware configuration. This remote, unattended installation reduces the costs and complexity of deployment, and saves valuable IT time. Scripted installations provide a reliable and customizable method for deployment in heterogeneous hardware environments and an efficient way to build and maintain gold master configurations. You can also easily integrate applications and files with scripted installations, enabling complete systems provisioning with far less effort.
Remote access during Installation
Use the KACE SDA’s pre-configured remote access tool to connect to a device during network os installation and configuration. This allows you to interact directly with the device if necessary while the KACE SDA Task Engine is performing the OS installation and configuration over the network.
Pre- and post-installation tasks
Streamline all of your network os installation and configuration tasks with scripted installations or full system Images. The KACE SDA task engine is used for both local and remote operating system installations. The KACE SDA Task Engine employs pre-installation tasks – which include disk, RAID and BIOS configuration, and its post-installation tasks include sysprep automation, domain joining, and service pack, application, and script deployment. Of course, you can customize and create tasks to fit all of your needs. Local and Remote operating system installation is much more comprehensive with the use of the KACE SDA Task Engine.
Improve deployment reliability
Reference all network operating system installation and configuration images and related assets from the centralized deployment library whether you use the KACE SDA, the KACE SDA Remote Site Appliance, or bootable-removable-media. The KACE SDA disk imaging software improves deployment reliability and saves you valuable time by ensuring that you don’t inadvertently deploy an outdated disk image or network operating system installation to systems.
Automated driver slipstreaming
Simplify network os installation and configuration by automatically including the correct drivers in each setup to slipstream drivers. Prior to deployment, quickly verify whether all required drivers reside in the vast, prebuilt KACE SDA driver library, and easily add any missing drivers to the library to automatically include them in deployments. Increase system reliability and ease of deployment with driver verification reporting and automated slipstream updates of drivers. The KACE SDA disk imaging and image deployment capabilities provide the tools to import drivers for common hardware manufacturers directly and to capture other vendors' drivers, which minimizes the need to hunt for drivers on the internet while ensuring that the appropriate drivers are available for all your OS deployments. The KACE SDA driver feed functionality will download and organize drivers by computer model.
Windows Deployment and Updates
A feature of the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance. Streamline migrations by automatically deploying user-specific files and settings along with the operating system and applications — and virtually eliminate the risk of losing critical information. The KACE Systems Deployment Appliance includes user state management that enables you to specify precisely what data will be transferred in a migration. When users launch their new computer or operating system for the first time, it will contain all the necessary information and applications from their old computer or operating system.
Conduct driver updates for all the machines you support with one click. The KACE SDA driver manager will automatically download and organize them by computer model.How it works:
Centralized user state management
All captured user states are stored in the KACE SDA’s centralized deployment library, and a convenient graphical menu enables you to quickly access the appropriate user states to place alongside a network OS install or image. Whether a computer needs to accommodate one or multiple users, the KACE SDA facilitates easy provisioning.
Migration templates
Save time with migration templates that allow you to easily specify what data types and other resources you’d like to migrate. You can also exclude items by file type, such as sound or video files, or exclude specific parts of user folders, such as Shared Music or Shared Pictures folders.
Intuitive graphical interface
Simplify everyday tasks and eliminate the need for expensive, time-consuming training with the KACE SDA user state migration tool. The KACE SDA’s intuitive user interface enables you to capture or load user states with the click of a button, eliminating the need to learn and remember complicated command-line syntax so administrators at all levels can quickly be effective.
Offline migration
Streamline new OS deployments by using a pre-install task to migrate data offline without needing to first boot computers in their old operating systems. Simply choose the appropriate migration template to recover the files and settings, and restore users automatically after the OS deployment is complete.
Seamless migration
The KACE SDA’s user state migration makes it easy to deploy user-specific files and settings along with an operating system and applications, reducing the risk of losing this critical data. Use migration templates to specify precisely what data will be transferred, and thereby help users comply with policies mandating that they not store certain types of data, such as personal music and video files, on company computers.Automated driver updates
Update drivers for all the machines you support with one click. The KACE SDA driver manager will automatically download and organize drivers by computer model. It automatically detects the brand and model of all hardware, peripheral devices and software drivers, ensuring accurate driver updates. The KACE SDA even automatically imports Dell™ software drivers directly, minimizing the need for you to hunt for drivers on the internet while ensuring that the appropriate drivers are available for all your OS deployments.Image Deployment
Make systems provisioning, image storage and management easier with access to the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance centralized deployment library — the repository of all system and software deployment assets, including images, network installations, drivers, applications and scripts. Enhance provisioning consistency and reliability by ensuring the correct image or setup is always deployed to the appropriate system. All images are captured and archived to provide an accurate, comprehensive view, often eliminating the need for removable media, such as CDs and DVDs.
How it works:
Centralized, unattended image deployment
Reduce the time and effort required for deployment and eliminate the need for boot and image disks — even for bare-metal build-outs — by provisioning stored images over the network from the KACE SDA’s centralized library. Remotely deploy assembled packages to any network-connected system from the administrative console or locally from a boot menu generated by the KACE SDA.
Windows driver library
Quickly find the correct drivers for all your hardware and operating systems. The driver detection process verifies driver compatibility with designated operating system installations. Easily add and remove driver files to the driver library. Quickly upload all drivers for any known valid system on your network to the KACE SDA.
Windows user state management
Save time and ensure smoother OS migrations and computer upgrades by centrally capturing, storing and deploying user-specific settings and files with KACE software deployment tools. Reduce the risk of losing valuable information during deployments by designating a user state to be deployed alongside an image or network OS install. Cut costs by minimizing user downtime and eliminating the need to ask users to back up and restore their files and settings before an OS or computer migration.
Virtual remote appliance
Easily stage images and OS installations, along with related assets such as drivers, applications and scripts, at remote sites. Reduce network impact and maintenance effort by automatically updating assets via the smart synchronization of changes only.
USB and CD support
Easily boot remote systems locally to the KACE boot environment (KBE) on a USB drive or from a CD, and then connect to the centralized KACE SDA to access the full deployment library. It’s a convenient option for smaller sites when a KACE SDA virtual remote appliance isn’t practical. Include a K-image along with the KBE on the USB drive for a fully stand-alone installation when a reliable internet connection is not available.
Automated deployment configuration
Reduce IT effort and improve accuracy with complete remote configuration for pre- and post–deployment tasks that automate the complete deployment lifecycle. Create your own pre- and post-installation tasks, or take advantage of convenient built-in tasks for easy deployment automation.
Pre-installation tasks
Quickly prepare a machine for an OS deployment by adding pre-installation tasks to any K-image or network OS installation. Save time by re-using tasks that were customized for previous deployments. Easily add or remove tasks from any deployment using the KACE SDA’s intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
Post-installation tasks
Save time and follow the best practice of using thin images with a full-featured set of post-installation tasks, including sysprep automation, domain joining, and deployment of service packs, applications and scripts. Eliminate the effort and cost of creating and maintaining different images (fat images) for different software configurations.