KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SDA)
Please tell us how you’d like to see the KACE System Deployment Appliance product improved!
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Remove support for SMB1 protocol on K2000
We use Rapid7 to scan our network for security vulnerabilities. As of version 7.2.97 on the K2000, the vulnerable and deprecated SMB1 is still present.
1 voteThis feature request was implemented in SDA 8.2.
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Have media manager load local drivers
instead of uploading the drivers to the smb in the appliance, just extract them to a folder locally and point the media manager to it.
this will save time and also avoid samba concurrent connections issues.35 votesThis feature was released for general availability in SDA 8.1.
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Loading bar of image deployment on target device
On Targert device add a loading bar to check the in order to see where the image is deployed, the technician deploying the image may not be able to see the web interface of the appliance to check the progress status.
For exemple : 0% ----------------- to 100 %
just displays the percentage to copy from the image for example.40 votesThis functionality was added to SDA in v7.0
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Auto PXE boot devices
Coming from WDS, there was an ability to respond to all devices, known or unknown, with different PXE boot policies:
Require users interaction pressing F12
ALWAYS CONTINUE PXE BOOT
Continue to PXE unless user presses ESC
Never PXE bootI could then limit the response to a specific subnet/IP range. And because of it's rather reasonable price, I could easily spin up different WDS servers in different networks. I would really like to see the same with the K2.
In my own environment, when unboxing new equipment, we have a designated VLAN for staging and imaging devices. It would be…
4 votesFunctionality already exists.
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Please build the Kace SDA/RSA Virtual Appliances with the 7.1.94 update.
Please build the Kace SDA/RSA Virtual Appliances with the 7.1.94 update. As the current 7.0.357 contains a bug that does not allow RSA creation across subnets. Currently, I have to build an RSA with the wrong network settings, then update the RSA to v 7.1. Then change the network settings again. This is very time consuming and cumbersome to do.
10 votesA 1TB OVF for 7.2.97 has been released.
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Get KUID from the SMA for an existing machine
Have a pre-install task that will allow you to select an existing device from the SMA to apply the KUID as a post install task. When imaging an existing device with a new HDD/SSD the SDA has no KUID to grab so when the agent is installed it thinks the device is a new device. This causes an issue of having multiple assets that should be the same device asset.
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System Deployment Appliance - Hyper V - 3 TB VDHX
Please Provide a 3 TB Hyper-V VHDX for the K2000
9 votesThis feature was released in SDA 8.0.
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Auto Update of Driver Feed
Add a Check Box to download and install new updates when checking for drivers under driver feed, or add a function to automatically check and down new drivers Daily, Weekly, Monthly.... etc...
It is a pain having to click on each model and then download the driver manually.
7 votesThis feature was completed in SDA 8.0.
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Add Username to eligible Appliance Logs
Currently if a user updates the SDA (K2000) version, the Appliance Upgrade Log only has the date and time of the update. There is no way to see who started the process.
[Mon Jan 7 19:54:22 EST 2019] [notice] XXX Begin K2000 Server Update to 6.1.251 from 6.0.425
[Mon Jan 7 19:54:22 EST 2019] [notice] XXX===========================================================================
[Mon Jan 7 19:54:22 EST 2019] [notice] Removing backup 5.1.84backup.sql.0.gz
[Mon Jan 7 19:54:22 EST 2019] [notice] Removing old database backups
[Mon Jan 7 19:54:22 EST 2019] [notice] kboxupgrade:: NOTICE: Running kboxupgrade.php part 1
[Mon Jan 7 19:54:21 EST 2019] [notice]…15 votesThis feature request has been completed, and you will see user information in the logs after the next most recent appliance upgrade (>7.2).
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Email notification on job completion
As an admin, I would like to be able to get an email notification when an image or scripted install job completes, as well as what the outcome of the job was (successful/failed/partial).
IN addition to success/failure status, it would be nice to have a link to the log file if it did file to see why a job failed.2 votesEmail notifications have been provided as a feature within SDA 8.0.
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Undo the progress bar change in 6.1
Ever since 6.1, when deploying an image we just get a red bar that constantly scrolls. In the older versions it was an actual progress bar that showed which files were being copied and estimated time remaining. This is useless as a progress bar because if a deployment is taking a long time, we don't know if it's just slow, how long is left, or if something is wrong. Terrible design, please go back to the way it was, or give an option.
3 votesGreat News! This feature is in version 7.0. To see all the great features in this release or to upgrade check out the Support Portal https://support.quest.com/download-install-detail/6097755
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Add SecureStartup from WinPE_OCs as option in KBE Manipulator
It would be nice to not have to go through the manual process of adding this package for Bitlocker support. If this was one of the KBE Options in the KBE Manipulator, it would help a lot.
3 votesThis feature request was implemented in SDA 8.2. KBE Manipulator was deprecated, but this functionality was added into Media Manager.
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Allow for package promotion model / Off-Board package Transfer linking
Similar to modern code versioning databases such as Github and Subversion; it would be great to have the ability to do basic version control and promotion. It looks like the existing Off-Board Package Transfer segment would be a good starting point in that it allow for items to be exported from one SDA to a location off box that can then be copied to an alternate SDA. Similar to how the export screen is able to tell if a file present in the restore location is out of date or current, i'm thinking this could easily be adapted to also…
2 votesPackages can be imported/exported between appliances already.
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Show "Alert" at top of screen New Drivers
Popup or where we "alert" license expiry show a popup message when a new driver in the Dell Driver Feed gets updated for "Download and Install" Example, Dell Precision 5510 gets a new video driver update that I am maintaining, when I log into the console a popup at the top tells me it has a new update.
4 votesThis feature was incorporated into the notification system that was released with SDA 8.0. You can receive notifications based driver download activity (among other items).
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K2000 should support VirtIO drivers
With the growing popularity of virtualization hypervisors that require VirtIO drives, Quest should start supporting that. Nutanix with AHV is another example of an environment where VirtIO drivers are required. Everything else we have can handle it, K2000 is the only outlier.
At the moment:
K2000 is not working at all on Nutanix AHV
K1000, even if not officially supported, at least seems working fine44 votesNutanix is officially supported in the current release.
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Guys, please, it's time to implementing IGMP instead PGM. Where are you Kace developers?
All the most popular switches are handling IGMP instead PGM. Please, KACE, go ahead with IGMP support for K2000.
1 voteThis functionality was included in a previous SDA release.
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Ability to create package bundles
I currently have around 11 Task Sequences (Image Workflows) within MDT.
One of the features within MDT that I've been relying heavily upon to reduce overheard when making changes to workflows is using package references.
This allows me to create package bundles of items common to multiple images in a single location opposed to having to update each workflow.
This is especially useful when changes such as introducing new applications is done.We primarily utilize a thin imaging workflow where most systems receive the same Wim containing Windows and MS Office + updates then package installation and configuration is done…
3 votesTask Groups resolved this several releases back.
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Ability to check / uncheck packages instead of dragging and dropping
Ability to check / uncheck packages instead of dragging and dropping.
I'm one of those guys that have ~100 post-install tasks in my scripted installs that all rely on being in that specific order.
Some of these packages are huge in size and take a while to install (Oracle Client & Server, VS2015 / VS2017 etc) with a bunch of configuration being set. Ideally we want to test these packages beforehand.
It would be a huge time win if I was able to check / uncheck packages from being executed.
So I can skip the packages that are unnecessary for…2 votesThis feature request was implemented in a previous SDA release.
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Ability to duplicate a Task Group
Version 6.0 introduced Task Groups. Would be great if it went one step further and allowed us to duplicate task groups. I have many locations that use similar tasks for each deployment but vary slightly (such as time zone). Would be nice to be able to create one task group and then duplicate/modify just the tasks for each location rather than having to build a task group from scratch for each location.
4 votesThis feature was released with SDA 8.0.
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Storage upgrade ability on SDA and RSAs
The only way to upgrade the storage on your SDA/RSA currently is to create a new one from scratch and import all your package backups (there is no full backup/export option to help either) to replace the old one. There are now 1Tb and 3Tb options available but current machines cannot be upgraded - surely this should be a feature.
10 votesFeature available in version 6.1 allowing the ability to use migration assistant to transfer data exactly from one SDA to another. For more details on 6.1 check out : https://support.quest.com/kace-systems-deployment-appliance/kb/263374/upcoming-changes-in-sda-version-6-1
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