SDA (K2000)
Please tell us how you’d like to see the System Deployment Appliance product improved!
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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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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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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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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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add pre-installtion task to capture name for Mac
There are scripts to capture the name for a windows machine you are deploying via an onscreen prompt, but for Mac the only option is to have it grab the existing name of the machine. We join our macs to our domain, and we need to make sure the machines follow our internal naming convention especially for new machines. Add a pre-install task that grabs the existing name and prompts the tech to change it if they want like we do for windows!
3 votesWe have marked this item as complete because it has been addressed in previous releases. If there are further questions or alternative suggestions please feel free to submit another ticket.
Many thanks!
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Showing synced System Images/KBEs in RSA
It would be much easier to see what is synced with RSA when they are listed in RSA dashboard itself.
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Modify WIM Image files
Provide the ability to browse and modify the files & folders in a WIM file from the web portal.
131 votesCompleted in version 5.0
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Migrate one SDA to another SDA
Implement process to migrate one SDA to another SDA
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Windows Configuration Manager
If we could use provisioning packages created with Windows Configuration Designer as a mid or post level task during deployment we could simplify our image creation and editing process. I also might bring a lot of extra functionality to the game.
1 voteWoohoo! This feature is available in 7.2 and you can use ppkgs created with WCD as PO tasks.
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Upgrade Multiple RSAs as Action from Remote Sites Screen
When you manage multiple RSAs, it's a pain to upgrade all of them when you finish an upgrade of the master appliance.
From the remote sites screen on the master appliance, you should be able to check the box next to multiple RSAs, and choose Upgrade Remote Site from the Action dropdown.8 votesThis feature request has been completed. After upgrading the SDA to 7.2, you can use this feature to upgrade multiple RSAs.
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MTU adjustment
Please add the ability to adjust MTU. It appears Kace appliances use the default 1500 mtu for ip4 connections. It seems most modern networks support well beyond this.
The ability to adjust for our environments would have a huge impact on deployment times.
12 votesFeature available in version 6.1. 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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multicast
Multicast supporting IGMP instead of PGM would be great.
56 votesThis request has been implemented in the SDA (K2) 4.0 release
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Filter Installation Tasks
since some companies could have a lot of post install tasks, it'd be nice to be able to search the tasks while adding them to the image and then be able to drag them with out leaving the screen search results. Scrolling through 300+ PITS is cumbersome.
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Windows 10 Deployments
I started playing around with Windows 10 Enterprise Pre-Release. I downloaded the AIK from here: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=526740
The new version of Windows 10 can be found on Microsoft Technet or here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-enterprise-technical-preview
The issue that I see at present is that the Dell Kace Deployment Application Client: MSHTA.exe will not run on the WinPE 10.
However, a way to install 10 is to navigate to Y:\source_cds\9 (or the updated Windows 10 source CD) then run setup.exe
This will at least install Windows 10. It isn't a work around, but at least it might Windows 10 a step closer to trying it…
7 votesThis request has been implemented in the SDA (K2) 3.7 SP3 release
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Support for building Mac OS X 10.10 boot environment
At the moment, we can't use the K2000 to deploy to new Mac Mini or iMac hardware as their hardware isn't supported by the 10.9 boot environment.
6 votesSystem Deployment Appliance 4.1 (SDA/K2000) supports up to 10.12 boot environment
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Hide Scripted installed or System Images from KBE
It would be nice to have the ability to "hide" certain images or scripted installs from within the KBE environment. We have images that only get used once or twice a year and our list of images is almost 100 so if you could "hide" them from the list our technicians wouldn't be able to select the old images.
54 votesThis feature was released for general availability in SDA 8.1.
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Automate the reboot count process
Rather than having the xml answer file plug in the number of reboots, look for an automated way of calculating the reboots or count them as the system reboots and update status to know how many are still needed. Sometimes, I come up one short or one more than needed. Argh!
30 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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Increase file size limit for PO tasks
The size limitations for the K2000 keep me from creating PO tasks for important app installs like the Adobe CS Suite. The package is much greater than the ~2GB limit. Would be great to have this relaxed to a much higher size
1 voteThis suggestion was completed in version 6.0.
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ClientIP in k2000 kbe
I was looking for client IP, once booted, but it only shows server K2000 IP address at the bottom.
Would it be possible to add that right next to the K2000 IP address in the future?
Thanks,
Marek5 votesThis request has been implemented in the SDA (K2) 4.0 release
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Add VNC to Task Engine in windows.
Add VNC (maybe as a checkbox option before deploying) to the Task Engine after image/scripted install is pushed for remote support during post-installation tasks in windows.
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