KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SDA)
Please tell us how you’d like to see the KACE System Deployment Appliance product improved!
99 results found
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SDA Multi Org Support for better SMA integration
SDA Multi Org Support for better SMA integration
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USB Image Encypted
When creating a USB Image, have the data encrypted. This will protect sensitive passwords from being exposed. In the event the USB Stick is lost.
3 votes -
Sync images captured on RSA to SDA
Version 5 finally allowed users to capture images to the RSAs. We're on version 6.1 now and are still unable to sync/replicate those images back to the SDA. In K-12 education, we use shared images across all our sites. The ability to capture images anywhere is great, but what's the point if you can't share that image with the rest of the sites? We have 23 RSAs. Being expected to export/import these images is absurd.
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SDA data visibility outside of appliance
The SMA (K1) has the ability to query and view all kinds of information using SQL, API, and the KACE GO app. I would like to see this same kind of visibility added to the SDA. When imaging a batch of computers, I'm not always able to sit there and make sure everything works. Using my phone to log into the SDA web interface is very cumbersome. Making this information more readily available and easier to access on the go would be a big benefit.
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Have RSA's replicate in Parallel.
It is ludicrous that it takes up to 6 days to sync 60 RSA's when there is a driver feed update. The fact that the SDA only syncs the RSA's concurrently slows the process way down.
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Add Support for Xen Hypervisors
We run our KACE appliances in a very open source shop, so the current hypervisor options are less than ideal. We would like to see support for KACE appliances on Xen based hypervisors, especially XCP-ng. (The XCP-ng folks are awesome to work with, KACE engineers!)
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Better RSA sync scheduling - mimic SMA days/hours
Many of my RSAs are in locations that have VERY limited hours I can use max bandwidth. Why can't there be a calendar setup like the SMA where I can specify what hours of what day of the week sync'ing can occur? I have to manually start/stop sync'ing as there's not enough granularity in scheduling the sync. Why can't we have the low/high bandwidth settings just like the SMA? I spend WEEKS, not hours trying to sync my RSAs.
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Add Option to Pull Serial Number from Ending Characters When Using SetComputerName
Add variable/option to pull serial number from ending (rightmost) Characters When Using SetComputerName. Windows computer name character limits paired with naming conventions and how some manufacturers prefix serial numbers lead to multiple duplicate computer names when trying to use the $Serial variable in setcomputername_x64.exe due to truncation. An option to use the ending characters from the serial and truncate the beginning would be very useful here.
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Using KBE to gather and deploy USMT
It would be nice to be able to use USMT on hardware that is not on the domain of your SDA.
Use case:
Organization acquires another company and we need to gather existing profiles from dissimilar hardware/domain.It'd be nice to be able to boot to KBE on an external drive (SSDs are super cheap these days) and use KBE to gather local profiles using SDA tasks to that external drive, then import them into the SDA for new asset imaging.
Going one step further, we could use the KBE with offline images to gather the USMT, and do an…
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It would be nice to have something that cross references patch exit codes to a description of what the code means
This could be as simple as a table where a user can enter some patch exit codes and what those codes refer to. This would be a time saver when looking through patch failures to determine the cause instead of having to look up the codes on a regular basis.
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Windows Server 2022 Deployment
Please add Windows 2022 Deployment support to KACE SDA (K2000)
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name manual deployments
It would be great if we had the option to name a manual deployment. That way when multiple deployments are kicked off we can follow which is which.
3 votes -
Windows 11 Deployment
Please add Windows 11 Deployment support to KACE SDA (K2000) ASAP.
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Progress Section
Add the same Progress section that is in the SDA to the RSA which will allow you to monitor progress if imaging off the RSA
3 votes -
modifying task que list
I came across a customer where rsa updates had hung for about a week, after we rebooted the task que had a few hundred tasks to do. For all the rsa's I had to enter each rsa to cancel the update manually, and that did take a lot of time. If we could get access to the task que directly we could have marked all the items we didn't want to do at the moment, and deleted them from the que in one operation.
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Please include an exclusion list for k-images
I would like to see the ability to exclude files from being included in a k-image such as pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys to allow the images to be smaller
2 votesGreat idea, if we can make it foolproof so that the image is bootable. Need to have a “never exclude” list.
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When upgrading the SDA from 8 to 9, please copy the driver feed drivers from the old location to the new one?
We upgraded from a late version of 8 to 9.0.144. I found that none of the drivers in the old location (driverspostinstall\dell\windows10x64) were copied to the new location (Z:\driverspostinstall\windows\10\x64\any\dell).
I didn't find that out until yesterday while working with support to discover why driverfeed wasn't working for VMware machines (that's another issue).
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Enable to "kill" a blocking sync task
We have been facing a lot of situations where the sync queue was hanging and therefore the whole appliance is useless as nothing can be done anymore. This always requires calling the support which causes workload for the support, the customer and wasting time, cause the only thing Support will do is kill the hanging process. If there would be a "button" to kill the "current hanging" task it would be beneficial.
Example: RSA replication hangs because of new version has been installed but no version check, if the "nightly sync" task hits that rsa the whole queue is stuck…
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Ability to upload MIG files downloaded from the RSA into the SDA
The USMT profile is currently able to be exported from the RSA and could run a custom task to deploy the MIG file. Would be better if there was an option to import MIG file into SDA to be selected during image deployment from SDA. This would be similar to current process of images captured on the RSA that can be exported - then imported into another RSA or SDA.
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Update the embedded version of 7-Zip in the Driver Feed Builder Application
The current version of the Driver Feed Builder v3.0.0.0 uses an embedded version of 7-Zip v9.2. The current stable version of 7-Zip v19.00.
The current embedded version v9.2 is flagging in our enterprise anti-virus solution due to vulnerabilities in that version. Suggest replacing with current version v19.00 at a minimum.
Should take a minimum amount of time to provide this update in the next version of the Driver Feed Builder application.
2 votes
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