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KACE Systems Deployment Appliance 4.1 - Administrator Guide

About the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (K2000) Getting started Using the Dashboard Configuring the K2000 Setting up user accounts and user authentication Configuring security settings Preparing for deployment Managing device inventory Using labels Creating a Windows Boot Environment Managing drivers Capturing images Capturing user states Creating scripted installations Creating a task sequence Automating deployments Performing manual deployments Imaging Mac devices About the Remote Site Appliance Importing and exporting appliance components Managing disk space Troubleshooting appliance issues Updating appliance software About us Legal notices Glossary

Capture system images

Capture system images

You can capture images with the K2000 or remote (RSA) appliances, after you boot the device in to the K2000 Boot Environment (KBE).

You can run the Sysprep tool on the image to remove any system-specific settings before you boot the device in to the KBE. Quest KACE recommends capturing a non-sysprepped version of your gold image first in case you have to restore the image to the original device.

After the device boots in to the KBE, you can access the built-in VNC remote control software to capture images from remote devices to the K2000.

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Boot the device with the image that you want to capture in to the KBE. From the KBE Main Menu on the device, click Imaging.
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TIP: The information appearing at the bottom of this screen provides details about the K2000 appliance or RSA connected to this KBE, such as its IP address, OS version, architecture, boot mode, Mac address, and other relevant data.
If the device boots in to the hard drive instead of the KBE, boot the device in to the KBE.
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Click Capture image of this device.
3.
In Image Name, enter a name that identifies the image on the appliance.
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In Image Source, ensure that all the drives that you want to capture appear in the list.
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Click Force continue on errors to continue the capture and the upload process even if warnings and fatal errors occur.
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Click Include debug output in log to enable debugging level logging and upload the logs to the Appliance Logs page.
Turning on debugging might increase the time it takes to capture and upload the image.
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Click Start capture.
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The capture process adds a system image entry to the System Images page in the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance Administrator Console, and also in the Remote Site Console, if the image is captured using an RSA.
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The K2000 appliance assigns an ID to each captured system image.
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TIP: Each system image captured with the K2000 appliance or its linked RSAs has a unique ID. This allows the appliance to keep track of all the different system images captured with the linked (K2000) or remote (RSA) appliances, and to synchronize any images, as you edit them. To find out an ID of a specific system image, hover over the system image name on the System Images page. The ID appears in the bottom-left corner.
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NOTE: An image captured on an RSA is only stored on the RSA and does not synchronize to the K2000 appliance. After configuring an image captured from an RSA, on the K2000 appliance, synchronize that RSA to the K2000 appliance prior to deployment.
Configure the image with all of the required files, tools, and software using a deployment task sequence. You can edit some images or specify their deployment tasks, as required. For more information, see the following topics:
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Edit a system image
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Assign tasks to system image deployment
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Create a single partition

Create a single partition

You can add the built-in Create Single Partition pre-installation task to create a single primary partition.

1.
On the left navigation pane, click Library to expand the section, then click Pre-installation Tasks to display the Pre-installation Tasks page.
2.
Select Create Single Partition to display the Pre-installation Task Detail page.
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Optional: In Name, change the name to identify the task.
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Enter a script to create a partition.
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In Notes, add a note to identify the task.
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Click Save.
The task is now available to assign to scripted installations, sysprepped system images, and non-sysprepped system image deployments.

Format C drive as NTFS

Format C drive as NTFS

You can add the built-in Format C: as NTFS pre-installation task to format and set the C drive as an NTFS file system.

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On the left navigation pane, click Library to expand the section, then click Pre-installation Tasks to display the Pre-installation Tasks page.
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Select Format C: as NTFS to display the Pre-installation Task Detail page.
3.
Optional: In Name, change the name to identify the task.
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Click Save.
The task is now available to assign to scripted installations, sysprepped system images, and non-sysprepped system image deployments.

Create a UEFI partition

Create a UEFI partition

You can add the built-in Create UEFI Partitions pre-installation task, which uses a DiskPart script, to create a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) hard drive partition on Windows 7 x64 SP1 or higher x64 UEFI-enabled devices.

The NTFS format does not work on UEFI-enabled devices. UEFI-enabled devices use the GUID Partition Table (GPT), which uses a global unique identifier for devices that is different from the commonly used Master Boot Record partitioning style in the BIOS.

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On the left navigation pane, click Library to expand the section, then click Pre-installation Tasks to display the Pre-installation Tasks page.
2.
Select Create UEFI Partitions from the list to display the Pre-installation Task Detail page.
3.
Optional: In Name, change the name to identify the task.
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In DISKPART Script, verify that the command-line options match the ones you want to use.
The K2000 Boot Environment (KBE) automatically identifies the hidden EFI partition while capturing the UEFI image, and assigns the drive letter S during the capture.
For more information on DiskPart commands, see Common DiskPart command-line options.
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Click Save.
The task is now available to assign to scripted installations, sysprepped system images, and non-sysprepped system image deployments.
Use the Apply UEFI Partition mid-level task to apply the partition.
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