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KACE Systems Deployment Appliance 4.1 - Release Notes

Quest® KACE® Systems Deployment Appliance (K2000) 4.1 Release Notes

Quest® KACE® Systems Deployment Appliance (K2000) 4.1 Release Notes

About the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (K2000) 4.1
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This release notes document provides information about the Quest KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (K2000) version 4.1.

About the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (K2000) 4.1

About the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (K2000) 4.1

The KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (K2000) provides a network-centric solution for capturing and deploying images. The K2000 provides a seamless cross-platform imaging solution from a single Administrator Console enabling you to provision Microsoft® Windows® and Apple® OS X® platforms. You can deploy the configuration files, user states, and applications as an image to a single device or to multiple devices simultaneously.

The K2000 provides the tools necessary to automate deployments in both homogeneous and heterogeneous hardware environments, and provides reliability of large-scale image deployments with multicast and task engine capabilities. The built-in driver feed automatically downloads Dell driver models, and the Package Management feature enables uploading third-party driver packages. You can also integrate the K2000 with the KACE Systems Management Appliance (K1000) to image the K1000 inventory. The K2000 is available as a virtual or physical appliance.

The KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (K2000), version 4.1 is a minor release of the product which brings several Remote Site Appliance (RSA) improvements and additional OS support to the appliance. Many capabilities that have been added to the core appliance over the last couple of releases, have been brought into the RSA. These include RSA user state capture, RSA image capture, and RSA multicast capabilities. Additionally, support for Mac OS X® Sierra (10.12) and Windows Server® 2016 have been added.

New features and enhancements

New features and enhancements

The following new features and enhancements are included in this release:

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RSA improvements.
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Starting in this release, the RSA supports multicast deployments (ESMEA-1710).
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The RSA can now capture system images (ESMEA-1967) and user states (ESMEA-1968).
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When changes are made to WIMs, DMGs and K-Images, Save and Sync from the RSA is required (ESMEA-587).
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Extended platform support.
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Windows Server 2016 and Mac OS Sierra (10.12) are now supported (ESMEA-1057, ESMEA-2168).
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KBE (K2000 Boot Environment) improvements. UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) and Legacy/BIOS information is added to the KBE footer (ESMEA-2610).

To find out more about the new features in this release, watch the video tutorials available on our Support site: https://support.quest.com/kace-systems-deployment-appliance/kb?k=what%27s%20new.

Deprecated features

Deprecated features

The following is a list of features that are no longer supported by the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (K2000).

Table 1. Deprecated Features

Feature

Issue ID

The previous RSA is no longer supported and a K2000 running version 4.0 cannot sync data to the older 32-bit RSA. There is a tool and a process to migrate data from your existing 32-bit RSA to the new 64-bit version. Refer to "Migrate existing 32-bit RSA to 64-bit" for more details about the migration process.

RSA v3.7

Using Windows® User State Migration Tool (USMT) 10 to deploy User State profiles scanned with USMT 4 tools is not supported.

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NOTE: USMT 5 tools are uploaded as USMT10 using the Windows Media Manager.

USMT 4

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