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KACE Systems Deployment Appliance 9.0 Common Documents - Administrator Guide

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

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.

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 UEFI Partitions from the list to display the Pre-installation Task Detail page.
3.
Optional: In Name, change the name to identify the task.
4.
In DISKPART Script, verify that the command-line options match the ones you want to use.
The KACE 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.
5.
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.

Apply a UEFI partition

Apply a UEFI partition

You can apply the UEFI partition that you created as a pre-installation task.

1.
On the left navigation pane, click Library to expand the section, then click Post-installation Tasks to display the Post-installation Tasks page.
2.
Click Apply UEFI Partitions to display the Post-installation Task Detail page.
3.
In Name, enter a logical name to identify the task.
4.
Select a Runtime Environment. See About runtime environments.
5.
In BAT Script, verify the script and make any necessary changes.
6.
Click Save.
The task is now available to assign to scripted installations, sysprepped system images, and non-sysprepped system image deployments.

Capture System-provided WIM images

Capture System-provided WIM images

You can capture WIM images for faster deployments using automated multicast deployments to send the same WIM image to multiple devices simultaneously. You can also deploy WIM images across all devices in the enterprise, and across hard disks of any size in the KACE Boot Environment (KBE).

The device with the image that you want to capture does not have to match the target devices for deployments; however, drivers are required for each device model to which you are deploying the image.

1.
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.
If the device boots in to the hard drive instead of the KBE, boot the device in to the KBE.
2.
Click Capture image of this machine.
3.
In Image Name, create a name to identify the image.
The appliance automatically adds the .wim extension.
4.
In Image Source, select the drive letter from where you are capturing the image.
The appliance automatically adds the colon to the drive letter, for example C:
5.
Select Windows Imaging Format (Fast compression) for Image type.
6.
Click Start capture to upload the image to the System Images page.
A progress bar appears at the bottom of the page, indicating how much progress has been made through the task for each selected partition. You have an option to cancel the capture, if required.

Edit a system image

Edit a system image

You can rename, replace, remove, or edit K-Images and WIM images.

Before modifying a system image, make a backup copy.

The System Image Detail page allows you to view the image settings, add a boot action, download the log files for the image, and set the options for how the appliance responds to errors. For Windows K-Images and WIM images, it also indicates if an image is sysprepped.

You can only edit system images on the appliance that captured them. For example, if you view the details of a system image captured by the appliance, you can edit that image on the System Image Detail page in the appliance Administrator Console, but not in the KACE Remote Appliance Console. If that system image is captured on the appliance and synced to the RSA, the System Image Detail page in the KACE Remote Appliance Console only allows you to review the system image details, but not to edit them. A link appears on this page that allows you to quickly navigate to the System Image Detail in the appliance Administrator Console, and edit the system image, as required.

The Installation Plan enables you to create a task sequence by adding the available pre-installation, mid-level, and post-installation tasks to run in the order that you place the tasks for the deployment.

The Browse Files option is only available for system images.

1.
Select the name of the image to display the System Image Detail page to edit the image.
2.
Click Browse Files to open the Browsing Files dialog box to edit the images with the following options:
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K-Images only.
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Click Add Drive to add a partition. The drive name must contain an uppercase letter with a colon at the end.
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To rename or remove a drive, click the appropriate icon next to the desired drive letter.
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Windows K-Images an WIM images only.
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To add the contents of a ZIP file, navigate to the directory where you want to add the files, click Add Zipped Files, navigate to the desired ZIP file, and click Submit, then click Commit. The contents of the zipped file are extracted to the selected location. To verify the contents of the system image after committing the change, when the dialog box closes, on the System Image Detail page, click Browse Files and review the list of files.
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To rename or remove a drive, click the appropriate icon next to the desired drive letter.
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All images.
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To add a directory, click Create Directory, then type the name of the new directory that you want to add.
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To add a file, click Add File, navigate to the desired file, and click Submit.
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To add the contents of a ZIP file, navigate to the directory where you want to add the files, click Add Zipped Files, navigate to the desired ZIP file, and click Submit, then click Commit. The contents of the zipped file are extracted to the selected location. To verify the contents of the system image after committing the change, when the dialog box closes, on the System Image Detail page, click Browse Files and review the list of files.
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To rename, delete, or replace files, hover over the file name, and click the appropriate icon.
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To rename, delete or download a directory, click the appropriate icon next to the desired directory.
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To download a file, click the file name.
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To drill down to the directory contents, click the directory name.
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NOTE: When you replace a file with a different file, the appliance replaces the contents of the files, but retains the original filename.
3.
Optional: WIM images only. Obtain additional system image information from the Windows registry.
a.
Next to Registry Info, click Show.
b.
Review the contents of the Windows registry items for the selected system image.
4.
Optional. Review the latest log file recorded during the system image capture, if applicable.
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Click Server Log to see what the server recorded during the image capture.
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Click Client Log to see what the server recorded during the image capture.
If size of the log file is greater than 500 kb, you can also download the log file.
5.
Optional: Configuration files only.
a.
Next to Config XML, click Show, and review the file contents that appear. The contents of the file are read only.
b.
To download the file, under the file contents, click Download XML File.
6.
Optional: Task files only.
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NOTE: Read-only users do not have access to this field.
a.
Next to Task XML, click Show, and review the file contents that appear. The contents of the file are read only.
b.
To download the file, under the file contents, click Download XML File.
7.
Optional: Under Deploy Options, select Remove local files not in image when restoring the original image to a device, and when files have been added or modified on the device that is not in the original image.
8.
Assign tasks to the system image, as required. For more information, see Assign tasks to system deployment.
9.
When you finish your edits, click Cancel to roll back the changes, or Save to apply the changes to the image.
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