KACE Endpoint Systems Management Appliances: What’s New for 2017

KACE Systems Management Appliance 7.0(K1000)

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• Scan in your new or existing assets

• Multiple platform support• Scan and GO!

• Free update to the K1 GO! app

Barcoding

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• Pull data from multiple appliances into single report

• No specialized hardware needed

Cross appliance reporting

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• New easier to use wizard• New features

• Multiple approvers• Specific approver notifications• Approval Timeout

• Customizable notifications• Customize your templates with

HTML/markdown

Process enhancements & approval workflow

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• My devices made easier• Assign devices easier

• Multiple devices? No problem

• Interactive feedback• Get more info during

your install

Self-service software provisioning enhancements

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• Hardware monitoring made easier

• Real-time alerts• Stay on top of your

environment

SNMP Trap Receiver

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AirWatch integration

• Single pane of glass• All your devices in one place

• Integrated asset management• Assign mobile devices to users and

more

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• Supports ESX 5.5 and 6.0• Discover what VM’s are running

on your servers• Get hardware/software details

from your VMware environment• Get hardware usage available

VMware/Vcenter discovery

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• My Profile• More for your users

• See what tickets/assets/devices are assigned to you

Users

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• Manually or automatically assign users to a device• Control Panel > General > Device Assignment• Synchronous occurs upon inventory

• Used in conjunction with user portal and “My Profile”

User/Machine assignment

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• Installing software made easier• Ability to leverage the software

catalog• “Run Now” option added

• Publish for users• Existing MI’s usable from

software portal

Managed Installs

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• Blacklisting improvement• Upgrade/Downgrade rights• Asset Management Appliance licensing changes• Agentless and grandfathering• REST API’s /SDK

• Ability for 3rd parties to pull information about inventory, assets, scripting, reporting, managed installs, and users

Software compliance/Licensing/API’s

KACE Systems Deployment Appliance 4.0 (K2000)

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• Native UEFI support• Removes reliance on current workarounds (Legacy BIOS setting, thumb drives)• Secure Boot still needs to be disabled

• Multicasting in Cisco networks• Router vendors lack Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) support• PGM not designed to cross routers• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is vendor agnostic• IGMP can cross between routers/subnets

• Increased Windows deployment speed• WIM and Kimage speeds 10% faster

KACE SDA Imaging Connectivity and Speed

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• Major focus on underlying OS architecture• Update to the K2000 Appliance 3.7 SP3 (3.7.345)• Combined SDA and RSA codebase• FreeBSD 10.0 to 10.3 for SDA• FreeBSD 7 to 10.3 for RSA• 32-bit to 64-bit for RSA• RSA Hyper-V support

KACE SDA Infrastructure

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