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Quest KACE Installation Manual

KACE® Systems Deployment Appliance 8.0
Release Notes

Table of Contents

Quest® KACE® Systems Deployment Appliance 8.0 Release Notes.................................................... 3
About this release............................................................................................................................ 3
New features and enhancements....................................................................................................3
Resolved issues...............................................................................................................................4
Known issues...................................................................................................................................6
System requirements....................................................................................................................... 9
Product licensing............................................................................................................................10
Installation instructions...................................................................................................................10
More resources.............................................................................................................................. 12
Globalization...................................................................................................................................12
About us.........................................................................................................................................12
KACE Systems Deployment Appliance 8.0 Release Notes
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Quest® KACE® Systems Deployment
Appliance 8.0 Release Notes
This release notes document provides information about the Quest KACE Systems Deployment Appliance version
8.0.

About this release

The KACE Systems Deployment Appliance provides a network-centric solution for capturing and deploying images. The KACE Systems Deployment Appliance provides a seamless cross-platform imaging solution from a single Administrator Console enabling you to provision Microsoft® Windows®, Apple® OS X®, as well as Red Hat, CentOS and Ubuntu Linux platforms. You can deploy the configuration files, user states, and applications as an image to a single device or to multiple devices simultaneously.
The appliance 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 allows for downloads of Dell drivers for business class model machines, while drivers from other manufacturers can be added manually with ease. You can also integrate the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance with the KACE Systems Management Appliance to image devices in the KACE Systems Management Appliance inventory. The KACE Systems Deployment Appliance is available as a virtual appliance.
The KACE Systems Deployment Appliance version 8.0 is a major release of the product which offers new features, enhancements, and resolved issues.
NOTE: This is the only document that is translated for this release, however the localized variants do not
include information about resolve issues, enhancements, and known issues. Other guides, such as the Administrator Guide and in-product help are not localized at this time, and version 7.0 documents are included.

New features and enhancements

The following new features and enhancements are included in this release:
Table 1. New features and enhancements
Feature Issue ID
User Interface notification subscriptions are now available to alert you about manual processes taking place, such as deployments, driver feed, Remote Site Appliance (RSA) synchronizations, and so on.
Email notification subscriptions are now available to alert you about scheduled processes such as deployments, RSA synchronizations, driver feed, upgrades, daily report, and so on. This feature includes external SMTP configuration.
Get/Set Computer Name became the default naming rule for the appliance. Tasks such as wsname and Collect/Apply computer name tasks are removed. It is now
ESMEA-5719
ESMEA-5598
ESMEA-5717
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New features and enhancements
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Feature Issue ID
possible to delete the legacy Collect Computer Name and Apply Computer Name tasks.
The appliance now allows the import of Windows and Linux .iso files through the clientdrop share.
New feature items are added to the SDA Status Overview report, such as Linux task group, user theme, license count data, Driver Feed Auto Update, Server Session Timeout, and Brute Force Detection.
An option is added that allows you update installed drivers from the Driver Feed automatically.
The License Key field on RSA is now read-only, as the key is now automatically synchronized from the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance.
An option is added to enable or disable the KBE Advisor in the KACE Media Manager.
Synchronized user states on are now displayed on RSA. ESMEA-5583
User States captured on an RSA can be imported or exported. ESMEA-4391
Improvements are added to the initial RSA configuration. It is now possible to automatically link and add an RSA to the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance.
The appliance now allows you to create Linux task groups. ESMEA-4975
ESMEA-5716
ESMEA-5702
ESMEA-5596
ESMEA-5595
ESMEA-5587
ESMEA-5062
Starting in this version, you can now duplicate task groups. ESMEA-4463

Resolved issues

The following is a list of issues resolved in this release.
Table 2. Resolved Issues
Resolved issue Issue ID
RSA mass upgrade option did not ask for confirmation. K2-7524
Charlie Root email information was moved to Appliance Logs. K2-7522
The Collect Computer Name and Apply Computer Name tasks have been deprecated. They remain on an appliance if attached to a deployment, but can be deleted at any time. If not attached to a deployment the tasks are removed.
Source Media fingerprint did not match the Boot Environment fingerprint K2-7500
A .wim file did not show up in the clientdrop share if the extension was in all capital letters.
K2-7520
K2-7498
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Resolved issue Issue ID
The Dell Driver Feed Settings page did not automatically refresh driver feed
K2-7491
information after a successful update.
The length of the name field on numerous pages has been increased to 60
K2-7485
characters.
The name field on numerous pages was increased to 60 characters. K2-7478
The KBE footer showed the wrong information for Boot Mode on a legacy BIOS
K2-7476
system.
Media Manager did not properly remove the mapping to the drive when a KBE build
K2-7464
failed.
Media Manager reported an Invalid Windows directory when uploading
K2-7460
Linux.
Media Manager gave a wrong error when uploading to an IP that is not the KACE
K2-7459
Systems Development Appliance.
It was not possible to sync an RSA even though the appliance versions matched. K2-7458
RSA mass upgrade option did not check the RSA version prior to sending the
K2-7457
upgrade .kbin file.
Clicking an image detail on an RSA of a synced image caused a page not found
K2-7455
error.
RSA detail page was locked because the status thought it was still upgrading K2-7452
RSA License status message said linking key instead of license key. K2-7448
RSAs were not getting updated license keys from the appliance. K2-7447
The password field for Linux Scripted Install Wizard was not validated. K2-7438
Scripted Install Wizard was causing Microsoft Windows Server 2019 to fail due to an
K2-7434
XML validation.
Scripted Install Source Media field was showing Image Files. K2-7432
Typo appeared in the remote site detail success banner for save and sync on RSA. K2-7430
Library widget was showing wrong count numbers for all source media. K2-7428
The appliance was failing to mount a slice of the disk after a reboot when offboard
K2-7416
storage was enabled.
Changed wording in dialog box for Media Manager when password is incorrect. K2-7415
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