Quest endpoint systems management experts Sean Musil and Bruce Johnson will show you how securing your network can be made faster, safer and easier with the newest capabilities added to KACE Endpoint Systems Management Appliances. Watch the webcast here: http://bit.ly/2gIOc50.

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

2. 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

15. 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

18. Watch the webcast here:
http://bit.ly/2gIOc50

19. Thank you