Network OS Installation and Configuration
Save time and simplify network OS installation and configuration for devices across your network by easily provisioning your PC fleet with the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance. Install software remotely and maintain up-to-date gold master images across diverse hardware platforms. Use existing images to perform network OS installation and configuration across many devices at once or provision one-off machines to serve specialized functions. The KACE SDA’s remote operating system installation capabilities enable scripted installation or captured hardware-independent imaging of systems by deploying a standard image locally or over the network. Need to deploy Linux or Mac? KACE SDA can handle those too.
How it works:
Hardware-independent deployment
Use the KACE SDA’s scripted installation to automate network os installation and configuration. Remotely install software to any desktop, laptop or server with a single scripted installation, regardless of computer hardware configuration. This remote, unattended installation reduces the costs and complexity of deployment, and saves valuable IT time. Scripted installations provide a reliable and customizable method for deployment in heterogeneous hardware environments and an efficient way to build and maintain gold master configurations. You can also easily integrate applications and files with scripted installations, enabling complete systems provisioning with far less effort.
Remote access during Installation
Use the KACE SDA’s pre-configured remote access tool to connect to a device during network os installation and configuration. This allows you to interact directly with the device if necessary while the KACE SDA Task Engine is performing the OS installation and configuration over the network.
Pre- and post-installation tasks
Streamline all of your network os installation and configuration tasks with scripted installations or full system Images. The KACE SDA task engine is used for both local and remote operating system installations. The KACE SDA Task Engine employs pre-installation tasks – which include disk, RAID and BIOS configuration, and its post-installation tasks include sysprep automation, domain joining, and service pack, application, and script deployment. Of course, you can customize and create tasks to fit all of your needs. Local and Remote operating system installation is much more comprehensive with the use of the KACE SDA Task Engine.
Improve deployment reliability
Reference all network operating system installation and configuration images and related assets from the centralized deployment library whether you use the KACE SDA, the KACE SDA Remote Site Appliance, or bootable-removable-media. The KACE SDA disk imaging software improves deployment reliability and saves you valuable time by ensuring that you don’t inadvertently deploy an outdated disk image or network operating system installation to systems.
Automated driver slipstreaming
Simplify network os installation and configuration by automatically including the correct drivers in each setup to slipstream drivers. Prior to deployment, quickly verify whether all required drivers reside in the vast, prebuilt KACE SDA driver library, and easily add any missing drivers to the library to automatically include them in deployments. Increase system reliability and ease of deployment with driver verification reporting and automated slipstream updates of drivers. The KACE SDA disk imaging and image deployment capabilities provide the tools to import drivers for common hardware manufacturers directly and to capture other vendors' drivers, which minimizes the need to hunt for drivers on the internet while ensuring that the appropriate drivers are available for all your OS deployments. The KACE SDA driver feed functionality will download and organize drivers by computer model.