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Dell Kace. Anybody use it?
- Thread starter Andy.
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I spent the day playing with it and am pretty impressed. It's a powerful bit of kit and blows our old one out the water. We've had it in house for nearly 8 months and have done absolutely nothing with it as the guy who is responsible has been too busy.......
I'm just a bit lost and hoped somebody here had used it to manage a reasonable sized office/ flex positions etc.
I'm just a bit lost and hoped somebody here had used it to manage a reasonable sized office/ flex positions etc.
Cheers Jimmy.
I was just wanting to confirm that my understanding of how you should use it was correct.
Imaging
- create a basis image without anything installed other than Windows
- I still can't work out how to roll this out to production workstations so that they keep their original name (important for Applications which are linked to NETBIOS name)
Software installation
- I'm not clear why under Inventory you have a Software tab that you can upload the installers to
- I'm planning on using the deployment section for creating all my software installation packages. Zip the package with a .cmd file used to run the installers, move shortcuts and change rights on files/ folders etc. By attaching the packages to labels (linked to LDAP), I can automate the software roll out to the different departments. Is that the correct way of doing it?
- My sys admin was planning on using the scripting section for creating the installation packages with a check at the beginning of each script to check whether the software was already installed. That seems a bit backwards to me, when you have the deployment section.
Basically, I need to create a plan of attack for imaging workstations and rolling out the software to them... I can find a way of doing it, but am not certain that it is the most efficient way!
Any tips welcome!
I was just wanting to confirm that my understanding of how you should use it was correct.
Imaging
- create a basis image without anything installed other than Windows
- I still can't work out how to roll this out to production workstations so that they keep their original name (important for Applications which are linked to NETBIOS name)
Software installation
- I'm not clear why under Inventory you have a Software tab that you can upload the installers to
- I'm planning on using the deployment section for creating all my software installation packages. Zip the package with a .cmd file used to run the installers, move shortcuts and change rights on files/ folders etc. By attaching the packages to labels (linked to LDAP), I can automate the software roll out to the different departments. Is that the correct way of doing it?
- My sys admin was planning on using the scripting section for creating the installation packages with a check at the beginning of each script to check whether the software was already installed. That seems a bit backwards to me, when you have the deployment section.
Basically, I need to create a plan of attack for imaging workstations and rolling out the software to them... I can find a way of doing it, but am not certain that it is the most efficient way!
Any tips welcome!
