• Mass Deployment

    KACE 3.3 & the Mac

    Version 3.3 of the KACE 2000 appliance introduces a few enhancements for the Mac OS X operating system. These include the following: International Keyboards are now supported in the KACE NetBoot environment Hardware inventory is now supported Pre-installation tasks now support error handling Post-installation tasks now have ByHost support Overall, a nice update if you’re invested in the KACE appliances, although the Windows enhancements are far more substantial (understandably), with updates to user profile migration (now hive based), driver harvesting and other features, primarily for the Windows 7 clients in your environments.

  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mass Deployment

    Kace and Mac OS X

    KBOX supports package distribution and inventory management for Mac OS X.  KBOX is more commonly known though, for providing imaging, software distribution and inventory management for Windows environments.  But the imaging is what’s missing in the offering for Mac OS X.  So if you’re planning a KBOX deployment then consider going ahead and also planning a NetInstall, NetRestore or InstaDMG deployment to go right along with it for your Mac environment.