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KACE 1000 Pilot

Hello,

I am new to KACE and have submitted a number of posts in the few weeks.  We are about to open our pilot to our customers in two days.  We have spent the last few weeks training, importing and configuring KACE. ITNinja has been a great resource for meeting our milestones in the pilot.

Overview of our customer community:

  • Pilot group: 2,000 AD user
  • Companywide will be 5,500 users
  • 10 divisions
  • 60+ locations around the world

Any tips from those who have deployed KACE in a large enterprise setting is greatly welcome.

Thanks!


Comments

  • This might be better asked in a question. You might get more responses. http://www.itninja.com/question/new

    I would definitely suggest replication shares for the remote sites. Depending on the size at each site you could have a PC sitting in a closet just there for replication. Although server OS is recommended, I've had some running off of Win 7 machines at the sites that had 5-10 machines. - dugullett 11 years ago
  • Thanks for the advice. Would you recommend more than one replication share for a single location with 500 or more PCs? How many PCs can one replication share manage? I will re-post in the questions area. - Jalvey74 11 years ago
    • I would just say one with a server OS. That way you are not limited to connections. Just make sure you allow for expansion. Will you be using patching? Make sure it has plenty of HDD space. We are currently using one for about 7,000 machines with no problem. - dugullett 11 years ago
  • Wow - you are patching 7,000 Machines. Nice to know we will have room to grow. We are still comparing the pros/cons of moving from MS WSUS to KACE for patching. We do want to use it for software deployment. - Jalvey74 11 years ago
    • I moved off of WSUS at my last job. We patched around 15,000 machines with about 43 rep shares. I was fortunate enough to be able to spin up a VM at the majority of those sites with a server OS. The rep shares helped with keeping patches/software installers local so that machines did not have to pull from the K1000.

      At some of our smaller offices I used some older machines with large hard drives, and Windows 7. Once I had them setup I disconnected the monitor/keyboard, and let it sit in a closet. The majority of the time these smaller offices only had 5-10 machines since Win 7 limits connections to 10. I did enable failover just in case an 11th ever tried to sneak in.

      I like having everything under one pane to see everything about the machine I need to know without moving through multiple interfaces.

      I'm assuming you've already created labels for your different sites? - dugullett 11 years ago
  • Yes - We created labels based on IP ranges since many of our staff travels to other locations or might be out in the field. Each site has a unique IP range. Also created smart labels based on the prefix of our computer names. Each division uses a unique 2-3 letter prefix. This was more for reporting purposes and not patch management. - Jalvey74 11 years ago
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