Set up the deployment environment You can set up your appliance network connection between the target devices to PXE boot from the target devices to the appliance, download the required tools to build your KACE Boot Environment (KBE), and load the source media and user profiles to the appliance. 1. Set up an administrator device. 2. Create a network connection between the target devices and the appliance using a DHCP server to direct PXE boot requests from the target device to the appliance. See Enable the on-board DHCP server. a. Use the built-in appliance DHCP server if there is no existing DHCP server on your network, and if you are using the appliance in a closed lab environment. b. Use your existing DHCP server if the appliance is on a corporate network. 3. Download the Media Manager. See Download and install the KACE Media Manager. a. Download and install the Windows ADK required to create a KACE Boot Environment using the Media Manager. See Download and install Windows ADK. b. Upload the OS source media to the Media Manager. See Upload files using the KACE Media Manager. 4. Capture user profiles from a device, upload the profiles to the appliance to migrate the profiles to target devices. See Upload USMT software from the appliance. Prepare and capture the image from the device. See Capture system images.
You can set up your appliance network connection between the target devices to PXE boot from the target devices to the appliance, download the required tools to build your KACE Boot Environment (KBE), and load the source media and user profiles to the appliance.