Tuesday- Konference
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Lab
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| Time |
Topic |
Self Paced Labs (Win & Mac) |
Genius Bar |
| 7:00am |
Registration Opens |
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| 8:00am |
Welcome and Intros |
| 8:30am |
Keynote: General Manager, Dell Client Systems Management and Special Guest Speaker
Rob Meinhardt, General Manager of Dell KACE, will discuss the trends and future potential of software and appliance-based solutions across systems management and the enterprise. Join us to find out!
Peter Sagal, Host of Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me! has become one of the most popular shows on public radio, heard by two and half million listeners a week, on 450 public radio stations nationwide and via a popular podcast. The hour-long show has captivated news junkies nation-wide. You won't want to miss this relevant keynote, designed to entertain and inform.
Keynote: General Manager, Dell Client Systems Management and Special Guest Speaker
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| 9:00am |
| 10:00am |
Break |
KACE Genius Bar
The Genius Bar is open most of the User Konference and is staffed with Dell KACE subject matter experts from Engineering, Technical Support and Systems Engineering. Bring your technical questions and meet the product experts from Dell KACE. Stop on by.
KACE Genius Bar |
| 10:15am |
Asset Management - Software License Compliance and Governance
The K1000 Management Appliance includes many advanced features for automating asset management and license compliance. This sessions will take you from top to bottom of license compliance and governance using the K1000.
Asset Management - Software License Compliance and Governance |
Labs
- Third Party Reporting
We will demonstrate how to connect to the KBX, create table relationships and write with relationships and write reports with 3rd party software. The labs will focus on these topics utilizing Microsoft Access.
- Software Distribution
From beginner to expert, this session has something for everyone to learn about software distribution (managed installations). Drop in any time the lab is open and start with the skill level at which you feel most comfortable. The self-paced classrooms have multiple exercises and are open to all attendees. These sessions are first-come, first-serve and may have seats opening up at any time throughout the scheduled lab time. Self-paced rooms are instructor-assisted.
- K1000 Service Desk
Whether you're setting up your new service desk, or you'd like to improve upon what you already have, from beginner to expert, this session has something for you to learn. Drop in any time the lab is open and start with whichever skill level you feel most comfortable. The self-paced classrooms have multiple exercises and are open to all attendees. These sessions are first-come, first-serve and may have seats opening up at any time throughout the scheduled lab time. Self-paced rooms are instructor-assisted.
- Patching
Whether you are new to patching, new to K1000 patching, or a total expert, the self-paced patching lab has a track to fit your needs. Drop in any time the lab is open and start with whichever skill level you feel most comfortable. The self-paced classrooms have multiple exercises and are open to all attendees. These sessions are first-come, first-serve and may have seats opening up at any time throughout the scheduled lab time. Self-paced rooms are instructor-assisted.
- eKcellence Packs
This instructor-led course will demonstrate some of the new packages that are available for your K1000/K2000 environments as part of an expanded training portfolio, and even a few packages you can use when you get home! The eKcellence Pack series from the Dell KACE JumpStart team is designed to add even more value to your K1000 and K2000 purchase by using known best practices and commonly seen needs from thousands of customers to begin configuring various portions of the appliance. The eKcellence packs are delivered by certified trainers and include training around the topic, as well as some light configuration from prescribed options. Instructor-led courses are registration-only and have limited seating. Most instructor-led sessions will be offered more than once during the Konference.
- Intel
Intel vPro delivers powerful capabilities to manage, repair and re-image remote clients, regardless of the OS or machine state.Come to the Intel room for hands on session to learn about the experience using Dell KACE systems management tools and Dell's exclusive enhancements to vPro to manage remote machines regardless of OS, power state or health of the machines. In this session and hands-on lab, you will learn about and experience:
- Discovering and reporting on your vPro capable machines
- Activating vPro with the K1000
- Perform remote client configuration unique to Dell hardware
- Configure power profile
- Configure the boot order
- Configure the BIOS settings
- Configure passwords*
- Perform remote operations like
- Perform KVM sessions
- Remotely manage power settings
- Generate reports for Hardware Inventory, Battery information, Out-of-band Manageability, and system provisioned
- Bomgar
Experience the Bomgar Box and KACE K1000 working together in a completely integrated environment. Remote control your managed systems and invite customers to start Bomgar sessions from Service Desk tickets. Collaborate with multiple technicians sharing control of a remote system. Explore Bomgar features such as canned scripts, click-to-chat, Bomgar Buttons, and Jump Clients.
- Third Party Reporting
- Software Distribution
- K1000 Service Desk
- Patching
- eKcellence Packs
- Intel
- Bomgar
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K2000 Deployment Appliance 101
Learn how the K2000 Deployment Appliance revolutionizes systems deployment by optimizing the entire systems deployment lifecycle. This interactive session will cover key features of the K2000 such as K-imaging, scripted installation and remote recovery.
K2000 Deployment Appliance 101
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Improving End-User Support with the K1000 Service Desk
Attend this session to learn key K1000 service desk best practices. Learn how to use the K1000 to customize tickets and queues, set up parent/child ticket relationships, set up and take advantage of the service desk process capabilities.
Improving End-User Support with the K1000 Service Desk
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Remote Site Management for your K series appliances
Managing a number of remote sites can be a daunting challenge. In this session we'll show you how to improve your remote site management with K Series Appliances.
Remote Site Management For Your K Series Appliances
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Dell Software Track: Secureworks
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| 11:15am |
Keynote: Bomgar Chief Strategy Officer Nathan McNeil |
| 12:00pm |
Lunch with Special Guest |
| 1:00pm |
Maximizing Reporting in K1000 5.4
The 5.4 version of K1000 adds more power to the reporting wizard. Join us to learn how to maximize the new interface.
Maximizing Reporting in K1000 5.4 |
Labs
- Mac Software Distribution
Mac software installations differ from Windows; New to Macs? New to managing them? Join us for this informative instructor-led hands-on class for how to distribute software to the Macintosh environment. Instructor-led courses are registration-only and have limited seating. Most instructor-led sessions will be offered more than once during the Konference.
- Software Distribution
From beginner to expert, this session has something for you to learn about software distribution (managed installations). Drop in any time the lab is open and start with whichever skill level you feel most comfortable. The self-paced classrooms have multiple exercises and are open to all attendees. These sessions are first-come, first-serve and may have seats opening up at any time throughout the scheduled lab time. Self-paced rooms are instructor-assisted.
- K1000 Service Desk
Whether you're setting up your new service desk, or you'd like to improve upon what you already have, from beginner to expert, this session has something for you to learn. Drop in any time the lab is open and start with whichever skill level you feel most comfortable. The self-paced classrooms have multiple exercises and are open to all attendees. These sessions are first-come, first-serve and may have seats opening up at any time throughout the scheduled lab time. Self-paced rooms are instructor-assisted.
- Patching
Whether you are new to patching, new to K1000 patching, or a total expert, the self-paced patching lab has a track to fit your needs. Drop in any time the lab is open and start with whichever skill level you feel most comfortable. The self-paced classrooms have multiple exercises and are open to all attendees. These sessions are first-come, first-serve and may have seats opening up at any time throughout the scheduled lab time. Self-paced rooms are instructor-assisted.
- Assets
Get hands on with tips and tricks for designing your asset management system. Physical devices, software license compliance, and much more are included in this self-paced asset management lab. Drop in any time the lab is open and start with whichever skill level you feel most comfortable. The self-paced classrooms have multiple exercises and are open to all attendees. These sessions are first-come, first-serve and may have seats opening up at any time throughout the scheduled lab time. Self-paced rooms are Instructor-assisted.
- Intel
Intel vPro delivers powerful capabilities to manage, repair and re-image remote clients, regardless of the OS or machine state.Come to the Intel room for hands on session to learn about the experience using Dell KACE systems management tools and Dell's exclusive enhancements to vPro to manage remote machines regardless of OS, power state or health of the machines. In this session and hands-on lab, you will learn about and experience:
- Discovering and reporting on your vPro capable machines
- Activating vPro with the K1000
- Perform remote client configuration unique to Dell hardware
- Configure power profile
- Configure the boot order
- Configure the BIOS settings
- Configure passwords*
- Perform remote operations like
- Perform KVM sessions
- Remotely manage power settings
- Generate reports for Hardware Inventory, Battery information, Out-of-band Manageability, and system provisioned
- Bomgar
Experience the Bomgar Box and KACE K1000 working together in a completely integrated environment. Remote control your managed systems and invite customers to start Bomgar sessions from Service Desk tickets. Collaborate with multiple technicians sharing control of a remote system. Explore Bomgar features such as canned scripts, click-to-chat, Bomgar Buttons, and Jump Clients.
- Mac Software Distribution
- Software Distribution
- K1000 Service Desk
- Patching
- Assets
- Intel
- Bomgar
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K2000: Post-Install Troubleshooting
Once the OS is deployed, your post-install tasks begin to customize the deployment for your environment. Figuring out what's gone wrong at that stage can be a challenge. Learn a number of strategies that can help your tasks succeed.
K2000: Post-Install Troubleshooting |
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Getting the Most from Asset Management
The asset management capabilities of the K1000 are flexible as well as powerful. Join this session to see how extensible you can make it with applications outside of license compliance.
Getting the Most from Asset Management |
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K1000 Advanced Topics
Our engineers will help you understand what's under the covers of your K1000 Appliance and dig into some advanced topics so that you to can be a K1000 whisperer.
K1000 Advanced Topics |
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Dell Software Track: Quest
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Customer Case Study: Locks Law Firm and the K1000
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| 2:00pm |
Birds of a Feather Sessions
- K1000 and Service Desk Management Appliance
- Using SQL to create custom reports and ticker rules — John Verbosky
- LDAP integration tips
- ITNinja community
- Windows installations: MSIs, MSTs and Admin install points
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Labs
- Software Distribution
From beginner to expert, this session has something for you to learn about software distribution (managed installations). Drop in any time the lab is open and start with whichever skill level you feel most comfortable. The self-paced classrooms have multiple exercises and are open to all attendees. These sessions are first-come, first-serve and may have seats opening up at any time throughout the scheduled lab time. Self-paced rooms are instructor-assisted.
- K1000 Service Desk
Whether you're setting up your new service desk, or you'd like to improve upon what you already have, from beginner to expert, this session has something for you to learn. Drop in any time the lab is open and start with whichever skill level you feel most comfortable. The self-paced classrooms have multiple exercises and are open to all attendees. These sessions are first-come, first-serve and may have seats opening up at any time throughout the scheduled lab time. Self-paced rooms are instructor-assisted.
- Patching
Whether you are new to patching, new to K1000 patching, or a total expert, the self-paced patching lab has a track to fit your needs. Drop in any time the lab is open and start with whichever skill level you feel comfortable. The self-paced classrooms have multiple exercises and are open to all attendees. These sessions are first-come, first-serve and may have seats opening up at any time throughout the scheduled lab time. Self-paced rooms are instructor-assisted.
- Assets
Get hands on with tips and tricks for designing your asset management system. Physical devices, software license compliance, and much more are included in this self-paced asset management lab. Drop in any time the lab is open and start with whichever skill level you feel most comfortable. The self-paced classrooms have multiple exercises and are open to all attendees. These sessions are first-come, first-serve and may have seats opening up at any time throughout the scheduled lab time. Self-paced rooms are instructor-assisted.
- Bomgar
Experience the Bomgar Box and KACE K1000 working together in a completely integrated environment. Remote control your managed systems and invite customers to start Bomgar sessions from Service Desk tickets. Collaborate with multiple technicians sharing control of a remote system. Explore Bomgar features such as canned scripts, click-to-chat, Bomgar Buttons, and Jump Clients.
- Software Distribution
- K1000 Service Desk
- Patching
- Assets
- Bomgar
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Dell Software Track: SonicWall
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| 2:45pm |
Break |
| 3:00pm |
K2000- KACE Native Imaging and Optimizing for Large Environments
Large scale imaging has its own challenges pushing terabytes of data over the network. In this session, learn how to exercise the native imaging options of the K2000 to optimize your large deployments.
K2000 - KACE Native Imaging and Optimizing for Large Environments |
Labs
- Mac Imaging
This instructor-led lab will let you get hands on with tips and tricks for imaging your Mac environment. These sessions include best practices, basics for Mac imaging, Netboot Environments, and more. Instructor led courses are registration-only and have limited seating. Most instructor-led sessions will be offered more than once during the Konference.
- SQL Reporting
We will connect to the database, view tables, discuss table relationships, discover the basics of the MySQL query and develop queries to gather information from both single and multiple table scenarios.
- K1000 Service Desk
Whether you're setting up your new service desk, or you'd like to improve upon what you already have, from beginner to expert, this session has something for you to learn. Drop in any time the lab is open and start with whichever skill level you feel most comfortable. The self-paced classrooms have multiple exercises and are open to all attendees. These sessions are first-come, first-serve and may have seats opening up at any time throughout the scheduled lab time. Self-paced rooms are instructor-assisted.
- Patching
Whether you are new to patching, new to K1000 patching, or a total expert, the self-paced patching lab has a track to fit your needs. Drop in any time the lab is open and start with whichever skill level you feel most comfortable. The self-paced classrooms have multiple exercises and are open to all attendees. These sessions are first-come, first-serve and may have seats opening up at any time throughout the scheduled lab time. Self-paced rooms are instructor-assisted.
- Scripted Installs
This hands on lab for building K2000 scripted installations will help you get comfortable from start to finish. With multiple offerings ranging from basics to advanced options and tools, there's a choice for every skill level. Drop in any time the lab is open and start with whichever skill level you feel most comfortable. The self-paced classrooms have multiple exercises and are open to all attendees. These sessions are first-come, first-serve and may have seats opening up at any time throughout the scheduled lab time. Self-paced rooms are instructor-assisted.
- Intel
Intel vPro delivers powerful capabilities to manage, repair and re-image remote clients, regardless of the OS or machine state.Come to the Intel room for hands on session to learn about the experience using Dell KACE systems management tools and Dell's exclusive enhancements to vPro to manage remote machines regardless of OS, power state or health of the machines. In this session and hands-on lab, you will learn about and experience:
- Discovering and reporting on your vPro capable machines
- Activating vPro with the K1000
- Perform remote client configuration unique to Dell hardware
- Configure power profile
- Configure the boot order
- Configure the BIOS settings
- Configure passwords*
- Perform remote operations like
- Perform KVM sessions
- Remotely manage power settings
- Generate reports for Hardware Inventory, Battery information, Out-of-band Manageability, and system provisioned
- Bomgar
Experience the Bomgar Box and KACE K1000 working together in a completely integrated environment. Remote control your managed systems and invite customers to start Bomgar sessions from Service Desk tickets. Collaborate with multiple technicians sharing control of a remote system. Explore Bomgar features such as canned scripts, click-to-chat, Bomgar Buttons, and Jump Clients.
- Mac Imaging
- SQL Reporting
- K1000 Service Desk
- Patching
- Scripted Installs
- Intel
- Bomgar
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Enhanced Security and Compliance with Your K1000
The K1000 Management Appliance includes a number of features to help administrators address end-point security needs. Learn how to improve end-point security through OVAL and SCAP scans, patching, and security and configuration management.
Enhanced Security and Compliance with Your K1000 |
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Unleash the Power of Smart Labels
Successfully managing multiple groups of employees, workstations, servers and digital assets can seem like a daunting task. Join us to uncover the power of smart labels to make your life easier.
Unleash the Power of Smart Labels |
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Make It Your Own: the K1000 Service Desk
Every organization wants to perfectly match their service desk capabilities to their needs. Join our engineers as they show some advanced methods for customizing the K1000 service desk.
Make It Your Own: the K1000 Service Desk |
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Dell Software Track: Open Manage Essentials
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| 4:00pm |
Birds of a Feather Sessions
- K3000 Mobile Management Appliance
- K2000 Deployment Appliance
- DataBOND peer-to-peer back up and recovery
- Managing Linux with KACE
- vWorkspace — affordable desktop virtualization
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Labs
- Mac Imaging
This instructor-led lab will let you get hands on with tips and tricks for imaging your Mac environment. These sessions include best practices, basics for Mac imaging, Netboot Environments, and more. Instructor led courses are registration-only and have limited seating. Most instructor-led sessions will be offered more than once during the Konference.
- Software Distribution
From beginner to expert, this session has something for you to learn about software distribution (managed installations). Drop in any time the lab is open and start with whichever skill level you feel most comfortable. The self-paced classrooms have multiple exercises and are open to all attendees. These sessions are first-come, first-serve and may have seats opening up at any time throughout the scheduled lab time. Self-paced rooms are instructor-assisted.
- K1000 Service Desk
Whether you're setting up your new service desk, or you'd like to improve upon what you already have, from beginner to expert, this session has something for you to learn. Drop in any time the lab is open and start with whichever skill level you feel most comfortable. The self-paced classrooms have multiple exercises and are open to all attendees. These sessions are first-come, first-serve and may have seats opening up at any time throughout the scheduled lab time. Self-paced rooms are instructor-assisted.
- Patching
Whether you are new to patching, new to K1000 patching, or a total expert, the self-paced patching lab has a track to fit your needs. Drop in any time the lab is open and start with whichever skill level you feel comfortable. The self-paced classrooms have multiple exercises and are open to all attendees. These sessions are first-come, first-serve and may have seats opening up at any time throughout the scheduled lab time. Self-paced rooms are instructor-assisted.
- Scripted Installs
This hands on lab for building K2000 scripted installations will help you get comfortable from start to finish. With multiple offerings ranging from basics to advanced options and tools, there's a choice for every skill level. Drop in any time the lab is open and start with whichever skill level you feel comfortable. The self-paced classrooms have multiple exercises and are open to all attendees. These sessions are first-come, first-serve and may have seats opening up at any time throughout the scheduled lab time. Self-paced rooms are instructor-assisted.
- Bomgar
Experience the Bomgar Box and KACE K1000 working together in a completely integrated environment. Remote control your managed systems and invite customers to start Bomgar sessions from Service Desk tickets. Collaborate with multiple technicians sharing control of a remote system. Explore Bomgar features such as canned scripts, click-to-chat, Bomgar Buttons, and Jump Clients.
- Mac Imaging
- Software Distribution
- K1000 Service Desk
- Patching
- Scripted Installs
- Bomgar
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Customer Case Study: PING and Win7 Migration
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Dell Software Track: AppAssure
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| 4:45pm |
Wrap Up and End of Day 1 |
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| 5:30pm |
Registration Closes |
| 6:00pm |
Dell World at Austin City Limits
Join Dell KACE Konference attendees and the Dell World folks for an evening of fun, food and music at Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater! Admission is part of your Konference attendance fees.
Dell World at Austin City Limits |