Management and Configuration of WinPE Environments for QUEST SDA

Creating and managing WinPE environments for QUEST SDA

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Samba Password

On the Appliance, configure the Samba password in the “General Settings” in the “Control Panel”.

WARNING: Reinstall with each new version or patch of the SDA.

For a Windows 10 1511 deployment, it is imperative to install Windows ADK 10 1511 on your machine.

Then copy the content (remove old drivers if present) to:
- \\k2000\drivers\kbe_windows_x64
- \\k2000\drivers\kbe_windows_x86

If WinPE cannot map to KACE, confirm the issue by running IPCONFIG.

If WinPE cannot see the hard drives

To check, run diskpart, then the command List Disk. If the disks are not visible, this indicates a driver issue.

To “validate” the driver in the WinPE environment, you can manually load it with the drvload command from the WinPE environment.

Once the driver is loaded, if the issue is resolved, you can copy the driver to the Appliance and regenerate the WinPE images.

This operation should be performed when adding new WinPE drivers (or if no WinPE 10 environment is present).

Launch “K2000 Media Manager”
Enter the Appliance name and Samba password
In the “Create a K2000 boot environment” tab
Enter the name of the WinPE environment
Select the architecture
Ensure the path matches the installed Windows ADK (default: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10)
Then validate

If no environment is present on your KACE Appliance, you need to set at least one default WinPE environment.