Module Renamed and Divided

Kaseya User State Management has been divided into two separate applications: Kaseya Desktop Policy and Kaseya Desktop Migration. Each can be purchased and installed separately. When both are installed they display as a single combined module known as Kaseya Desktop Policy and Migration (KDPM).

Independent Power Audit

The independent power audit is scheduled as part of the standard audit and collects power settings from all managed machines including those without the User State Management client installed. Details of power settings and comparative cost savings for all machines are available via the Power Savings Report on the Reports page. A new checkbox, Include All Machines, displays on the Power Savings Report. If checked, it includes the independent power audit results for all Windows 2003 and Windows XP machines without KUSM installed along with the results from machines with KUSM installed. Does not include Windows 2000 or Vista machines.

Status

New dashboard views to the Status page:

Policy Deployment at a Glance

Current State

A new function called Current Status displays the following Kaseya Desktop Policy details about each machine that has the KUSM client installed.

• For each user logon, the user groups, mapped drives and printers defined for that user
• For each machine, the share names and local file path

Wake On LAN

The Wake on LAN feature allows a machine that is offline because it has been powered down (sleeping, hibernating or powered down with power to the network card) to be brought back online at a particular time. This is achieved by having a controller machine (auto assigned by the WOL feature) send out an industry standard packet (magic packet) on the network with a specially encoded message with unique identifiers for each machine to be woken. There are 2 prerequisites to be able to take advantage of the WOL feature:

• Each machine to be woken must enable the Wake on LAN feature in the PC motherboard’s BIOS.
• There must be at least one machine online on a given LAN to act as the controller to send out the ‘magic packets’.

Alerts

Options are now available to set Alerts for operation success and failure within Kaseya Desktop Policy. Alerts are used to trigger an action or a notification:

• Create Alarm
• Create Ticket
• Run a script
• Send Email

Alerts and the action to take are configured on a new Alerts page. Alerts are available for:

• Power Policy
• Power Policy Apply Success/Failure
• Mapped Drives
• Mapped Drive Policy Apply Success/Failure
• Printers
• Printer Policy Apply Success/Failure
• Desktop Standard
• Create Desktop Standard Success/Failure
• Apply Desktop Standard Success/Failure
• WOL
• Wake on LAN Succcess/Failure

Migration Readiness

The Migration Readiness page is an interactive reference page that provides a detailed summary end point readiness for upgrades to Windows 7 or other operating systems. Using audit information visual comparisons are made against minimum system requirements for:

• CPU
• Hard disk
• RAM

A cost summary is provided to estimate the total upgrade cost for systems.