Paperless-ngx vs KACE

KACE runs two tracks in one feed: the on-prem SMA appliance, which lands a substantive release every few months, and KACE Cloud, the MDM/UEM SaaS that drips small enrollment and configuration fixes between monthly feature drops. A third stream — the patch catalog — publishes on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday clock and accounts for much of the entry volume without changing the product. SMA 15.1 is the real news in this window: native Windows ARM64 agent support, Windows 11 24H2 UUP feature updates, mandatory HTTPS-only appliance access, and OAuth 2.0 for outbound Microsoft 365 mail.

The direction is compatibility and hardening rather than new capability. Every headline item in 15.1 tracks a Microsoft platform move — ARM64 silicon, the UUP update delivery model, the basic-auth sunset — and HTTPS-only enforcement converts a configuration option into an upgrade prerequisite. On the Cloud side the work is skewing toward Windows parity (device verification, custom inventory reporting) after a long stretch of Apple and Android enrollment plumbing. Absent from the whole window: any agentic or AI-assisted layer over the endpoint estate.

Expect the next SMA point release to continue the Microsoft-tracking pattern — further UUP and ARM64 coverage plus more auth modernization — and KACE Cloud to keep closing Windows management gaps against its more mature Apple and Android support.