Deploy when new clients pop-up
Hello,
Fist of all I want to say great products. Just started using PDQ Deploy and Inventory and everything is exactly like I wanted to be. Since I just started I have a few questions, and today I will start with number one.
Is there a possibility for a package or multiple packages for that matter to start deploying automatically when a new client is added in the Target area or in the PDQ Inventory collection? Off course I prefer collection, but either way works. The clients are a mixed of domain joined, cross-forest and workgroup, but as long as DNS is in place I don't think it matters to much for PDQ.
So let's say I have a collection with some clients in it. After a while I manually or dynamically add a few more. I want the package(s) to automatically start deploying on these new clients. What I am trying to achieve is more like a baseline deployment.
Thanks in advance,
Adrian
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There's a few ways you can do this. We have a collection of computers that are in the OU where new computers get placed (Collection Filter: Computer > ADPath > Contains > OU Name). Then we run a schedule hourly with all the packages new computers need to get. You can find tune a collection a few different ways as well as how aggressive the schedule runs.
PDQ also has a blog on integrating with MDT if you want to go that route.
https://www.pdq.com/blog/mdt-imaging-in-pdq-deploy/#get-started-using-mdt-imaging-in-pdq-deploy
We do something similar. I just have a schedule setup with all the packages and the Target is a specific OU in AD where newly imaged machines are placed.
And when the packages get installed you go and manually move those computers to their respective OUs.
Got it. I thought there was a different process for this.
Thanks a lot for the help,
That's correct.
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