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Use PDQ Deploy to message 200 users at once?

Edward Blanchard

March 31, 2015 16:50

Hi,

I want to use the messaging feature in PDQ to send out emergency messages (like in the event of an exchange failure) to a list of 200 computers. In this example, the message would contain step by step information on how to get to the e-mail continuity service and would be rather wordy, so I want it to stay up until the user clicks okay to ensure they have enough time to complete the action. The problem is, (as expected) the package is following the "Concurrent Targets per Deployment" rule, and only sending the message out to 8 PC's at a time. By the time the last user gets the message we're 2 hours in. Is there a way to say "for this package only" ignore concurrent targets rule and just push to all 200 simultaneously?

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Dave
April 29, 2015 17:12

Edward

I do the same exact thing for letting folks know of any Exchange issues. I also have well over 200 PCs but it never takes hours. Depending on how many machines are powered off and slow things down a bit the entire job takes less than 20 minutes. What's your average time on a successful message? Are you just using a batch/script using the msg command?

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Edward Blanchard
April 29, 2015 17:42

Well I've discovered that its partly my fault that it takes so long. It deploys rather quickly, but I had the check box at the bottom (wait for user to click ok" ticked, and so when it hit computers that didn't have a user sitting there the task would remain "running" and prevent the next PC from getting its message. I now have the message set to display for 3600 seconds, and the box for "wait for user.." un ticked and everything seems to be going better.

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