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PDQ Inventory details (RAM, H-Drive, CPU, Database)

Jack Dee

April 15, 2015 15:40

We're looking to distribute Office 2013 to 2000+ target machines. Our console machine is on server - Windows Server 2012 R2.

What RAM is needed/recommended? What H-Drive size is needed? What database size is needed? And is the CPU usage high?

Any help would be appreciated.

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mmuni
April 17, 2015 12:37

I deploy from a Win7 Virtual Machine on a MacBook Air (1.4 Ghz Intel Core i5, and 4GB RAM) I give my VM 1.5GB Ram and 2 CPU cores. I have the package files stored on a local Windows 2008 Server and set the packages to PULL from the 2008 server rather than PUSHING the package files from my MacBook.

Hopefully this gives you an idea. With these low specs PDQ performs pretty well and is rather quick if you make sure to disable WOL option in Preferences so that it doesn't hang waiting for the computers to come online. Any computers that are not online at the time will be added to the retry queue anyways and will deploy once they come online.

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mmuni
April 17, 2015 12:39

P. S. I deploy to a little over 1,500 machines.

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