Scripting PDQ Deploy depolyments - Is it possible?
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Is it possible to push deployments in PDQ Deploy remotely using some kind of command line interface like Powershell? Did some basic searching and came up with make shift way to do it using psexec but not a real solution, was hoping I missed something.
If not it seems like an obvious feature request right? We use this tool to automate deployments of applications and setting but how do we automate the tool we use to automate everything else?
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Max, is this what you are looking for?
http://documentation.adminarsenal.com/PDQDeploy/10.2.0.0/deploy-cli.htm
Max, can you provide me a working example of what you are looking to do? Also, what licensing level of PDQ are you using?
I am looking for a Powershell PDQ Deploy module that I can install on a remote admin PC that works much like the CLI option Emily linked to but would allow commands to be executed remotely instead of locally.
A use case for this would be if you have automated and scripted an OS deployment for a server/workstation and were already using PDQ Deploy to automate the application side such as using a deployment package to deploy standard stuff like Java, AV, monitoring tools to a new system. Currently the admin may have a way to run a script with custom variables such as system name and IP from their workstation to deploy the OS but once deployed would still need to manually remote into the deployment server to run a deployment of the application package to that new system.
Another option would be to pre-install the Powershell module into the OS image and have it do a first time run script that will run the application deployment the first time the OS boots after being installed.
It would look something like this:
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#Load PDQ Deploy Module
Import-Module -Name PDQDeply
#Set Variables
$newServers = @("newserver01","newserver02","newserver03")
$deployments = @("Java","AV","Monitoring Tools")
#Connect to deployment server
Connect-PDQServer -Server deployserver01 -User Admin -Password pass
#Deploy package
Deploy-Package -Package $deployments -Targets $newServers
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You can get where I am going with this, if there were some kind of Powershell module for PDQ Deploy you could cut out a few more processes when working towards a fully automated deployment.