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Best-Practice? Using PDQ across international sites
Hello, We have 3 sites spread across the globe, connected via VPN, with the PDQ server in the main HQ. Connectively to the remote sites is pretty poor as they are so far away, so characterised by h...
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PDQ deploy & Webhooks
Hi, I used visualping to monitor half a dozen webpages for vendors release notes. When a new version of an application is updated, the webpage gets updated, but ususlly the download link remains th...
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[SOLVED] Install Date & Time: all apps the same
[PDQ Inventory 18.1.0.0 Enterprise Mode] Hello Apologies if this has been asked already, but I could not find the answer from searching. I have a weekly report emailed to me showing which applicati...
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Application not showing in PDQ (nor Control Panel)
Hi, We use Ansys (https://www.ansys.com/en-gb a massive engineering application ~25GB in size). This doesn't show up in PDQ, nor the Windows Control Panel. It installs lots of Start Menu shortcuts...
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multiple installations of the same app
Hi, PDQ reports that different versions of the same application are installed. However, in Windows Control Panel, it shows just the latest version. This is only happening to Preform as far as I'm...
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Managaging baselines: suggestions?
[Inventory & Deploy, Enterprise 18.1] Hi, I have a package I call 'Baseline' which has lots of nested packages added to it (7-Zip, C++ runtimes, VLC, Acrobat Reader, etc). When a new PC is added to...
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[Solved] File conditions: hidden files?
[PDQ Deploy 17.2.0.0 Enterprise] Hi, I have a simple 1-step Deploy task, to run command "powercfg.exe /h off" (turn off Windows hibernation). I have a file condition set to My task fails when I ta...
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PDQ Agent preventing Windows Monthly Rollup
Hi, I experienced an issue on a laptop recently, which has the PDQ agent installed. Microsoft's Monthly rollups had been failing to install each month for around 4 months and I finally wanted to re...
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Feature Requests: Notify when online, bundle a package for offline deployment
Hi, Inventory: Alert when a computer becomes 'online' (with a sub option for whether they are internal or external). Perhaps this is already possible using other methods, but it would be nice to be...
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[SOLVED] PDQ inventory: Visual C++ Collections - what are "old and latest"?
Hello. Browsing through the built-in Microsoft Visual C++ collections, I see (under each bitness) 4 collections; Why have "(old and latest)"? And when might it be useful to target deployments to t...