sean johnson
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Did something change in how deploy writes to the DB?
As a kind of DB performance test after updating, I usually select a range or all past deployments and hit delete to see how long it takes to chug through removing them. Typically this takes a momen...
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Brainstorming workarounds to PDQ agent removal
The most useful feature of the PDQ agent for us is that it live updates Current User whenever a change occurs. This has made finding our users when they call tremendously faster (what's your Name? ...
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Heads up on Firefox ESR 60.6.1
Firefox ESR 60.6.1 / Normal 66.0.3 breaks most addons. If these are important to you or your environment, don't deploy it. The fix for it is out and should hit PDQ package library whenever they do ...
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Odd CPU load with PDQ Deploy console
When running in client mode PDQ deploy seems to take up quite a bit of CPU usage(~20% 6th gen i7 6700 ), but only when not minimized. The even more curious bit is that the System process goes up wi...
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Weird happenings with cloned systems
We made the mistake of cloning non syspreped drives with the PDQ agent already installed and we are seeing some weirdness. I assume they share the same PDQ Agent ID and are cross reporting to othe...
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PDQ Inventory 16 Beta2/3 so far
Just some ramblings on the current beta. Pressing F5 seems to wipe out any applied filters now. The agent seems to sporadically go into an Unavailable state and become unresponsive after a reboot....
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PDQ Deploy 15 R4 - Brutally slow when going through all deployments
PDQ deploy seems to grind to a halt when going through our previous deployments. I was unable to select more than 2 or 3 deployments that contain 600 and up clients without the window crashing. Try...
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PDQ Inventory Service randomly stopping
I'm going through my steps trying to point the finger at just what is going wrong. Settup: PDQ Inventory 15.1 Central Server mode with 6 console users and ~800 monitored machines (server 2012R2 th...
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Credential separation for console users
I vaguely remember hearing about credentials becoming unique to console users at some point. Is this still being planned or is there a better way to implement the following. With 6 console users I ...