Brigg Angus
Articles
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Recommended Antivirus/Antimalware Exclusions for PDQ Products
Purpose: You wish to exclude PDQ working directories, programs, and other PDQ data from real-time (on-access) scanning by antivirus or antimalware software. Resolution: Real-time scanning performed...
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Deep Freeze, PDQ Inventory, and You: A Useful Guide for the Deep Freeze Administrator
Purpose:You have Deep Freeze installed on computers within your environment and would like to create reports or collection to view the Deep Freeze status of those computers. NOTES: Deep Freeze s...
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PDQ Inventory Registry Scanner: Usage & Examples
Purpose: You wish to use the Registry Scanner to locate registry keys and values on target systems within your network. Resolution: Obtaining useful and accurate results from the Registry Scanner i...
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Conditions Not Met: No Steps Were Able To Run
Purpose:You receive the message, "Conditions not met: No steps were able to run" or similar message indicating that the package was unable to run due to package or step conditions.Resolution:This m...
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PDQ Inventory WMI Scanner: Usage & Examples
Purpose: You wish to scan the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) database for specific information. Resolution: Obtaining useful and accurate information from the WMI scanner is dependent on...
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CPU/GPU Utilization and PDQ Animation Tuning
PDQ Deploy and Inventory will attempt to detect if hardware acceleration is available and set the frame rate for animations accordingly. In certain cases, this is insufficient. You can either disab...
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Create Event Viewer Log Files to Filter PDQ Events
Overview You would like to create a filtered Event Viewer file with specific PDQ information, include Event Viewer files (.EVTX) with your support ticket, or would like to filter PDQ events in Even...
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Test A Deployment Outside of PDQ Deploy (with PowerShell)
Purpose: You wish to check to ensure deployments work outside of the PDQ Deploy program. This can be useful in troubleshooting a myriad of possible issues. Requirements: In order to perform this te...
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The Service Did Not Start Due to a Logon Failure
Purpose: You receive an error, "The service did not start due to a logon failure". The error is also logged as "AdminArsenal.ServiceLogonFailureException" and "AdminArsenal.Services.BackgroundServi...
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Create Packages for Air-gap/Offline (No-Internet Networks)
Purpose: You wish to move PDQ Deploy packages from an internet-enabled network to you offline/air-gap network. Resolution: There are a few ways to do this, but all of them center on moving data fro...