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Mike commented, Bump from me too. Just today I'm looking to move from WSUS to PDQ for Windows Updates. But if I still have to have WSUS around for .Net, then I might as well use it for Windows Updates as well to...
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Mike created a post, How do you handle Windows Updates? PDQ? WSUS? Both? Neither?
Howdy, I know there are lots of ways to hand patching a bunch of servers, with or without PDQ, and I"m just wondering what everyone does. The way we do things seems to work pretty well, but I'm al...
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Mike commented, Thanks for the ideas. Based on something I saw online, I ended up creating a new Package called Random Delay that just has a single Powershell line of: Start-Sleep -seconds (1..600|get-random). I...
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Mike created a post, Concurrent deployment limit for specific package?
Is there any way to set a concurrent deployment limit for a specific package? Or maybe some other way to stagger a deploy? I have a package that tells all our servers to go check for updates and t...
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Mike created a post, Can I automatically deploy things when a computer is detected for the first time?
Hi, When we spin up a new machine, there are some basic things we push out to each computer. Is there any way that when PDQ Inventory does a sync with AD, and it finds a new computer, that it coul...
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Mike commented, My specific example was for Cluster Aware Updating. I found a work around by having a two step deployment CMD - start clusterupdateui.exe <clustername> PS - Invoke-CauRun -ClusterName blahblah se...
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Mike created a post, If I move collections around does that break Deployment Schedules?
Howdy, I have schedules setup in Deploy that point to collections in Inventory. I did some rearranging of my collections and now they aren't in the same structure they were before. I went into De...
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Mike commented, Thanks. I was actually able to get it working by using that Start command. I did: Step 1: Start blahblah.exeStep 2: Powershell command Seems to work perfectly.
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Mike created a post, Can I run two commands simultaneously?
I have a deployment package that runs one PowerShell command and one CMD command. The commands are independent of each other and I want to know if I can run the second command while the first comm...
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Mike created a post, Can I select multiple OUs when setting up AD Sync?
HI, I'm trying to add a bunch of OUs into my AD Sync setup. We have nested OUs where I can only add some of them but don't want others so I have to pick each one manually. In the PDQ Inventory in...