Mike
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Two problems I have with scheduled deployments (long, sorry) ;)
Hi, I posted this to Reddit but am posting it here as well since it's potentially a different audience. :) I am using the Auto-Download feature combined with the provided Device Collections to t...
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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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Can I run a Powershell Command and have it show me the Powershell Window so I can monitor it?
Howdy, I use Cluster Aware Updating to patch a bunch of clusters in our environment. I normally open the CAU program, pick the cluster, go through the screens, and start it going. I can then moni...
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How can I do an OR statement using Ends With?
Howdy, I've been away from PDQ for a bit and am a bit rusty. I see there is an option to create a Dynamic Collection using "Ends With" which I don't remember being there in the past. Anyway, how ...
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Master schedule to update multiple outdated software packages?
Howdy, I want to look into having PDQ be able to push out updates to software (Chrome, Firefox, Flash, etc) to all our machines. I know that I can create a schedule for Chrome and a schedule for F...