Monica KVH
Not quite a wizard. Systems Support Specialist @ Bedford Industries. PDQ Inventory enthusiast & PDQ Deploy dork. Drinker of bourbons and Scotch whiskies, and petter of corgis. Handler of weird stuff with PowerShell.
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The literal answer to this is yes. You can build a custom package for software you've purchased and properly licensed, and it's a pretty straightforward process. However, if what you're really aski...
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It sounds like the heartbeat is your only trigger for the deployment, correct? If that's the case, you may want to have other triggers enabled, like daily or interval. I've personally found that sc...
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A couple things to check for heartbeat: Make sure your heartbeat is set to an appropriate interval for the number of devices you track in Inventory. It's possible that if you've added a lot of new ...
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5000 devices is going to require about a 21-minute minimum heartbeat (1260 seconds) to be able to catch them all in the first place, if I'm remembering the timing for heartbeats correctly. 600 seco...
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Great to hear! :)
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Try the add-content cmdlet. http://www.adminarsenal.com/powershell/Add-Content/
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If all you're looking for is a way to see if they're online or not, you may want to change your heartbeat setting to something under the default of 300 seconds... if you don't have so many devices ...
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Seconding what Colby said but also pitching in my two cents: PDQ Deploy is definitely worth it to manage them once you've solved how PDQ can reach them all. I'm a software person and not a network ...
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Depending on the apps, why not just include them in the image? FOG is really handy for quickly updating and deploying images. We've pushed out 130+GB images in 5-6 minutes using FOG, though updatin...
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I would experiment with a couple of different BIOS settings. Check to see if fast boot is enabled. If it is, disable it. I'm not sure how much time it would really add, though. After that, you coul...