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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Loading all deployments can slow down when you have a lot of old deployments in the list. An easier way to tackle this might be to set up a cleanup timer, which will delete deployment records when ...
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Assuming your in-house apps are packaged as .exe or .msi, you should be able to deploy them with PDQ Deploy with relative ease (just probably have silent parameters ready for use with .exes). Howev...
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Ahh!! Here comes Colby with something super fancy for Enterprise! :) I never noticed that before. That should solve the biggest of the problems.
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Deploy won't have back-versions unless you downloaded them and still have them in your repository somewhere. You can delete older packages but the install files won't be gone until you do a reposit...
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If there are particular actions you're worried about during the deployment period, you might be able to set up GPOs for them--for example, a policy to prevent end users from restarting or shutting ...
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Only older versions (I think PDQ Inventory 13 and older) can scan PCs that haven't been updated past .NET 4.5.2. https://link.pdq.com/DownloadLatest?Product=pdqinventory You can contact support for...
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For greater than/equal to, you will want to use the "version not less than" comparison in collections. For older versions, you'll want to use the "version lower than" comparison. Assuming the appli...
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From PDQ Inventory, you can open a PC and check which updates were installed in the "Hotfixes" section. It will show you the name, install date, and so on. As for finding failed updates, perhaps Po...
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Using a PowerShell step in a deployment package, you can copy the contents of the script and run it that way. Without knowing anything about your script (is it just a bunch of standalone cmdlets? i...
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You can use the "submit a request" link at the top of the page for one of the PDQ team to respond to you directly.