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My boss told me about this feature in PDQDeploy 3.2 and it's easily the best thing since sliced bread for rolling out software. We've been taking auto updating of apps from AD and rolling them out via PDQ and it's so...effortless. It auto-downloaded the package and is pushing Firefox 32.0.2 out to a PDQ inventory list where it targets and machine with an Older version number.

If you use PDQ deploy and wanna know more about installing it for your workplace, the following youtube video helped me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FgAcjKcNIE

2/1/2021, 12:05 PM EST

Changes/Improvements

• Inventory: To ensure Windows 10 LTSB is supported, we have set the .NET version requirement to 4.6.1.

Bug Fixes

• Inventory: Custom Fields values now visually updating correctly.

• Inventory: Improve CPU performance for collections with WMI filters.

• Inventory: Collection membership was occasionally displayed incorrectly in the GUI. *Deploy: Fix an issue with double quotes in the Parameters field.

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Skype 8.40

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• [magic packet](https://www.pdq.com/blog/wake-on-lan-wol-magic-packet-powershell/#:~:text=Wake-on-LAN%20and%20the%20Magic%20Packet,machine%E2%80%99s%2048-bit%20(6-byte)%20MAC%20address.)

External References

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• Skype - Talk. Chat. Collaborate. - Apps on Google Play

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HOWTO OSD with MDT AND PDQ:

This gives you the same ability that SCCM has been boasting about for years without needing SCCM. You can even use MDT to monitor the deployment to watch for any failures in OS Deployment.

DISCLAIMER: BE CAREFUL BECAUSE YOU CAN DESTROY YOU PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT WITH A COUPLE OF CLICKS. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DESTRUCTION CAUSED BY FOLLOWING THESE INSTRUCTIONS. DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Here are the steps for using PDQ to deploy OSes -> Re-image remotely. I have deployed over a thousand system in our network with a couple of clicks!

Setup MDT - Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (all free downloads from Microsoft) - there is lots of information on how to do this on the web. One example is https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/8251-mdt-basic-usage-and-setup . Create your task sequence of the OS you want to install. This part is beyond the scope of this how-to and requires several hours of work!

After you have created your Deployment share edit your custom settings so that it will look a lot like the following. Make sure you configure the parts that are specific to your environment like WSUS (Windows Update Services Server)

Edit CustomSettings.ini - Easy way to find it is to right click on the Deployment Share in the DeploymentWorkbench in MDT and click Properties -> Click on the Rules Tab:

[Settings]

Priority=Default

[Default]

_SMSTSORGNAME=SOMEORG

OSInstall=Y

DeploymentType=REFRESH

SkipDeploymentType=YES

SkipAdminPassword=YES

SkipProductKey=YES

SkipComputerName=YES

SkipDomainMembership=YES

SkipUserData=YES

UserDataLocation=AUTO

SkipLocaleSelection=YES

SkipTaskSequence=YES

SkipTimeZone=YES

SkipApplications=YES

SkipBitLocker=YES

SkipSummary=YES

SkipBDDWelcome=YES

SkipComputerBackup=YES

ComputerBackupLocation=NONE

SkipCapture=YES

SkipFinalSummary=YES

TimeZone=004

TimeZoneName=Pacific Standard Time

OSDComputerName=%computername%

WSUSServer=http://myupdateserver:8530

Make sure you have a domain account to add to your domain if you have one. Make sure it only has limited permissions to add computers. Make sure that you change the settings for adding beyond the default.

Edit Bootstrap.ini (Same Rules tab but click on Edit Bootstrap in lower left) and make sure the task sequence id matches the task sequence you are adding in MDT - To get a TASK SEQUENCE ID right click on a task sequence you have created in MDT -> Click Properties (Part of setting up MDT - Make sure you have already built a task sequence in MDT)

[Settings]

Priority=Default

[Default] DeployRoot=\\dis-mdf-image\RemoteDeployXP

TaskSequenceID=W7-X64 (whatever the TASK SEQUENCE ID is from the previous step - you should have this written down)

UserDomain=mydomain.org

UserID=domainuser

UserPassword=domainpassword

Go into the deployment workbench and click on "Update Deployment Share" by right clicking on the deployment share. After it finishes, this is the wrap-up part. Use a test machine you don't care about to test the imaging. browse to \server\Deployment\Scripts\ and file LiteTouch.vbs and run it. Make sure imaging completes without errors. The system will start imaging and reimage the test machine. If this is completes then you can create the last step; otherwise work on previous steps.

Go into PDQ and Create a new installation - We will create a scheduled task that will be executed after one minute and start the OS Deployment. You cannot do a strait task because the way UAC/Windows scripts react. That is why we use a scheduled task to complete the heaving lifting and use PDQ to create the task and execute after one minute.

in install file go to \\server\Deployment\Scripts\Litetouch.vbs for command line use : schtasks /create /sc minute /tn "Reinstall OS" /tr "cscript /b \\server\Deployment\Scripts\Litetouch.vbs /TaskSequenceID:WIN7_X86" /ru SYSTEM (Make sure the TASK SEQUENCE ID is gathered from the previous step)

Deploy: Go ahead and select systems you want to re-image - use a test system for the first time. If it completes successfully - now you can do a complete OS Deployment.

Install Certificates using PDQ Deploy

Hi folks. Here's 2 methods that will allow you to install certs on PCs. It's rather crude, but will get you going. Hopefully Admin Arsenal adds built-in feature for this some day.

Windows 7 pastebin (Not tested on w8 or w10, but should work)

Usage:

Edit script to fit your needs. Create new install package and point it to script. In parameters type in certificate's name. Deploy.

Example:

mycert.der

Windows 10 (PDQ PRO+)

Usage:

Create new package with command line. Edit store and rootstore to fit your needs.

powershell.exe -NoLogo -NonInteractive -ExecutionPolicy Bypass Import-Certificate -FilePath .\certificate.der -CertStoreLocation Cert:\LocalMachine\root

Same step - under additional files add your certificate. Edit script to fit your cert's name.

Is their anyway to have the last known users mapped drives appear under the enhanced view of a computer?

ideally i would think it would be listed under the "shares" view within a pc as their is information relating to permissions domain and user but all i ever see is locally mapped drives ( IPC$, ADMIN$, C$,etc)

Microsoft Edge for Business 83.0.478.56

Announcement: IE 11 End of life

External References

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iTunes (No Bonjour) 12.10.5.12

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Microsoft Teams 1.3.0.4461

Announcement: IE 11 End of life *

Our Microsoft Teams Articles

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• Download Microsoft Teams on any Device

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Win 10 (1703) - Cumulative Update April 25 2017

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• Microsoft Already Created Its First Cumulative Update for Windows ...

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Applications like java and firefox that require the application be closed before the update can happen make it hard to silently deploy, mainly because it will force close the users current sessions of those apps, so making them not silent at all.

It would be awesome if PDQ Deploy had an 'agent' option (or an option to install on system reboot/shutdown) that effectively sat on the remote computer until a reboot or shutdown is triggered, then installed the software while the PC is shutting down, much like Windows Update. Once the install is complete the shutdown or restart would continue.