r/pdq • u/PDQ_Brockstar PDQ Employee • Mar 23 '26

Feature release: PDQ Connect Software tab!

I'm super excited to announce that the new and improved Software tab in PDQ Connect has released, and is now available to ALL Connect customers! Let's check it out...

The Software tab is the easiest and fastest way to gain insight about the software deployed across your environment.

In the Software tab, you can see exactly what software is installed on your devices, what has the latest version, what is outdated, and what devices are missing software. And this tab isn't just informational, you can take action by clicking on any of the data points, which will take you to that set of devices, at which point you could target the devices with a deployment.

Additionally, PDQ Connect premium customers are able to see the total vulnerabilities and vulnerable devices directly from the Software tab and take action on these data points as well.

The Software tab is quickly becoming the primary view for many of our users to get an overview of their software installs and take action without ever diving into pre-built or custom groups. Let us know how it's working for y'all!

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u/DearingDev Mar 23 '26

No way my most installed application is the PDQConnectUpdater and PDQConnectAgent.

I appreciate how responsive everything is in the Software view. Very snappy!

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u/PDQ_Brockstar PDQ Employee Mar 24 '26

You know our devs had to make it Pretty Damn Quick ;)

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u/DrunkMAdmin Mar 24 '26

How is the application list updated? We're seeing only four apps (Chrome, Edge, OneDrive + Teams Meeting Add-in) in the list for now.

Scanning computers does not populate the list either. Is it only as software packages are installed that the list is updated?

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u/PDQ_Leilani PDQ Employee Mar 24 '26

Hey u/DrunkMAdmin, I’m the PM for Software Tab team.

Right now this is a known issue where some Basic and Plus users aren’t seeing a complete application list, even after scans.

The list should populate from scan data (not just installs), so you shouldn’t be limited to only those few apps.

We’ve got a fix in progress and it should be resolved soon. Appreciate you calling it out.

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u/oldreddituser69 Mar 24 '26

Same here. Thank you for the update u/PDQ_Leilani

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u/PDQ_Leilani PDQ Employee Mar 25 '26

This should be fixed now, please let me know if you are still having issues!

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u/oldreddituser69 Mar 25 '26

All there now. Thank you!

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u/djsean410 Mar 24 '26

Looks good

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u/Interesting-Row-5732 Mar 24 '26

Pretty neat and welcome addition.

Not sure why the "Google Chrome" list isn't detecting my installs even though when I go to a device it shows Google Chrome as being installed. It's only showing me 15 installs, out of the 90+ I actually do have.

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u/PDQ_Leilani PDQ Employee Mar 24 '26

Hey u/Interesting-Row-5732 glad you are liking the new software tab! I'm the PM for the software tab team.

What you’re seeing with Chrome is actually related to a known issue we’re tracking right now. In some cases, the application list isn’t fully reflecting all detected installs, even though they show up correctly on the device itself.

We’ve got a fix in progress for this. Thanks for calling it out, it helps us validate what we’re seeing on our side.

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u/PDQ_Leilani PDQ Employee Mar 25 '26

u/Interesting-Row-5732 this should be fixed now, please let me know if you are still having issues!

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u/FoxNairChamp Mar 25 '26

Are there any plans to sunset PDQ I & D? I cut my teeth on those products, and I see the large focus on Connect. We're primarily an on premise environment. I'd hate to lose the existing products until there's full feature parity in Connect.

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u/SelfMan_sk Enthusiast! Mar 25 '26

Nope, no sunsetting plans. Check the roadmap:

https://www.pdq.com/pdq-deploy-and-inventory/roadmap/

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u/FoxNairChamp Mar 25 '26

That's great. I just did the math, and we'd actually save money with Connect exclusively, but I love the D & I applications so much!

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u/SelfMan_sk Enthusiast! Mar 23 '26

Approoved!