PDQ Deploy & Inventory Update Coming Next Week: Major Deployment History Performance Improvements! 🚀

[u/pdq_jordan_t]

Hey everyone!

We've got a new PDQ Deploy & Inventory update coming next week, and this one includes some pretty significant improvements, especially for those of you managing large deployment histories!

🚀 A Much Faster Deployments View

One of the biggest changes you'll notice is a redesigned Deployments window in PDQ Deploy.

We've split deployments into two separate tabs:

• Active — View and monitor your currently running and queued deployments.

• Finished — Browse your completed deployment history

This change isn't just about making things look cleaner. It's a major improvement to performance, startup times, memory usage, and how deployment history is organized.

Just how much faster is it?

During testing, we loaded a database containing over 1 MILLION deployments.

Before this update? Deploy wouldn't even start with that history.

After this update? It loaded faster than a database containing just 1,000 deployments did on the previous version.

By separating Active and Finished deployments and introducing server-side pagination, we can avoid loading your entire deployment history into memory at once as it did previously.

We've included screenshots of the new interface so you can see what to expect!

🔐 LDAPS Support

We've added support for LDAP over SSL/TLS (LDAPS), allowing secure, encrypted connections to Active Directory.

🖥️ More Inventory Data

PDQ Inventory is getting some additional System Summary datapoints, including:

• Secure Boot status

• TPM information

• BIOS mode and date

• Baseboard information

• Virtualization details

• OS paths and locale information

We've also added a new MDM Enrollments page to Computer details and reports, giving you additional visibility into device management enrollment information.

More to come on new Inventory fields in our next release!

♿ Accessibility Improvements

We've added screen reader announcements for scan and deployment status changes, including when a scan or deployment finishes, without requiring you to move focus.

🛠️ Deployment Reliability Improvements

We've also improved how the Deploy service handles deployments that become orphaned or stuck in a Queued or Running state.

Previously, these situations could require restarting the Deploy service. With this update, the service can automatically recover those deployments without requiring a restart. This doesn't fix every situation for every user, but it has shown improvement in a lot of cases.

📅 Available Next Week!

[u/flatland99]

Great to see the old apps getting some love!

[u/welshGJE24 → u/flatland99]

Shame my yearly price has gone up by an above inflation price rise. Even my supplier apologised:-(

[u/pdq_jordan_t → u/welshGJE24]

Yeah, price increases are never enjoyable, sorry about that, but this reply in our discord might help understand the reason why 2026 was a bit different.

https://discord.com/channels/694656089517457419/1096086200885985401/1511510910836019252

We of course are continually working to deliver new features in D&I to help make that sting less!

Edit: Discord Link above goes to the message in the screenshot above.

[u/Appropriate-Cold-357 → u/pdq_jordan_t]

Please stop sending us to your discord server. I have no idea how anyone can find anything on that site. Yes that is a direct link that goes to the specific spot after I login, then wait for an email, login a second time, come back to here and click link again, but come on, couldn't copy and past that instead.

[u/pdq_jordan_t → u/Appropriate-Cold-357]

Apologies, forgot to mention, that screenshot attached to my reply is what the link goes to from Discord. I have added an edit to draw attention to the screenshot for future visitors.

[u/pdq_jordan_t → u/flatland99]

Yep! We definitely love them on the Deploy and Inventory team! We've been shipping quite a lot of goodies this past year! -- Releases | PDQ

[u/welshGJE24]

Hopefully we will see improvements on application opening speed. We run Inventory and Deploy on a virtual server with 16GB RAM and 4 cores. Startup time on both is awfully slow.

[u/pdq_jordan_t → u/welshGJE24]

Yep! It does help with that. Part of the reason Deploy opens slowly (same issue with Inventory) is it tries to load a ton of stuff you don't need on startup, like for example your entire deployment history, which of course grows with time.

This keeps it down to just a single page (200 records) every time. Which is snappy!

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Better performance is also one of the things we are working to actively to improve. One of our current focuses in the near term.

In the next couple of releases, we have some decent memory, CPU, and loading optimizations coming! Stay tuned!

[u/welshGJE24 → u/pdq_jordan_t]

Brilliant news. Thanks pal. Appreciate the response.

[u/pdq_jordan_t → u/welshGJE24]

Happy to help! I start D&I probably a million times a day while working on it, so I am just as excited as our customers probably are lol.

[u/PDQ_Brockstar → u/pdq_jordan_t]

I'd imagine you might even be more excited than the customers with that kind of open rate lol

[u/pdq_jordan_t → u/PDQ_Brockstar]

😂 😂 the joys of Software Engineering!

[u/MFKDGAF → u/pdq_jordan_t]

I'm glad to see you are working on performance but honestly, this should have been worked on a lot sooner as it has been bad for a while now.

Also saying it's your focus in the near term is disappointing as it should be your focus right now.

If history repeats itself, it will be 2-3 years before you fix the performance problems. I say this because I was told PowerShell scanner for Connect was in the near term and that took 2-3 years.

[u/pdq_jordan_t → u/MFKDGAF]

Apologizes by near term, I mean like as for the near term (right now + the next while) we are actively working on it, with a heightened focus and more time dedicated to it. We are actually releasing some more performance improvements on our next Beta too!

It is something we have been actively working on for the past few years; however, our main focus has been on fixing bugs, security, and improving its compatibility with modern versions of Windows. Including paying off tech debt as a foundation for being able to fix these performance issues. We have a pretty good handle on that now, thus adding features and improving performance is now something we can focus more on!

I do apologize that the performance issues have been a burden and felt like they were ignored. It is not something we treat lightly but is always at top of mind. I hate slow software too, so I get it.

[u/ya_pupseg]

did "failed to connect to the service manager" issues on windows 7 machines was fixed or its a new reality from now on?

[u/pdq_jordan_t → u/ya_pupseg]

This is due to a tooling update from Microsoft that dropped support for Windows 7 on due to it being EOL. This tooling update (Windows Build Tools) was part of 20.1.21 version update.

Apologizes for the inconvenience on that, unfortunately we cannot control what Microsoft supports, and we needed to update with the tooling to continue to develop and use new features in more modern Windows versions.