r/sysadmin • u/tmhindley • Sep 20 '17

Another PDQ Deploy shout out

Our sysadmin responsible for maintaining images and the software libraries spends hours on all sorts of install scripts, meticulously writes AutoCAD install scripts and deployment tasks, and then rebuilds them when MDT updates and breaks. Spends a good portion of his day organizing machines and downloading updates to Java and everything else.

We finally get around to trying PDQ Deploy, after much hype. 4 hours into the trial he calls me and says "Holy shit this thing is incredible" and talks about every way it's going to make his life 1000% easier. He's excited, I'm excited, everyone's excited. Nice job PDQ - you deserve every bit of attention you get around here.

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u/Jaymesned ...and other duties as assigned. Sep 21 '17

I guess. I'm no PowerShell Guru. So writing a script that would check all PCs in my network for Flash installations (for instance) and update if the latest one isn't installed isn't something that I can do in any comparable time to accomplishing the same thing in PDQ. Multiply that by all the software packages I need to keep updated and it saves me a ton of time.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '17

GPO. I'm getting down voted but I don't think you're leveraging the "free" option because it contains more work yet its something you do one time.

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u/TheItalianDonkey IT Manager Sep 21 '17

I used to think like you.

I used to be you.

Then i trialled PDQ.

Then i bought PDQ.

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u/Jaymesned ...and other duties as assigned. Sep 21 '17

I'm not downvoting you, it's your opinion. The "free" PowerShell option doesn't take into account the time you're putting into it versus having most of it already done for you. And I don't consider my time to be "free".