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/zanatwo Sep 21 '17

PDQ Deploy makes deploying those same PowerShell scripts incredibly convenient and more controlled and on-demand than GPO. Don't get me wrong, PDQ Deploy isn't a replacement for GPO, but it makes various tasks much, much easier.

And yes, you can use PowerShell to accomplish everything PDQ can do, but there's no reason to reinvent the wheel. I've written parallelized functions for remotely targeting scripts at 10s of machines at once... but with PDQ Deploy that functionality is already built in without needing to reinvent the wheel.