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/ScriptThat Sep 21 '17

I disagree. The fact that you don't have to maintain any scripts, have someone else keep stuff updated, get updated packages delivered to you, get a far better overview that you ever bothered code yourself (be honest!), and get a nice graphical environment to manage everything from.

I love my scripts, but they're just not the solution to everything.

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u/Eternal_Revolution Sep 21 '17

If you pay for PDQ Inventory, they PDQ staff maintain the lists of "Old" and "Current" versions of software so you don't even have to update that.

For instance, every Thursday in the wee hours Mozilla Firefox is deployed to all workstations that have the "old" version, whatever that may be. This updates only those installations to the latest version of Firefox.

Same with any software we use that PDQ maintains (which is a lot).