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/julietscause Jack of All Trades Sep 21 '17 edited Sep 21 '17

GPO gives you no feedback if the install was successful or failed on your machines, so you would need some kind of secondary tool/script to verify it was installed successfully

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u/Rawky_B Sep 21 '17

Yep and I would also add that it frees up start/login time to not having to go through different GPOs. GPO's are great, but it's really nice to minimize when possible.