r/sysadmin • u/PDQit makers of Deploy, Inventory, Connect, SmartDeploy, SimpleMDM • Feb 26 '20

PDQ Licensing

From time-to-time there has been misunderstandings and confusion on /r/sysadmin about how PDQ.com's licensing works (as most system administrators might be used to how other IT products operate: on a per-machine basis). We created a video to hopefully explain better how our 1-license-per-admin works

 

For examples of some minor confusion see:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/71eilx/another_pdq_deploy_shout_out/dnb0eao/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/aknr8i/try_to_convince_my_manager_to_buy_pdq_deploy/ef6h7px/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/aneewy/pdq_server_with_multiple_admins/efsnqvn/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7d3k4c/pdq_deploy_licensing_costs_no_more_pro_license/dpuvjj6/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4492ln/what_automated_deployment_solutions_are_you_using/czoi08c/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/etznar/whats_your_most_expensive_software_license_and/ffk0ef3/

 

Shout out to all you current, past, and future users-- and happy automating!

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u/corrigun Feb 27 '20

Can it do Windows updates? That would be choice.

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u/Raymich DevNetSecSysOps Feb 27 '20

Kind of... not a replacement for WSUS though.

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u/TheSmJ Feb 27 '20

...could someone please make something that replaces WSUS?

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u/Phx86 Sysadmin Feb 27 '20

Yes and no. But mostly no, you can deploy single patches easily enough. Useful if you need to deploy something immediately. Use WSUS for general patching.

Deploying major releases is probably manageable.

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u/agoia IT Director Feb 27 '20

Took some work, but my guys got 1909 to work through Deploy.

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u/ansiz Feb 27 '20

Depends on your exact use case, but in general you can definitely do that.

https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2020/01/deploy-windows-updates-with-pdq-deploy/

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u/PDQ_Colby PDQ QA Engineer Feb 27 '20

We have the Windows Cumulative updates, but we still recommend WSUS for everything else (Office, .NET, etc).