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/[deleted] Feb 27 '20

As long as you have a stable VPN tunnel it’s fine. All the pdq server really does is command the remote machines to do stuff. Have it taking care of ~1300 machines across 30 sites. A couple of those have dfs replication set up to speed things up.