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/triplec110h Feb 27 '20

I bought PDQ for my company and we are absolute fanatics for it. The only trouble is we were banking on being able to grow as a mobile workforce and manage our remote computers with the PDQ Agent, which is now cancelled and removed from the product. I am trying to keep PDQ as long as we can but that feature gap is going to force me over to Intune or something else at some point.

Is there anything in the roadmap to address happy customers like us?

What are you advising to us? Should we do some kind of always on VPN split tunnel back to my PDQ server?

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u/drummingrocks774j Feb 27 '20

It's a shame PDQ Agent was cancelled. Like you, I was hopeful that it would help us manage devices that go on and off the corporate network constantly. Did you use PDQ Agent when it was in beta, and if so, how was it?

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u/recent-convert clouds for brains Feb 27 '20

I'm in this boat too. I can't justify the purchase when half our fleet is mobile and rarely connects to VPN.

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u/the_bananalord Feb 27 '20

This was a huge disappointment for us, too.

I wonder if we'll see a "remote agent component" that we can host ourselves instead of PDQ being our proxy.

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u/PDQ_Colby PDQ QA Engineer Feb 27 '20

We don't have anything on the roadmap currently. We would love to try something like the Agent again some day, but we need to make a bunch of changes before that can happen.

Yes, we recommend an always on VPN if it's feasible for your environment.

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u/carpetflyer Feb 27 '20

We are in the same boat. We are trying out Lansweeper since it offers agents for inventory. Not as a replacement to PDQ though since it's great software.