PDQ.com Boot Camp: 6 – Your First Deployment
We’ve covered lot’s of things in this boot camp series to get you ready for your first deployment. If you missed them, check out our past videos and blog posts before continuing. We discuss things such...
View ArticlePDQ.com Gives Back
How PDQ.com is Giving Back to the Community We do more than just develop software and talk about the Simpsons, Futurama, and Family Guy around here. We also like to contribute to our community and help...
View ArticlePDQ.com Boot Camp: 5 – Setting Up LAPS
LAPS isn’t a horrifying disease, it stands for Local Administrator Password Solution. After a computer is joined to the domain the local administrator account isn’t used often or is disabled and not...
View ArticleSix Must Have Cable Organizers to Help Disguise Ugly Electronic Cords
Try PDQ Deploy Bobino Rubber Cable Wraps This gadget makes a great cable wrap for securing long cords that can easily make a mess of your desk. It’s compact and flexible, making it easy to conceal and...
View ArticleThree Ways to Impress Your Boss Using PDQ Deploy & PDQ Inventory
How to Convince The Boss We know, that you know that our software is pretty awesome, but does the holder of the purse strings know that too? So how do you convince and impress your boss? It can be hard...
View ArticleSo You’ve Inherited PDQ Deploy and Inventory from a Predecessor
You’ve Inherited PDQ Deploy and Inventory…Now What? You just found out that Tim is moving on. You’re not sure where, and you’re not sure that you care. All that matters now is that you’re taking over...
View ArticleRemoving Windows 10 Apps and Advertising
You’ve found yourself in the same situation as most other sysadmins in the world. Now, you’ve been tasked to clean up Windows 10 for your organization. You’ve searched the internet and found blogs and...
View ArticleHow To Maintain Patching During a Government Shutdown
As of this writing, the United States government is reopening for three weeks ending the longest government shutdown in American history. PDQ.com understands how difficult this shutdown has been on the...
View ArticlePDQ.com Boot Camp: 6 – Your First Deployment
We’ve covered lot’s of things in this boot camp series to get you ready for your first deployment. If you missed them, check out our past videos and blog posts before continuing. We discuss things such...
View ArticlePDQ.com Gives Back
How PDQ.com is Giving Back to the Community We do more than just develop software and talk about the Simpsons, Futurama, and Family Guy around here. We also like to contribute to our community and help...
View ArticleGoodnight, Sweet Prince. PDQ.com Retires a SAN
Obituary Section Dearly beloved sysadmins, we have gathered here today to put the soul of a cluster to rest. INFONUCLEUS1 and INFONUCLEUS2, along with their persnickety IMS pair, served PDQ.com and its...
View ArticleSetting Up DFS In Your Environment
Setting Up DFS In Your Environment Let’s walk through setting up Windows DFS. If reading is not your thing, check out the video tutorial above that goes through these same steps. The following steps...
View ArticleDeploying Office 365 the Right Way™
One of the most common requests that we’ve received over the years is for instruction on how to properly deploy Office 365. Some time ago, High Overlord Brigg was kind enough to compile an article that...
View ArticlePDQ Agent (Beta) – Parent/Teacher Conference
We just returned from a Parent / Teacher conference where we discussed the progress of our child, PDQ Agent. We were, admittedly, a little sad to hear his teacher say “He is not like the other...
View ArticleHarsh Reminder: Murphy’s Law Is Very Real
“Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” From experience, I can tell you that this old adage almost always comes true on a video production or film set. And the production of our latest PDQ.com...
View ArticleASUS Supply Chain Attack (ShadowHammer)
If you or anybody you know uses ASUS notebooks, you might want to check the tech news (if you haven’t already). Your machines may have been host to malicious updates that were passed via ASUS’s Live...
View ArticleInventory 17 is now available
PDQ Inventory 17 is now available for download. This version of PDQ Inventory comes with some smaller features that have unfortunately been on the back burner, but we figure it’s about time we tackle....
View ArticlePatching Pet Peeves
While patching your machines and deploying each software you’re responsible for, we wouldn’t be surprised if the various browsers, readers, and players start to take on a sort of…personality…in your...
View ArticleUI Testing a WPF App in Windows Containers
At PDQ.com, we are always looking for ways that we can drive the creation, testing, and support of our applications to be as efficient and effective as possible. To that end, I’ve recently been...
View ArticleUI Testing in Windows Containers – Why?
Earlier this year, Microsoft officially released the “Windows Family” 1809 image, which they have touted in previous blog posts as specifically being engineered to support automated UI testing of...
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