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PDQ Inventory 10 Beta
New Features The latest PDQ Inventory 10 Beta is now available and it includes some highly requested features! To try out the new beta, click the update link in the status bar of the main console. If...
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Using PowerShell and SQLite to Update Package File Paths
We’re going to look at using PowerShell and SQLite to update package file paths in PDQ Deploy. Trust me, it’s more exciting than it sounds. During the course of a recent file server migration, lots of...
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Managing Your Users’ Web Browser with Browser Router
Ever have a website your users need to use a specific browser to access? Or perhaps you need a particular browser to be the default browser. Getting users directed to the correct browser can be done...
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PDQ Deploy 11 Beta
New Additions PDQ Deploy 11 Beta is here and includes some great new additions to its already powerful lineup of features. You can upgrade PDQ Deploy to the Beta of version 11 by clicking the “A new...
View ArticleRemotely Access the Registry
At our last live webcast (you can sign up to join our free IT webcasts here), we discussed Custom Tools and shared some of our favorites. Below is a download for a favorite utility that allows you to...
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Integrate Your Favorite Sys Admin Utilities with PDQ Inventory
I was visiting a customer last month in Philadelphia and I really liked the first question that he asked me: “What feature do you wish more people would use in PDQ?” “That’s easy. For PDQ Deploy it is...
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What’s New in PDQ Inventory 11
The beta release of PDQ Inventory 11 is now available. Want to try out the latest release? Make sure you’ve included the Beta version in update checks by looking at File > Preferences > Auto...
View ArticlePrepare Your Environment for Remote PowerShell
If you joined us at our live webcast this last Thursday (October 13, 2016 as of this posting) you were introduced to some nifty PowerShell scripts which we want to make available to you. If you missed...
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Keep Computers from Going to Sleep During Installation
If you have an aggressive power savings plan, then you may have had issues with deployments failing due to a computer taking a nap mid-installation. Perhaps you have large install files that take a...
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Deploying to Computers Frozen with Deep Freeze
The problem: A machine in a frozen state loses all changes made to it at its next reboot. This is great for keeping machines in a consistent state for each user every day in, for example, lab...
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Silently Change Firefox Default Search Engine
Oh, Yahoo! when will you learn you can’t buy friends? Firefox set the default search engine to Yahoo! back in 2014. Since then sys admins have been battling the forced setting. Looking to silently...
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Silently Installing TightVNC 2.8.5 To Your Windows Computers
If you have access to the PDQ Deploy Package Library you can use our pre-built package for silently installing TightVNC to all of your Windows computers. If you’d like to build your own TightVNC...
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Remotely Activate Office: Defending Against Mayhem and Horror
It is the nature of things that seemingly straightforward recipes such as those to remotely activate Office can sometimes fail. Realizing that your 14,783 deployments of Office didn’t activate...
View ArticleInitiating Deployments and Scans Using PowerShell
Utilizing the CLI interface (available in both PDQ Deploy and PDQ Inventory) we showed you initiating deployments and scans using PowerShell in this webcast. Why use the CLI? There are a few scenarios...
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See What’s New in PDQ Deploy 12
The beta for PDQ Deploy 12 is now available. To access the beta, make sure you have beta notifications enabled in Preferences > Auto Update Alerts. (Auto Update Alerts will soon be renamed to...
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Track Anti-Virus Software Versions with PDQ Inventory
PDQ Inventory is especially useful for keeping tabs on application information. Building dynamic collections in PDQ Inventory can answer questions like: “Are all of our devices up to date?” and “Which...
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How to Remove AppX Packages
A common request we have is how to remove AppX packages, or in other words, remove Windows 10 default applications. First, you’ll see how to write and deploy a script to remove the applications, then...
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Deploy Adobe Creative Cloud Using Setup.exe
You’re looking to deploy Adobe Creative Cloud using setup.exe, rather than the MSI. For instructions on using the MSI, check out this blog post. This post will show you how to configure the Creative...
View ArticleHow to Disable Flash on Your Network
In this post, we’ll go over how to disable Flash on IE, Firefox, and Chrome. The video below is the complete recorded webcast in which we cover each browser. In each section, a link is provided that...
View ArticlePDQ Inventory 12 is Now in Beta
PDQ Inventory 12 is now in beta and available to download. To stay on the bleeding edge and be notified of all beta versions, go to File > Preferences > Alerts and check Auto Update Check Enabled...
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