My Top 6 Keyboards out of 134 (Part 1)
Hello, Colby here! I’m a computer keyboard collector and enthusiast. I mostly collect mechanical keyboards, but I have a few non-mechanical ones as well. A friend of mine introduced me to mechanical...
View ArticleCreating a New Domain Controller
Hey guys! Thanks for taking a minute to be a part of our PDQ.com Boot Camp series. If you’re a new IT professional or just new to PDQ.com, this post is sure to help ease your stress levels a bit. Today...
View ArticleMy Top 6 Keyboards out of 134 (Part 2)
Hey guys, Colby here! If you missed my last blog post about my first three favorite keyboards, you can check it out here. I briefly talked about my iKBC MF108, PFU HHKB Pro 2, and Keyboardio Model 01...
View ArticlePDQ.com Playlist of Horror Movies
With Halloween around the corner, we thought it would be cool to share some of our favorite spine-chilling, bone-rattling, hair standing on end, films with you. I took the initiative to ask our team...
View ArticleInstalling the Agent with PDQ Deploy
Hi there! Today I would like to show you my approach to installing the PDQ Inventory Agent through PDQ Deploy. First, a quick disclaimer: the Agent is still new and has some scaling issues. Deploy it...
View ArticlePDQ Boot Camp: 3- How to Set Up DNS
How to Set Up DNS In this post, we’ll show you how to set up DNS since it is a very important part of what makes PDQ Deploy and PDQ Inventory tick. For this guide, we’ll assume that you’ll be using...
View ArticlePDQ Boot Camp: 4 – How to Set up DHCP
What good are computers without an address and what good is a network without some automation? DHCP allows computers to automatically acquire an address without having to manually set it. DHCP is...
View ArticleGetting to Know Our Founders
Many of you are probably familiar with Shane and his amazing beard from our Thursday webcasts. You may not be as familiar, however, with Adam and Shawn, our two other founders who do more behind the...
View ArticlePassword Hygiene and Policies
Introduction to password hygiene Our ideas and knowledge about secure passwords have evolved over the last five years. In this post, I’ll talk about password hygiene and policies that may help you...
View ArticlePDQ Tools and Gpupdate
So you’ve found yourself in a dilemma, you’ve just made a bunch of new GPO’s (Group Policy Objects) and you’ve got your manager breathing down your neck. You need these changes to apply NOW, not on...
View ArticleHow to Inventory Windows Store Apps
So you wanna know what Windows Store apps are installed to a computer? Microsoft’s new method of software distribution has been a pain point for software inventory, but thankfully we’ve found a method...
View ArticleHow to Deploy PDQ Client Consoles
Greetings, citizens of the internet! I’m going to share with you how to deploy PDQ to client consoles. It’s pretty straightforward, but there are a few tricks I need to explain first. Also, these...
View ArticleHappy Holidays From PDQ.com!
Happy Holidays From All of us at PDQ.com! 2018 was good to us here at PDQ.com. We introduced some awesome new features within our software (specifically the optional Agent within PDQ Inventory), our...
View Article“How to Lose Your PDQ in 10 Days”
The PDQ 10 (Pudgy, Donut, and something else clever with a Q) You might be wondering what PDQ 10 is? I’ll say this…we’re not referring to a past version of our software or future software release....
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
I don’t know how things go at your workplace, but sometimes our employees can be a little disorganized and messy. System administrators who are messy? What, never…shocking right? Sometimes it’s nearly...
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...
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