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Monitoring Machines & Servers With PDQ Inventory PowerShell Scanner - Part II
This week, Jordan and Lex will show you how you can monitor and track the state of your environment over time with PDQ Inventory + PowerShell Tomorrow (7/29) at 10am MT / 12p ET.
PDQ Inventory last scan not updated for some PCs
I have been running PDQ Inventory Enterprise for a few years, now latest patch installed.
But I have many PCs that the last scan date is not updated (for months and years) while the users can be sitting a few feet from me....so I know they are here. Weird part is that PDQ Inventory does see them online. I even perform manual scans...
Edited Apr 21, 2021 at 08:40 UTC
How do I create a dynamic group of PCs that have like an application with a ver
I am trying to create a filter for dynamic group of PCs that have application like Veeam 4.x or Does not have Dell command update installed or does have Dell command update installed but below 4.x ?
I can add applications in filters (to find the application) but cannot add additional filters to sort or filter by versions. So when I update the various applications as above, the PCs get removed from the list.
Introducing PDQ Link: IP Connectivity for remote machines
PDQ Link automates the installation and configuration of two Microsoft server roles NPS (network policy server) and RAS (remote access server). Link then creates a client-side installer that builds the connection back to the configured server, then keeps that connection alive. This connection can then be used for anything, its like the client computer was still in the office
Sign up and download here:
https://landing.pdq.com/pdq-link
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Aug 18, 2020 at 20:08 UTC
Check out the blog Jordan wrote as well. https://www.pdq.com/blog/introducing-pdq-link/
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Aug 18, 2020 at 22:15 UTC
Not exactly what I was hoping for, but this solution will help a number of companies out there!
I believe they are doing a live webinar on this topic at https:/
Edited Aug 19, 2020 at 02:17 UTC/ live.pdq.com on Thursday 8/20 @ 10:30 or 11am I think.
PDQ Inventory - fix for servers that won't scan
I had a few Hyper-V servers that were refusing to scan. Ran remote repair tool and they'd passed all tests, but still would not scan. Just stuck on Connecting.
dism /online /get-features /format:table
Examine the output and confirm the following:
ServerCore-WOW64 | Disabled
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Apr 7, 2020 at 13:35 UTC
to jc, looks to be server core, not sure if 16 or 19, but i can see core installing with 32 bit apps disabled by default
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Apr 7, 2020 at 17:55 UTC
You are correct, server core. two were 2012, and another two were 2016.
Hasn't been all of my server core installs even though I could swear I set all of them up the exact same way each time. But for whatever reason these two did not have that feature enabled while the others did. And I do not recall enabling or disabling that feature on anything.
I'm just glad they're scanning now. :)
PDQ and Azure AD
Packages not updating
We are currently using the Enterprise version of PDQ Deploy and I have noticed for the last couple months that packages are not updating. I did finally see the post on the website saying that we needed to update to version 18 for that functionality to continue. I updated to 18.1.28.0 Monday but the packages are still not updating. Any thoughts?
Thanks a lot!
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Oct 30, 2019 at 13:27 UTC
When I updated to 18.1.28.0, I noticed that in the lower right hand corner of PDQ Deploy and Inventory a message stating the check for new versions failed. This also meant I was not receiving any packages. I had reached out to PDQ and they had me download one of the recent nightly builds. Once installed, the issue was corrected and later allowed the download of the newest version 18.1.38.0. Hope that helps.
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Oct 31, 2019 at 17:10 UTC
Thank you Fowlar, I will give that a try and see if it works!
Questioning my renewal.
We have been a customer/user for nearly 2 years (6/2017) of both deploy and inentory. Our renewal is up and we need to decide if we are going to continue. one of the selling points was the future product of the "offline agant" we are starting to see the benefits of the product with the 30 or soo of our 220 machines that are more often than not off our LAN. I was hoping to get some warm and fuzzies from you about the pull back of the agent and the time line of a new launch of it. I know there were some limits(no custom pack's) but the ability to remotely keep java, chrome A-reader and other up to date was great.
thanks!
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May 14, 2019 at 19:52 UTC
Agent or no agent, I think the cost of PDQ is pennies compared to similar solutions out there. It's one of the most reasonably priced admin tools you'll come across so unless your budget is extremely tight, I would suggest you stick with it.
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May 16, 2019 at 21:43 UTCWe apologize for the frustration. As mentioned on this thread you can continue to use the features you mentioned we just needed to reset the expectations since we obviously didn't anticipate the load the agent adoption would place on our infrastructure. While we work out the problems we do hope that the functionality of both programs (even excluding the agent beta) is something you find to be a great benefit.
Deploy Credetials
It's possible this has been answered before, but I want to use a service type account for deployment but I don't want it to be a domain admin. What group or permissions do people use for running deployments?
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Feb 21, 2019 at 16:23 UTC
Alright I figured out a way to deploy without domain admin credentials. I created a GPO called Admin Share access
Computer Configuration -->Polices --> Windows Settings --> Security Settings --> Local Policies/Security Options -->Accounts -->Administrator account status -->Enabled
This step may not be necessary if you know they are enabled in your environment (It just seemed like a good precaution to me)
Computer Configuration -->Polices --> Windows Settings --> Security Settings --> Restricted Groups --> Group --> Builtin\ Administrators -->(add your deploy user)
It didn't really work when I added my deploy user to the Administrators in AD. Since it's a GPO you'll have to wait for replication.
I also discovered through the joy of getting a text last night that it removes domain admins from the local administrators group. Be sure to add domain admins as well as your deploy user.
Edited Feb 22, 2019 at 14:23 UTC
Deploying package to external agent laptop
I am running a trial version of both Deploy and Inventory. The only issue I am having is managing laptops with the agent. I have engaged support@pdq.com and haven't gotten very far with them yet.
The inventory console recognizes the agent as installed and external on this laptop. I have it on our external wifi.
The issue I am having is deploying pre-built packages to external laptops. I am getting "Access denied to computer's service manager". I have gone through everything listed here:
https://support.pdq.com/knowledge-base/1143
None of which seem to have solved my issue. Inventory has no issues scanning the laptop.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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May 14, 2019 at 18:41 UTC
When you deploy to external agents you need to use the local admin credentials.
Dell BIOS Deployment
Hi Guys! I am new to PDQ, but my company is using it for a while. i would like to know how to deploy an Dell BIOS Update.
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Sep 24, 2018 at 13:38 UTC
Create a new package to install the .exe from Dell. Under parameters use:
Text/s /r /l="C:\log-location\bios-update-log.txt"
where /s = silent, /r = reboot, /l = log location
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Sep 24, 2018 at 14:13 UTC
Thank you Shawn!
First of all, i did not expect an reply by the founder of the company :D kudos for that!
I will send an E-mail to support@pdq.com as soon as possible.
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