PDQ Deploy

PDQ la Herramienta Indispensable para los Equipos de IT

Comentarios: Sin duda ha sido un acierto para nosotros, hemos apostado y hemos ganado con creces con su herramienta.Agradezco el foro pdqforum.com y los videos que hay en su canal de youtube, ha sido un acierto, ya que nos han ayudado a entender la forma de trabajar con la herramienta y de como configurar los primeros paso y lo que es indispensable, luego ya nos ha tocado afinar las configuraciones según nuestras necesidades.PDQ Inventory y PDQ Deploy han cambiado nuestra forma de trabajar, todo mucho más ordenado y viendo los cambios realizados en los equipos en tiempo real, lo recomiendo 100%

Puntos a favor:

En un principio se tuvieron que configurar los parámetros que nosotros deseábamos, que no fueron pocos, se realizaron filtrados por equipos, por S.O., por sedes, por software instalado, por ubicaciones, por antigüedad, por no uso, por estar pendientes de Updates.

Puntos en contra:

Lo que menos me ha gustado es sin duda el que en algunas actualizaciones de productos se hayan configurado para que no sean actualizables, nos ha pasado con Chrome y Zoom que hemos tenido que realizar la instalación con una configuración manual y editar el registro en los equipos para que vuelva a ser auto actualizables.

A easy to use and reliable solution for small and mid sized companies

Comentarios: When we started to use this software, we did not have a solution to inventory and deploy softwares on your computers and servers, that is a powerful tool, with a very good price that really worths the investiment. We were able to keep all our computers and softwares updated, and we have pushed some Windows build updates through PDQ Deploy, which worked very well! If you do not have a inventory/deploy solution on your environment, and cannot spend so much money with it, go with PDQ without think twice, you will not regret!

Puntos a favor:

It is easy to implement, configure and to use it, everything on this software is so intuitive, even if you not read the manual you can do more than 50% of the software functionalities. The software has a wide variety of options to deploy softwares to your computers, also, if you spend a few bucks more, you can buy the PDQ Inventory, which works very well integrated with the Deploy solution.

Puntos en contra:

The error messages on the deploys are not so clear, it difficults the troubleshooting on the first time without some research.

The one thing you got to have

Comentarios: Used it at previous job, and when I came discovered they had a competitor. Tried to learn the competitor's patch management and device management. It was a headache and time consuming. Got the boss to purchase PDQ and right of the bat, everyone could use it quickly and efficiently without reading a 100 page pdf on how to use it. So intuitive and easy to use. I use it daily to manage my computers and make sure everything is up to date. Boss has come to me a couple times asking for a list of XYZ, and expecting that it is a project for the rest of the day, I'm able to get that to him within the hour, sometimes in ten minutes.

Puntos a favor:

the dynamic collections you can make has been life changing. Able to create one on the fly and it continue to update and tell me if new computers have something unwanted on it, or computers that are missing important programs. I use it daily to check things. I also use it to quickly remote into computers. I have computers on the road and I have to jump in there sometimes remotely and need to be able to look at software lists quickly and a couple clicks my remote software is already connected. Or I can use pdq deploy to shoot out a program update or install something new. PDQ Deploy has all the right switches and knows exactly what to do with files to silently deploy practically anything. Testing is simple and easy and usually I have it tested and deployed within an hour. Saves me time everyday to quickly do what I need to do and have time to work on other projects. Support is also a godsend. Quick, easy, and friendly to the max!

Puntos en contra:

Not much that I do not like. The new icons are weird and there are some bugs in pdq deploy that get updates stuck and they just sit in the list forever. Usually when I have a con come up in my mind, I find out that the feature request I thought of, is already in the system some where.

Can't do without it now

Comentarios: PDQ allowed us to align all software to the same versions, standardizing our enviornment. the number of trouble tickets related to misconfigured programs or version issues, etc has become nearly zero.

Puntos a favor:

The simplicity of building a deployment and sending it off.

Puntos en contra:

Remote client issues aside (connect would fill that), a revamped scheduling tool with extra reporting would make it much easier to see the progress and status when sending out mass deployments on a schedule.

PDQ Deploy anomalies

Puntos a favor:

Simplify server management Saves on me sign in multiple times Repeat task on remote machines

Puntos en contra:

These features seem inconsistent: - Say you want to run a number on commands on a number of servers you cannot get a combined report of the output of all the commands. Often this is needed as the report may be input into further tools - You should be able to set default credentials for each computer you add manually which can be overridden from 'deploy one' - You should be able to group a group of computers like a tree structure eg. directory structure in Windows or UNIX - Computers should be able to be a member of more than one group. When you add a known computer to another group it should copy all these properties as default starting point - In new package, you should have the ability to not have to choose a step type but the commands the user types in most cases tell you what type of step it is