PDQ Deploy & Inventory Reviews

PDQ Deploy has been a great time saver for us. The wide range of deploying software makes installing, updating or patching quick and efficient without having to babysit each step of the process.

Understanding the layout of how the application packages are created and stacking multiple steps can be a bit confusing until you walk through a few different ones.

I thing PDQ Inventory is the easyest inventory tool ever.

We dont go to lastest version available because the new versions have dependency of higher .NET, and upgrade that just to follow PDQ is not that simple.

You can setup automated scheduled tasks to patch systems at any time during the week or weekends. Allows patches to automatically be pushed out afterhours to avoid any system downtime.

It is mainly intended to only inventory and patch Windows products. It would be great to have more integration where it could go out and inventory printers and linux type devices.

Ease of use and ability to do the tasks needed for managing devices. A huge time saver. A huge travel saver as I do not need to be on site to push programs, add printers, etc.

It's not free. Seriously, I don't have a con that I can think of. It meets my needs,

As a small IT shop PDQ helps me stay on top of updates and schedule them where it does not inconvenience the user.

Sometimes confusing creating an inventory collection.

Without agent installation on the Clients.

So far nothing negative has been noticed.

Best thing is that it is very easy to use and guides us with the maps of printers and deployment of updated softwares.

Sometimes some error occurs in the deployment that is not so clear...On large scale it's speed slows down

Automating Software and Patches for Desktops.

Wake on LAN does not work. Also, the package library is limited. I do not have the option to add different software to the package library so It can auto-download/ approve the latest version,

PDQ Deploy & Inventory service and support

PDQ Deploy & Inventory service and support Software and report type

I’ve use it for all sorts, managing 500 machines. I use collections to alert me to machines missing keyboard/mice, hard drive space, machines offline for over 3 days. Battery life in laptops. Software inventory….. the list goes on

It’s dependancy on DNS. I’m not sure if our dns is configured correctly

The software itself works really well. The hard part consists of getting all the machines to talk to each other and then figuring out the silent command -line statements that are needed to install the software. For most of the well-known software, the silent switches are well known and for the most popular tools PDQ will even supply their own scripts.

I'd love PDQ Deploy to re-imagine their local Agent idea. The last time they tried it supposedly didnt meet their standards. I'd say look at other software like Goverlan and even AWS Thinkbox Deadline (a renderfarm manager) to see how they do a local Agent to see if those would meet the criteria. PDQ has no ability to install software that doesn't offer a command-line silent switch. You'd think that this would never come up in Education but... you'd be surprised. We run a lot of 3D and VFX apps that are made by one developer and when you ask them for the silent switches they reply "what are you talking about" . Now, to be sure, this isn't really a "con" of PDQ, but it is fair to mention. If you have any software that just doesn't have any command-line automation which can run silently via a Windows Service User, you'll have to get something alongside PDQ Deploy to make that happen.

Its easy to use, easy to teach, and highly customizable.

No support for Azure devices. I wish there was an agent that I could install on all my devices to have PDQ talk to all of them and have 1 place to push all of my software out from.

The value for the money, the flexibility and ease of use.

True remote access and monitoring would be a huge benefit, I'm really hoping this gets added in the future . With an increasingly mobile workforce this would be a gamechanger.

PDQ is an easy to use tool to scan machines for information on each machine as well as deploying apps. We use it with our deployments to segregate different builds for machines. The ability to deploy powershell scripts, install .exe files and copy files is amazing and very easy.We also calls PDQs API to deploy different things making it a central hub for app deployment. The future will be making a service that users can just call PDQ to deploy an app to them.PDQ connect has a lot of promise, which will allow us to deploy apps that are not connected to our network. Giving us more control beyondAnother plan soon will be to use PDQ for software license counts.PDQ was also easy to setup and migrate to a new server when we wanted to increase the specs of the machine it was on.

They are working towards it now, but the ability to deploy to machines beyond our network is amazing. Giving us information too and status updates on those machines so we can monitor them.Not a con but I do hope they continue adding to their PDQ inventory and API. A future request/project for us is to beable to use PDQ to keep an accurate license count of software. We have some long ideas but would love to use PDQ to keep tabs on everything for us rather than relying on basic data entry.

Ease of use, how simple it was to deploy it and keep our systems updated.

None, it's easy to understand and maintain.

When using a software solution to automate certain tasks (like patch management), it's important that the product is simple to use and fit to purpose. PDQ Deploy is not one of those packages that you purchase and quickly forget about.

We haven't encountered any issue that we were not able to resolve by either viewing the many supportive YouTube videos or supporting documentation. We would be hard pressed to identify a feature we didn't appreciate.

Ease of use and deployment. Great to utilize for a small team.

We would like to see more programs supported within the catalogue.

It's super easy to use, great support when you need it ... it's one of the few truly set it and forget it tools out there.

Dealing with remote devices can be challenging.