PDQ Deploy Reviews

Both applications are very easy to use with a lot of settings when setting up applications, packages or scripts to deploy. Also the reports are excellent. Everything down to the menus are great. The customer support is also excellent and it is very easy to integrate into our enviroment, just a quick scan through our AD and it grabs everything. We use it pretty much weekly.

Sometimes a script or a deployment steps could not work as you expect on the first try but it is a matter of getting used to the setup.

We can deploy applications, packages or scripts from a single application very quickly where we have a bunch of collections already setup.

The multi-step scripted deployments. You can write multiple powershell, BAT scripts and other options to put together your own multi-step deployment packages.

To name 3 out of 1000 things you can do:

1. Deployments for software or

2. Automations like registering software or

3. File system house keeping tasks

All tasks that have previously taken forever.

There's nothing I don't like about Deploy and Inventory except the speed. However, I'm not sure how you can speed up processing on the enormous amount of data it's dealing with. I don't actually have any real criticism for either Deploy or Inventory. It's rock solid software.

The easy to use GUI is much better than any other software I've used before for managing large numbers of systems. In combination with the GUI, Inventory's capabilities to search for system characteristics (GPU, driver versions etc.). I can find collections of systems that I need to upgrade or take offline in a snap.

Also, something so simple in Inventory really helps me a lot... the ability to find a system and reboot it very quickly.

There are several things that I really like about PDQ Inventory and Deploy.

First and foremost, I appreciate the efficiency and effectiveness of these tools. They have saved us significant time and effort in managing our IT assets and deployments.

I also appreciate the level of detail and customization available with these tools. The inventory component allows us to see a wide range of information about our devices and software, including hardware and software usage and trends. The deploy component allows us to schedule deployments for specific times and target specific devices, which has been extremely helpful in minimizing disruption for our users.

Overall, I think that PDQ Inventory and Deploy is an excellent suite of tools for IT management, and I highly recommend it to any organization looking to streamline their IT processes.

To be honest, there isn't much that I dislike about PDQ Inventory and Deploy. I have found it to be a highly reliable and effective tool for managing our IT assets and deployments.

If I had to pick one thing that I might dislike, it would be that the interface can be a bit overwhelming at times, especially for users who are not familiar with it. However, this is a minor issue and can easily be addressed through training and practice.

Overall, I have been extremely satisfied with PDQ Inventory and Deploy and have not encountered any major issues or drawbacks while using it. So, I can't think of anything specific that I dislike about it.

PDQ Deploy & Inventory is an effective tool for managing our IT assets and deployments, improving efficiency, productivity, and problem-solving capabilities in our organization. It allows us to quickly and easily track and manage our hardware and software assets, as well as efficiently deploy updates and new software to our devices.

We use this tool to manage and deploy to our employees' workstations. Discovery and setup was very straightforward with excellent integration with Active Directory. Workstations are easily sorted in Collections, where you can create Dynamic Collections and collect Machines based on a number of useful filters such as Operating System. Applications installed, Hostname, IP Address and much more. You can easily have collections of only servers, desktops in a particular office, AWS Workstations, machines with MS Office installed etc..

With these collections, you can fine-tune where you have specific reports and then deploy certain software or have updates enforced and much more. Apart from software one can even deploy firewall rules, powershell commands, copy files and more. This tool made managing machines and audits a pleasure since you can schedule reports and ensure everything is fully up to date.

There's not much negative that can be said about this tool. We have tried similar tools in the past with much worse results. There are sometime hiccups and machines which won't connect and you have to troubleshoot but overall we are very satisfied and these incidents have been sparse.

We needed to ensure at a minimum that all machines are kept up to date with OS and software patches especially since lately so many critical security flaws are being discovered. We also use this to generate reports which keep auditors and management satisfied.

With the PDQ agent, you are able to remotely deploy standard package, Windows Updates, and custom packages that are modified/created by you. With the addition of PDQ Inventory, you have all you need in terms of asset management, with a little bit of procedure injected into your onboarding process. Very handy for a refresh cycle!

The one that that I think that PDQ could potentially improve on is being able to remotely reach out to machines that are not within your network. I believe you can, only if you were to put a hardened server out there in a DMZ. However, it does not fit my smaller organization.

PDQ Deploy allows me to create custom deployment schedules with a baseline of software that I would like to deploy to machines, versus imaging the machine. With Inventory, we can easily track oldest to newest equipment for a refresh cycle.

The PDQ Community is worth its weight in gold. Any time I've had the desire to try and package something that's not built-in, I have found the resources on their site to make it happen.

It's tough to find a negative about this platform. The ONLY thing I can gripe about is the inability to highlight multiple unused files in the repository. To get that drive space back, you have to hit the checkbox next to each file. It can be daunting when you have 1500+ old files to purge.

When I got to this company, new laptops and PC's were configured using the manual installation of over 20 applications. I built a single deployment package that takes a brand new machine and installs all the software we need with one click, including Office 365. The fact I can do that to batches of 10-20 machines at a time saves us a ton of time and allows us to deploy replacement machines the same day.

Both PDQ Inventory and PDQ Deploy are a necessity for my work environment. It has saved us countless hours and prevented many headaches. I manage over 1000 Windows computers and it would not be possible to keep up without PDQ Inventory and Deploy.

If I had to nitpick one thing, it would be that sometimes when I move a device to a different network it takes it a while to resync and come online because the IP Address and DNS Records have changed.

New computer installs are much quicker and easier now that we can create all of our software deployment packages and push them out. Also, the rules and groups that I set up in PDQ Inventory easily allow me to view which devices are in need of updates or are missing specific needed applications.

We have been using this as the primary way we patch all of our software and cumulative windows software for over 2 years. We how easy it is to create an automated deployment. Using Inventory is easy to create automated weekly/monthly reports on our inventory. Overall, we are very satisfied with the price point as well.

The only issues I really have are now that some of our work force is becoming Hybrid. These users rarely VPN into the network, so I have to look for alternative options to manage mobile devices, tablets, and these roaming laptops. The price point still works for us as I use PDQ to manage all of our internal desktops and kiosk type machines that never leave the network. I also use it when setting up my machines to automate the installs of 3rd party software based on specific groups like engineering, office user, plant employee, etc.

PDQ Deploy & Inventory are helping me automate a lot of daily, weekly, and monthly tasks. It's an efficient way to keep third party software up to date (as long as it's part of the Package Library). It also excels at creating inventory reports.

It has been a time-saver. I'm the only IT manager in our company with 100 workstations. Patching or installing software on all of them always took a considerable amount of time.

PDQ deploy keeps several packages up-to-date (chrome, adobe reader, ...), so I don't have to worry about this anymore.

During covid, many of our employees didn't come into the office. I could still manage those devices and install software on them using PDQ Deploy

There is a slight learning curve, especially for more complex installs. However, the documentation is excellent, and you can find a lot of information online.

For our organisation, the price was relatively high, but it was worth every penny.

Remotely updating systems and installing new software on a batch of devices at once.

I now have more time for my other tasks.

I like that it's easy to see a computer's software inventory. You can also easily create an uninstaller for unessassary software and remove it company-wide. I also feel PDQ Delpy makes deploying scripts much more effortless.

I'd like to see PDQ Deploy & Inventory in one interface rather than two separate executables. I also feel that it would be easier to renew our licenses if there was a way to upload a file rather than dig into the settings and copy and paste license text. Over all, these are just improvements that could be made.

It helps solve the need to go deskside whenever we need information. You can see exactly what is installed or know you need to install something without ever going deskside. PDQ is allowing us to also install security software easier because we can bake in the security tokens to the installer.