PDQ Deploy & Inventory Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for remote inventory and deployment of software.

Likelihood to Recommend

It works very well if you have a smaller environment with no DNS or networking issues, and established standards for the users.

It may not work as well if you have known DNS or networking issues or for larger environments with multiple sites.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Gives me a good broad view of the computers on the network and what hardware and software comprise those units. Also allows me to push out either new or updated software from my desk without having to go to the device itself. The 2 products work hand-in-hand and you can use the information from the inventory software to guide your deployments by using dynamic groups.

Likelihood to Recommend

Very easy to use software that is licensed per admin instead of per machine. So, I've got it on my laptop and desktop and only pay for the 1 license. Great way to keep up with updates to both Microsoft and non-Microsoft software. Set up dynamic groups within the inventory module and then use those groups as targets and deploy updates to those targets. Use the inventory part to see what hardware your devices are running and get a better picture of the devices on your network. Cannot be used to deploy Windows itself, but they do have a separately licensed software package (similar to Norton Ghost, but capable of working with UEFI) which does that.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

PDQ Deploy & Inventory have made themselves indispensable to my company and my day-to-day work. With PDQ Deploy & Inventory, having essentially EVERY shred of pertinent information on over 300 computers readily available at all times is just the norm now. Running reports can quickly give you an idea on where the expensive licenses are sitting, get ahold of outdated drivers, or simply give you a better understanding about your domain and its hardware. PDQ Deploy & Inventory seems to be a very simply program at first, but when you see some of the tricks it has up its sleeves (remote powershell, etc) it becomes an absolute beast when it comes to mass deployment, upgrade, and repair.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have a Windows shop, you simply should have this.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We deploy software with PDQ to not have to remote into the user's computer and not to have to manually do it. It's more convenient and less interruption for the users.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is very helpful deploying software fast and no interruptions. Makes IT life easier. Being able to create packages to deploy and not have to do them individually. It is also good that we see a history of what was deployed. We still have yet to look at the inventory portion of it.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use PDQ Inventory to keep our systems standardized. We use it to check hardware specs on our machines for things like like solid state drives, and CPU generation, and create an inventory of service tags for warranty renewals. We also use it for monitoring installed software for unauthorized changes, or malicious changes to hosts files and suspicious files on servers.

Likelihood to Recommend

PDQ Inventory is great if you have a local network of computers on or off a domain. As long as you have a way to log into them with common credentials. Great for large organizations, particularly ones interconnected with VPNs.

PDQ Inventory isn't so great for PCs that aren't connected to the same LAN the server is on. (i.e. non-vpn remote users) They used to have a remote agent you could install, but it was removed after numerous issues.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

PDQ Deploy is invaluable to us to deliver first installation, setup, patching, and anything we want software-wise to our retail computer estate. This is way over 1,000 machines total and PDQ Deploy can make deployment automated and seamless with reporting for all our needs. It is also great to fetch information from remote machines with simple scripting.

Likelihood to Recommend

PDQ Deploy is great for businesses where reaching a large number of remote computers is required for patching, setting up apps, or Windows tasks. It does it really well once you have created your deploy scenario with various steps where each will be logged in case of failure. PDQ Deploy may be unsuitable where multiple layer of security are in place on the computer you are trying to reach (although some steps can be taken to fix this on remote PC).

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use PDQ Deploy to roll out new software to end-users computers. This has been important since we have been working remote and it is harder to install new software. I also use PDQ Deploy for software updates that need to be installed on laptops across our organization. This way we can stay consistent on version of software.

Likelihood to Recommend

[PDQ Deploy] is great software for most any shop, but I find it very helpful being a one man show and having to work remotely. I can do things faster not having to connect to each laptop and do updates. This save lots of time and makes managing many computers easy.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use PDQ Deploy across the whole organization. We have offices all over the USA. Being in an engineering industry we deal with large applications like Autodesk, and, at the same time, so many tiny engineering applications. Installing these applications sometimes are complicated and cumbersome. PDQ Deploy is one tool that has solved all of our challenges.

Likelihood to Recommend

The majority of engineering software is managed from license servers. Based on office location, we need to customize the installation with different license servers. Certain software release add-ons/features frequently that you need to install on a regular basis. Installing the software and add-ons manually is very time-consuming. PDQ Deploy has resolved all these issues.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use PDQ Deploy across our entire network of 250 computers. We know we can get Microsoft Security updates from WSUS or Patch Tuesday. But want do we do with all of the other browser, Flash PDF readers / writes and other common apps that are on our computers today. We use PDQ Deploy to push pre-built packages (by PDQ) to update the computers in one quick step.

Likelihood to Recommend

To stay compliant we need to keep all 3rd part apps up today. Google chrome, Firefox PDF readers, and Flash are the some of the biggest issues in my eyes. We do not give out admin rights to user so IT must install all updates; If I had to walk around even once a month and update all of these apps I would have not time for any other work. There 80-100 hours of work to do this. No organization has this type of money to do every month. That why we use PDQ products.... it pays for it self the first time you use it. Its like gaining 1/2 an IT guy using this simple tool

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

PDQ Deploy is implemented by our infrastructure team to deploy applications and patches quickly, silently and in bulk. Its been a life saver with volume license version of office deployments and a is a massive time saver any time I need to bulk deploy applications across our environment. It perfectly fills the need for bulk application deployment and silent installation.

Likelihood to Recommend

When managing a large windows based environment PDQ is basically the gold standard for application deployment. If you have an exe, msi or ps1 script that needs to be pushed in bulk PDQ handles it quickly and easily. With the paid version you even get scheduling options.

Not well suited for Linux or Mac deployments from what I have tested.