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Looks neat
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@Eric helped with a mcs update script that does all ms patches and I added this for the commercial apps. Works well.
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@Cory Zaner please provide more updates as you progress with your testing, it looks like a great app
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We use it together with WSUS to patch 3rd party applications - works great, just set it up and forget
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I have just tested the home edition on my own computer. Do you know if it's possible to prevent desktop shortcuts from being created?
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I don’t think you can customize - they take the default installer packages from the vendors, so you would have to edit the MSIs or add MSTs - since we don’t do the initial deployment with Patch my PC, we don’t have to worry about this.
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Hm...I think I'll do some more tests. Thank you for yout input @dready :)
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We don’t have SCCM. We used PDQ Deploy for our 3rd party apps. Batch Patch with WSUS for MS patches.
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@dready did you use sccm with it? Do you find that WSUS with PMC gives you want you need?
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No SCCM -it’s just to much hassle for us. We simply inject the updates with PMC into WSUS. For deployment we use PDQ / MDT. Personally I find the patching much more straightforward with PMC/WSUS than with PDQ - so we kept both tools.
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So adobe updates or chrome updates are delivered via WSUS?
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PDQ seems super cheap, I might need to check it out. We have a large sccm environment (not supported by me) and sometimes it’s a PITA. A theme for us is keep it simple.
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PDQ is both simple and cheap. We use it for automating all app updates and baseline installs of said apps. We have rules set up and every time a new common app has an update, it automatically pushes it out to all endpoints. MDT deployments leverage it for app installs too.
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Hmm i need to look into this. SCCM is so frustrating in patching my vdas
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yes - all third party updated covered by PMC are delivered through WSUS @Steve Elgan PDQ is a great tool but I preferred PMC for updates because it’s agent less.
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Agent less is a key for me. Is there a guid or something u change on a base image?
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PDQ is agentless
The agent is only needed for the devices not connected to the network/ vpn
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also for the updates? have to read the docs I guess ;)
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App updates and everything
The agent wasn’t introduced until v16 or 17. We started on v12 or so
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both tools are so cheap we didn’t care and just kept both of them :)
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Yep. Use what works
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Good stuff. I need something to get sccm out.
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PDQ is nice because we have a lot of custom scripts that we like to push to computers for various things and we can use that using power shell scripts or batch scripts
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Nice. I can run each one in a trialmode and then decide.
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I have also used their inventory product to define baseline configurations for workstations and for servers. It provides us a working report that my team can then use to remediate gaps in the baseline or even leverage automated schedules to address it.
I’ll add that PDQ’s package library also has the W10 monthly security and quality updates if you wanted to manage those out of band from WSUS for any reason
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if you’re looking for something to replace SCCM it’s definitely PDQ If you only need third party patching, patch my pc might be good enough.
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Yea looking to get rid of sccm in out Citrix environment. Its just overly complicated and i honestly am tired of the agents getting jacked up on our master images. I have to leave the on at all times in read mode or sccm will freak out.
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Im not a sccm guy so it could be a knowledge gap for me.
I told my SCCM guy about this, he said ok go with pdq im tired of managing your stuff
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Nice
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@Ray Davis haha I thought I was the only one bugging the sccm guy. It’s like I have my own little empire.
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Haha
Same here.
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