One of the things I really like is that PDQ Inventory includes out-of-the-box many of the very useful collections that you would have to otherwise build from scratch. PDQ Deploy works with PDQ Inventory in that it uses the collections created in Inventory as the groupings it can use to actually deploy software. PDQ Deploy on the other hand is the vehicle to actually deploy software in your environment. This gives you tremendous visibility into the software and application landscape as it exists in your environment. It can discover various forms of software that are installed, including third-party applications, machine details including hardware resources, as well as things like “needs a reboot”. Think of the PDQ Inventory tool as a discovery tool of sorts that allows combing through your environment and cataloging many different things about your resources. In case you are wondering, both programs work in tandem with each other. Apply the patches to a collection of servers identified by PDQ Inventory using PDQ Deploy.Discover Windows servers in need of updates.

In the below, walk through, I will be using the Enterprise version of PDQ Inventory and Deploy to do the following: They are both pay for utilities, but do have a free version of the programs with a few limitations. PDQ Inventory and Deploy are two very powerful utilities developed by PDQ.com.

How can you automate Windows patching without WSUS Server and do this effectively? In case you have not heard about or seen PDQ Inventory or PDQ Deploy in action, let’s take a closer look at these two very effective and easy tools and see how to deploy Windows Updates with PDQ Deploy. If you don’t have the required patches installed, this can lead to a very dangerous security vulnerabilities in your environment.Īlso, using WSUS server feels antiquated and can be very finicky. Many of the breaches that occur capitalize on known security vulnerabilities that are in the wild and already patched.

However, as has recently been shown with numerous security scares already to start out 2020, patching your systems is one of the most important tasks that you need to make sure you do often. If you are like me, keeping your hosts updated can be one of the most cumbersome and tedious tasks that you have to carry out in your environment.

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