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Create package without uploading the installation file

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Thomas Schröder

Hi there,

any chance that PDQ Connect will have the same behaviour as the PDQ Deploy repository?

In the Deploy repository I can define that the installation file will be find at "\\some share onsite at the customer\foo.msi".

In Connect, I can't find such an option, I only have the option to upload the file I want to install. 

Uploading to the central PDQ Server/Cloud? And then the agents have to download the file before installing? I have 500+ systems across 50+ customer networks, where I have to update the same software. And the update package is already present in a share in each customer network.

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    Marcel Lipovsky

    HI Thomas,
    I suggest you do write a powershell script that when run on the client computer:
    a) checks if the installation file is available on the share
    b) copies the file to a local cache
    c) executes the installation as needed
    d) cleans the cache

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    Andrew Pla

    That's a good approach.

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    Marcel Lipovsky

    You are the powershell guy, you could post a sample of such script here. 😁

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    Thomas Schröder
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    Hi,

    thank you for the answer!

    But then I really don't need PDQ at all, correct? I already have a RMM system in place, which can also run custom ps scripts on the agents.

    PDQ Deploy is so much easier, faster and better, I was only waiting for an agent-version, as I don't have direct access (network, vpn) to all client systems.

    Cheers

    Thomas

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    Marcel Lipovsky

    Hello Thomas,

    the point for connect is to maintain computers that are outside of the local network anyway, so there is no reason to saturate your company's Internet connection by uploading packager over the VPN. The clients can pull those directly from from the Connect's web storage.

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    Thomas Schröder

    Hello Selfman,

    understood. But the clients already pulled those packages from the manufacturer's storage :).

    1 OEM => 500 Clients over different customers, all using the same software, downloading the same updates from the OEM's storage to a local storage

    With PDQ Deploy, I can setup different repositories telling the clients where to find their local copy of the update on their own local storage => works like a charme

    It also works via VPN (still using the local storage of the customer as starting point). 

    So now I am looking for something to get all the other customers running, where I don't have network or vpn connection, only TeamViewer or AnyDesk.

    I was hoping for the PDQ Connect agent version (with the same features, using local storage of each customer in a repository).

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