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Hey everyone! 👋
The Product team on Connect is taking a look at how we can make troubleshooting devices easier.

If you have a minute we would love to understand:

• How often do you access event logs? (Rarely, Sometimes, Daily)
• Are there any common reason you find yourself needing them?
• How do you access them for devices not on-prem?

Thank you in advance, your feedback helps us know what features to prioritize!

Does anyone else use PDQ Connect in an Intune environment for app deployment and patching?

We're demo'ing Connect at the moment and find it has some really useful features. What im interested in is if we deploy a package via Connect, but also have the application set as available in the Company Portal how detection is handled in Intune. Does Intune, when it inventories the device, detect the package that Connect deployed and mark it in an Installed state in Intune? Or does the user need to click the install button in the Company Portal for the app detection to run before it flags it as installed?

What im trying to avoid is deploying apps from Connect then having to set the same apps as required in the Company Portal which potentially could potentially cause a conflict.

Hey everyone! We're working to streamline how Connect handles Windows patching, and we're ready for you to get involved. Here's a quick look at how this is gonna play out:

Phase 1: A new interface for auditing Windows KBs and deploying updates to devices in bulk.

• Sure, you can technically do this today if you build the right groups, packages, reports, etc. but the goal here is to make it more visible and simpler to manage. (attached screenshots show an idea of the concepts)

We’re planning to open up Early Access in June, sign up here to if you want to try it out: https://forms.office.com/r/NpE9Y575D7

Phase 2: Policy-driven Windows patch automation.

• Instead of manually triggering deployments, you get to declare how Connect should manage patching and compliance. We’re exploring things like:

>Maintenance windows
Schedule based on Patch Tuesday
Reboots and deferrals
Deployment rings
Compliance reporting

We’re still gathering feedback on how this should work, if you'd like to contribute you can schedule time with us here: https://calendly.com/d/ct69-w8v-mjv/pdq-product-team-windows-os-patching

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All of a sudden, some PCs in my environment are showing that they have installed the latest update but PDQ is not showing them as on the latest version.

It appeards this is a fairly new feature that uses a different patch that will not require a reboot (which is good) but I now have no way to see what PCs are updated in PDQ Inventory.

I managed to create my own variable and manually map the patch to it but this is going to need to be manually updated every month as new updates are released.

Is PDQ going to be adding this to the existing "Cumulative Update (25H2)" group every month so I dont need to keep remembering to change this?

Hi PDQ folks, our office has been demo-ing PDQ, and we saw in a past thread that some complained about how packages for browsers like Firefox get updated through PDQ Connect, yet no longer allow auto-updates to occur/get disabled (https://www.reddit.com/r/pdq/comments/1bnmypm/baked\_in\_pdq\_connect\_firefox\_package\_disables/).

Do you know if there is a way around this or a set of prepared packages from you all that allow technicians to push out updates without restricting this auto-update feature? Or is it something that we will have to package on our own?

And are there any other popular software packages that do the same which we will need to watch out for?

Thanks, it's a good product you've got, it's just a pain point of ours.

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I have tried everything to get this connector to install on an Windows PC. Nothing appears to be working. The link is to the page where you can download it.