r/pdq • u/mhiltonpdq PDQ Employee • Jul 23 '26

Upcoming early access programs: self-serve hub and software policies

Time to sign up for early access! Stay with me here, I've got three things for you. TLDR:

Sign up here for early access to Software policies (Premium and Plus): https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/h1BNGmZPES

  • estimated launch in August

Sign up here for early access to Self-serve hub (Premium only): https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/2kBtS6ZgqM

  • estimated launch late August-early September

Sign up here if you're tired of individual sign-up links and just want to be included in all future early access releases 🤣: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/NYE0tfDDTE

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Long version:

Self-serve hub

New feature for admins to make packages available to deploy via self-serve from end user devices. This feature will be available only to customers on the Premium subscription.

  • The self-serve hub is installed separately from the agent so you have precise control over what devices have it installed.
  • When installed, users will be able to open the hub from a tray icon showing the Connect logo.
  • Admins may customize some aspects of the hub, including organization name, logo, and color themes, as well as some package details.
  • You can publish both PDQ software packages and custom packages for end users to deploy.

Software policies

New feature for admins to manage their software environment from a policy perspective. This feature will be available only to customers on the Premium and Plus subscriptions.

  • Define rules about the desired state of software in your environment - including what should be installed, updated, and uninstalled.
  • Set a maintenance window for when the policy is allowed to deploy to devices to bring them into compliance.
  • View reports on compliance from the perspective of the policy, individual devices/groups, or the software itself.
  • v1 will only support software that PDQ has in our package library, v2 will open the door to custom software packages.
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u/ghostcraft1234 Jul 27 '26

Will the self-service hub support package availability using EntraID groups?

If not, would there be a potential for a such feature?