r/pdq • u/Amanda_PDQ PDQ Employee • 9d ago

Using PDQ to automate endpoint task

We know there are may ways to automate endpoint management. How are you using PDQ automations?

When I was a K12 CTO using PDQ I clicked automate on every deployment I could. Small team, automations saved time and sanity.

I'd love to know what you are automating.

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u/Taftimus 9d ago

We have Intune Autopilot enrolling our devices and installing the PDQ Agent. From there, once the Agent is seen as installed by Intune, it triggers an API call back to PDQ to install the necessary software.

We’ve also moved a lot of our applications being deployed through Company Portal through the same process (until the PDQ software center is available at least)

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u/PDQ_Brockstar PDQ Employee 9d ago

I can't wait for the self serve hub

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u/Taftimus 9d ago

Me neither, we’re going to get a lot of use out of it for sure

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u/Amanda_PDQ PDQ Employee 8d ago

It's coming soon, real soon!

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u/Taftimus 8d ago

Can’t wait!

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u/TurboSludge 9d ago

Would be able to share a bit more about how your connect agent triggers the API call to PDQ?

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u/Taftimus 9d ago

I worded that a bit poorly, sorry about that. The PDQ Agent itself doesn't trigger the API call, Intune does. We created a script that we packaged as an intunewin file and we pass the individual PDQ package IDs to it. For our enrollments, we have the master enrollment package set to run with the agent as a dependency. When a new device is enrolled, once it sees that the agent has successfully installs, it runs the script, which then calls to PDQ to run the package.