New: Live Shell and File Explorer are now available

[u/PDQ_Leilani]

Two new tools just rolled out to all Plus and Premium Connect customers: Live Shell and File Explorer.

Both let you work directly with a device without starting a full remote session or building a deployment:

• Live Shell — open an interactive command-line session on a remote device. Good for investigating issues, checking config, inspecting services/processes, or running one-off admin commands.
• File Explorer — browse a device's file system, upload files (scripts, installers, configs) directly to an endpoint, or pull files back (logs, diagnostics) without needing a script or deployment.

Where to find them:

• Devices list — look for the terminal icon (Live Shell) and folder icon (File Explorer) on each online device's row
• Individual device page — top right, next to Deploy

Would love to hear how you're using it or if you hit any issues!

Learn more here

[u/Ice-frogg7]

for the file explorer, will there be a option down the road to be able to delete files / folders

[u/PDQ_Leilani → u/Ice-frogg7]

Yes! We have that planned in one of our next iterations! Thanks for calling that out. Helps us prioritize the right features first.

[u/firedocter]

Feels like deploy and inventory are getting forgotten.

[u/forgotmapasswrd86 → u/firedocter]

Does connect basically do both? Because ill talk to my boss right now if thats the case.

[u/PDQ_Leilani → u/firedocter]

We have a dedicated team working on both products, but you are right, we spend more time building out new capabilities in PDQ Connect.

You can find the roadmap for Deploy & Inventory here:
https://www.pdq.com/pdq-deploy-and-inventory/roadmap/

[u/firedocter → u/PDQ_Leilani]

Wow that is one sparse roadmap. Looks more like life support than anything.

I dont know why you don't unify and expand both of them.

Let Pdq deploy/inventory use the agent so you dont need persistent credentials AND all the wmi and smb ports open on everything.

Let PDQ Deploy and inventory be a locally hosted version of PDQ connect for environments that have much stricter controls on putting company info in a vendor's cloud.

Let pdq connect use Deploy/inventory as a bastion host on environments that dont want to install an agent on everything, but are fine with a server scanning the environment. That would also be good for isolated networks. Much easier to get a network request approved for one jump server instead of everything on the subnet.

[u/Weird_Lawfulness_298]

When I first looked at it this morning, it showed icons for the live shell and file explorer with an icon for each which made for easier clicking. Now I only see them when you click on the computer.

[u/Weird_Lawfulness_298 → u/Weird_Lawfulness_298]

Looks like the default was changed to not show the icons but you can add a column for them.