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Press Release: PDQ.com Acquires SmartDeploy

Heidi Flaig Customers, Press Releases and News, Product Updates

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – PDQ.com, a leading provider of IT asset management software, announced today its acquisition of SmartDeploy, an industry leader in remote computer management. The acquisition of Seattle-based SmartDeploy comes just months after PDQ.com acquired SimpleMDM, further enhancing PDQ’s value proposition to the broader IT community by making device management easier from

4 Nov

New Minor Release: SmartDeploy 3.0.1020, Win 11 Support

Spencer Dunford Product Updates

Note: View information about the latest SmartDeploy version and release history at www.smartdeploy.com/product-releases. With Microsoft’s recent release of Windows 11, it’s no surprise that many of our customers are eager to check it out for themselves. So far, most customers are testing internally with their IT teams before rolling out to end users, which we

25 Oct

How to hire or fire a remote employee with SmartDeploy

Heidi Flaig Customers, Tips & How To's

After more than a year of social distancing, quarantining, and working from home, some companies are slowly returning to the office, but many others are moving towards a permanently remote workforce. As times have proven to continuously change, it may be the same story for your staff. Has your company growth led to hiring new

17 Sep

Windows 11 release date and requirements

Glenn Bristol Imaging Best Practices, Microsoft Windows

Windows 11 hardware requirements solidified In this summer-ending episode, Brad and Aaron bid each other farewell – Brad is moving on to another position in the Windows app space, and Aaron will be continuing the Enterprise Dish podcast with another host at a time yet to be determined. I never spoke to Brad myself, but

6 Aug

Q&A: Maximizing your school’s COVID relief funds for IT

Heidi Flaig Imaging Best Practices, Microsoft Windows

Using CARES Act funding to manage 1:1 student computers Managing a school’s IT strategy, security, and infrastructure is no walk in the park even in the most pedestrian of times – which makes tackling this through a pandemic something entirely herculean. Tell you something you don’t know, right? To again tell you something you likely

28 Jul

SmartDeploy 3.0: Under the Hood

Glenn Bristol Customers, Press Releases and News, Product Updates

Over the last 18 months, our engineering team has moved quickly and adapt to the changing demands of today’s hybrid work environments, particularly for large enterprises who have had to drastically scale up the number of endpoints and employees working from outside of their corporate networks. We are pleased to share our first major version

13 Jul

New Major Release: SmartDeploy 3.0.1000

Spencer Dunford Press Releases and News, Product Updates

We are excited to announce a new major version release, SmartDeploy 3.0.1000! This has been an extensive project to undertake for the team and we are eager to get more customers upgraded to this new platform. Some of you were able to attend our January 2021 customer webcast where we gave you a sneak peek

25 Jun

What’s in Windows 11?

Glenn Bristol Microsoft Windows, Press Releases and News

This week’s Enterprise Dish podcast was like an out-of-control IT freight train, bringing news so fast that it is literally outdated by the time I have a chance to write about it. Even Aaron’s small talk about the weather – lamenting a heatwave sweeping the rest of the country but sparing Seattle – is out-of-date

5 Nov

Use Norton Ghost for what it is good at, backup.

Spencer Dunford Competitors, Customers, Imaging Best Practices

Updated November 5, 2020: This blog post was published years ago, but people are still finding and reading it, so we’ll keep it here. Although Norton Ghost is now gone, the main idea holds true for the other disk-cloning systems that replace it—namely, these cloning solutions may be just what you need for backup, but

23 Oct

The difference between file-based and sector-based imaging

Spencer Dunford Imaging Best Practices

Before choosing an imaging and deployment solution, you might want to take a peek under the hood. File-based imaging and sector-based imaging both have their uses. Understanding the differences can help you use the tools most efficiently.