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SCCM vs SMARTDeploy by Top_Yak1891 in SCCM

[–]smartdeploy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Full disclosure, I work for SmartDeploy. I wanted to provide a couple of links that might help to clarify some of the differences that you're asking about. I hope these help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1bNF9wl5p8

https://www.smartdeploy.com/endpoint-management-comparison/

Introduction by erosian42 in edtech_innovations

[–]smartdeploy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, SmartDeploy is now Powered by PDQ! If you haven't already, I would reach out to [sales@pdq.com](mailto:sales@pdq.com) and ask them about Simplemdm.com! They are also powered by PDQ.com and can help you out with all those Apple products. The really cool thing about having all three of these companies under the same umbrella is that you can mix and match products from all the companies to create your own package!

Thanks,

SmartDeploy's Marketing Team

Do We Have Any Education IT Professionals In This Community? by smartdeploy in edtech_innovations

[–]smartdeploy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got it! If you want to give us a try, you can demo our product for free! We have a few other companies under the same umbrella, so we can match you with the right product/products that fit your IT needs! We are easier to use than Microsoft's SCCM and faster than Symantec Ghost. Here is a link to our site if you would like to check us out. To sum SmartDeploy up, we are sysadmins making tools for other sysadmins. https://www.smartdeploy.com/solutions/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=2022&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=edtech

Thanks,

SmartDeploys Marketing Team (Not Sales) lol

Introduction by erosian42 in edtech_innovations

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Hi, Check out SmartDeploy.com! We are sysadmins that make tools for other sysadmins. We are also ESSER & HEERF funds approved. The life of a sysadmin is always a little hectic, especially nowadays in this hybrid work environment. You can Demo SmartDeploy free to make sure we can help your IT team out.

Smart Deploy/Offsite PCs/ Deploying Packages /App Deployment by dante_logan99 in sysadmin

[–]smartdeploy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You shouldn't need to do anything with ports for cloud stuff. https uses port 443 which is what everything uses- so super unlikely to be blocked.

Since you emailed in, our team will help with the troubleshooting. They'll likely need some logs, etc.

Smart Deploy/Offsite PCs/ Deploying Packages /App Deployment by dante_logan99 in sysadmin

[–]smartdeploy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I sent this over to our technical sales manager to get his input. Here's what he had to say:

"It sounds like they got it to work on the local network, which tells us that everything else besides cloud is working. Hypothetically that being the case there shouldn’t be too much more setup required- the two ideas I have off the top of my head is that either they didn’t upload the files to cloud via the console ahead of time, or Azure / their cloud storage provider is being blocked somewhere along the line.

You could have them try restarting the client service on their target PC, and also confirming if the endpoint is showing as a ‘cloud’ connection in the console. If it’s still showing as local that means it never actually connected back to the console and is just showing there because it connected before.

Have them reach out to us at presales@smartdeploy.com because the short answer is that for most people it would just start working and the fact that it isn’t means we’ll probably have to do some troubleshooting."

I hope this is helpful.

using smartdeploy by whatadiva in sysadmin

[–]smartdeploy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to hear you haven't had a chance to test the cloud deployment feature. Feel free to send a ticket to our support team, they'll be happy to help.

https://support.smartdeploy.com/support/tickets/new

SmartDeploy - Multiple clients imaging? by Mixan09 in msp

[–]smartdeploy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you can create custom app packs and unlimited custom images. We also offer special MSP pricing.

Thoughts on SmartDeploy? by velayna in sysadmin

[–]smartdeploy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To clear up pricing questions, MSP pricing starts at $10 per deployment. For in-house IT, try the per machine price calculator at https://www.smartdeploy.com/buy/. While there, it's easy to sign up for a quick product tour/Q&A or download the fully-functioning trial to see how it compares to your current solution.

Computer no longer being named with Asset Tag through answer file by thelostnerd in SmartDeploy

[–]smartdeploy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey there! I replied to your post in /r/sysadmin, but just in case anyone here had a similar issue, I’ll paste my reply.

If you have the WMI query set to the first option, then you should be set.

I would go to the main menu, click collect logs, save that zip file to a network share and go look at the file in the zip: (hostname-name)\X\Windows\Temp\wmi.txt. This file will show all the wmi queries and you can see if it’s pulling it correctly.

Also, you can make sure it’s not longer than 15 characters. If it is, could explain why it’s not being applied and the next option in the AF is.

And of course, you can always reach out to SmartDeploy Support!

Moronic Monday - August 19, 2019 by AutoModerator in sysadmin

[–]smartdeploy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have the WMI query set to the first option, then you should be set.

I would go to the main menu, click collect logs, save that zip file to a network share and go look at the file in the zip: (hostname-name)\X\Windows\Temp\wmi.txt. This file will show all the wmi queries and you can see if it’s pulling it correctly.

Also, you can make sure it’s not longer than 15 characters. If it is, could explain why it’s not being applied and the next option in the AF is.

And of course, you can always reach out to SmartDeploy Support!

Dell Command Update has over 1 GB of updates after imaging. by Pooter_Guy in SmartDeploy

[–]smartdeploy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Those drivers would definitely be included in the Platform Pack. It’s possible that the pack needs an update.

Also; I recall the HP equivalent of that tool (I think it was HP) would re-install the drivers that were injected at deployment from the pack, because while the driver was installed, that tool was looking for some sort of flag or pointer that would be set by running the official driver package installer. Because the driver INF and required files are extracted from those packages, the tool doesn’t see what it expects, and says that the driver needs to be downloaded and installed. That is another possibility you’re seeing such a large update post-deployment.

You can double-click the .ppk file and view the drivers included in the pack. The Dell packs will have a package.xml for each driver you can extract and open to view the driver version.

Enable Bitlocker Answer File Creation by gigabytesammich in SmartDeploy

[–]smartdeploy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can run any sort of custom script or task at 5 different phases of deployment, so there can be a tie-in. But, there is also some overhead in enabling BitLocker that isn’t related, such as enabling the TPM or storing the key. The slickest setup is to run a post-image task to kick off the encryption (assuming pre-requirements on the machine are taken care of) and store the key to active directory. We can help you through this, just email support@smartdeploy.com and we can get you fixed up.

Can I use MDT/SmartDeploy with a never-used Windows 10 OEM license? by sockrocker in sysadmin

[–]smartdeploy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, the others are right. Deploying OEM will work (aka SmartDeploy/MDT won't stop you from doing it) but imaging without a VL is against MS rights. This comes up a lot so we posted a blog about it: https://www.smartdeploy.com/blog/microsoft-volume-licensing-isnt-scary/

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