Introduction to password hygiene Our ideas and knowledge about secure passwords have evolved over the last five years. In this post, I’ll talk about password hygiene and policies that may help you create stronger passwords and fortify the security in your environment. First, forget everything you’ve been taught about passwords. Second, it’s important to understand […]

Many of you are probably familiar with Shane and his amazing beard from our Thursday webcasts. You may not be as familiar, however, with Adam and Shawn, our two other founders who do more behind the scenes and help this great company tick. All three of our founders are pretty awesome and helped build what […]

What good are computers without an address and what good is a network without some automation? DHCP allows computers to automatically acquire an address without having to manually set it. DHCP is included as part of Windows’ Server and offers a nicer set of features over a standard wireless router. To start, navigate to the […]

How to Set Up DNS In this post, we’ll show you how to set up DNS since it is a very important part of what makes PDQ Deploy and PDQ Inventory tick.  For this guide, we’ll assume that you’ll be using Window DNS and that the role is already installed to whatever server will be your DNS […]

Hi there! Today I would like to show you my approach to installing the PDQ Inventory Agent through PDQ Deploy. First, a quick disclaimer: the Agent is still new and has some scaling issues. Deploy it slowly and monitor the performance of your Inventory instance. If you start to notice issues, uninstall a few Agents. […]

With Halloween around the corner, we thought it would be cool to share some of our favorite spine-chilling, bone-rattling, hair standing on end, films with you. I took the initiative to ask our team about their go-to horror movies and which ones they would recommend. Who knew that we have an office full of horror […]

Hey guys, Colby here! If you missed my last blog post about my first three favorite keyboards, you can check it out here. I briefly talked about my iKBC MF108, PFU HHKB Pro 2, and Keyboardio Model 01 keyboards and why I like them. Today, I thought I would start out with a little bit of keyboard humor, “I just […]

Hey guys! Thanks for taking a minute to be a part of our PDQ.com Boot Camp series. If you’re a new IT professional or just new to PDQ.com, this post is sure to help ease your stress levels a bit. Today we’ll break down the steps necessary for creating a new domain controller. Set a […]

Hello, Colby here! I’m a computer keyboard collector and enthusiast. I mostly collect mechanical keyboards, but I have a few non-mechanical ones as well. A friend of mine introduced me to mechanical keyboards in college, sometime around 2012 I believe. I typed a little bit on his Razer BlackWidow with Cherry MX Blue switches and […]