NWSCUG – November 20th – Spec-Driven Development, Agentic Security, and AI Show & Tell!

Greetings NWSCUG! We’re looking forward to seeing you on Friday, November 20th! We hope to see you in person in Bellevue, but we’ll stream on Teams too.

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Agenda

10:00 – 11:00 – Spec-Driven Development for Endpoint Admins: Building Intune Tooling with AI Agents You Can Trust – Greg Ramsey

AI coding agents will happily write your Intune automation for you — the question is whether you’d let the output near production. In this practitioner-level session, Greg walks through what he’s learning applying the spec → plan → build loop to endpoint management: Intune tooling that reads through Microsoft Graph with delegated, least-privilege auth and no secrets. Honest work-in-progress framing, with discussion and Q&A.

11:15 – 12:15 – Security Essentials for Intune Admins – Rudy Bankson

Being an Intune administrator means more than managing devices and deploying policies. It also means protecting the administrative controls that can impact your entire endpoint environment. In this session, we’ll cover the essential security capabilities every Intune admin should understand, including Multi-Admin Approval, Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Conditional Access, Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM), and Intune Remote Help. Through practical examples and demonstrations, you’ll learn how to reduce risk, secure privileged access, and strengthen your organization’s endpoint security posture without sacrificing productivity.

12:15 – 1:15 – Lunch

1:15 – 2:15 – Agentic Security: A Community Discussion – Ashok Ghosh

AI agents now act with real access to identities, data, and cloud — which makes every adoption decision a trust decision. Ashok brings perspectives from Microsoft and his recent research on securing the agentic enterprise, and wants to explore the topic with the audience. Bring your questions and what’s working — or not — in your environment. Discussion format.

2:30 – 3:30 – AI Show & Tell – facilitated by Greg Ramsey

Open mic: bring what you’re actually doing with AI — a Copilot workflow, an agent experiment, a script, a win, a failure. Short demos, honest stories, all levels welcome.

If you’d like to present (in-person or remote), submit here!

And remember, we have a lot of content on our YouTube channel!

Greg

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NWSCUG – See you in November!

We’re taking a break for September. Stay tuned for information about our November meeting.

Greg

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NWSCUG for July 17 2026 – Endpoint Privilege Management, 3rd Party Patching – Sponsored by Patch My PC!

Join us in person or online – we’ll be back at our regular meeting location (MTC Bellevue).

Join us this Friday, July 17th as Mike Danoski takes us through deploying Endpoint Privilege Management with Intune! Patch My PC will also be presenting a session on 3rd party patching. (We’re working on a 3rd session, and/or we’ll have open discussion after lunch). We hope to see you in Bellevue, but if you can’t, join us on Teams.

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM – Third-Party Patching Is Still a Mess (And Attackers Know It) – Melissa @ Patch My PC

11:15 AM – 12:15 PM – Deploying Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) with Microsoft Intune – Mike Danoski

12:15 PM – 1:00 PM – Lunch – Sponsored by Patch My PC

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM – Ask Me Anything: Windows Driver Servicing – ⁠Garrett Duchesne and ⁠Andy Rivas

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM – From Update Readiness to Fleet Optimization: What’s Next for Windows Device Health – Harman Thind

Third-Party Patching Is Still a Mess (And Attackers Know It)

Third-party patching isn’t glamorous, but getting breached because your browser was 27 days out of date is even less glamorous.

Join Melissa for a fast-moving session on the chaos, complexity, and occasional absurdity of third-party patching at enterprise scale.

This session digs into why modern patching workflows are breaking under the weight of endless app updates, shrinking exploit windows, hybrid environments, and “we’ll get to it next week” security culture. The team will unpack real-world examples of vulnerable software slipping through the cracks, why attackers love the “long tail” of unmanaged apps, and how IT teams can stop playing whack-a-mole with packaging, testing, deployment, and compliance reporting.

Expect practical strategies, sharp observations from the front lines of endpoint management, and a few uncomfortable truths about manual patching workflows in 2026.

If your environment currently runs on heroics, caffeine, and someone named Brandon manually packaging apps at 11 PM… this session is for you.

Deploying Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) with Microsoft Intune

This session covers how to deploy and operationalize Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) in Intune. We’ll walk through policy setup, elevation rules, and real-world deployment patterns that enable standard users to run approved processes without local admin rights. I’ll also share lessons learned, common pitfalls, and how EPM fits into a broader least-privilege strategy.

From Update Readiness to Fleet Optimization: What’s Next for Windows Device Health
A discussion on how Microsoft is evolving from update readiness and remediation toward broader device health, performance, and fleet optimization experiences, and what enterprise IT teams need most from the next generation of Windows management tools.

We look forward to having you attend the event!

Where? Microsoft Technology Center

700 Bellevue Way NE

22nd Floor

Bellevue, WA 98004

Parking is FREE with validation. Just get a ticket in the garage (in Visitor parking, in the basement of the building), and the Microsoft front desk will validate your ticket when you check in on the 22nd floor.

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