NWSCUG – May 19th, 2023!

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**Note – our meeting on Friday May 19th will be ONLINE only (don’t show up at the Microsoft Office in Bellevue).

Join us Friday, May 19th ONLINE for NWSCUG! We have great sessions by Rudy, Scott, Mike, and Adaptiva.

10:00 – 11:00 – Rudy’s Tips and Tricks – Rudy Bankson

11:15 – 12:15 – Intune Assignments, Grouping, Filtering and More – Scott Duffey

12:15 – 1:00 – Lunch and MMS Recap – Sponsored by Adaptiva

1:00 – 2:00 – Forever change the way you patch third-party applications – Adaptiva

2:15 – 3:15 – Intune Policy – Past, Present and Future – Mike Danowski

Rudy’s Tips and Tricks – Our very own Rudy Bankson will share many of his tips, as well as some newly learned tricks from MMSMOA.

Intune Assignments, Grouping, Filtering and More – We’ll talk about some of the most important and complex Intune features across grouping, targeting, filtering, reporting. This session will give you insight that you will be able to immediately apply in your day job to further understand what Intune is doing behind the scenes and why certain operations are fast and others take time. We’ll deep dive on important concepts and cover the past, present and future innovation product direction.

Forever change the way you patch third-party applications – Join Chaz Spahn to learn how Adaptiva Autonomous Patch is changing the game when it comes to patching third-party applications. Autonomous Patch provides real-time visibility, patch automation through easily configured patch strategies thanks to a no-code drag-and-drop designer, limitless patch distribution, an ever-growing library of metadata from a dedicated metadata team, and more.

Intune Policy – Past, Present and Future – We’ll look at the history of policy in Intune and how it drove us to where we are today. We’ll also discuss the implementation of the settings catalog and how its unworldly power will allow us to achieve standardization across the entire policy management experience. Come ask questions and learn about policy in Intune!

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NWSCUG – April 21st, 2023 – MVP Edition!

The MVP Global Summit wraps up on April 20th, and Johan, Kim and Tom agreed to hang out and present at our meeting on the 21st. And Patch My PC is sponsoring!

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10:00 – 11:00 – Learning Windows Autopilot – Johan Arwidmark

11:15 – 12:15 – Practical PowerShell for ConfigMgr Operations and Troubleshooting – Johan Arwidmark

12:15 – 1:00 – Lunch and User Group Discussion

1:00 – 2:00 – WUfB Deployment Service in Less than 60 Minutes or Your Money Back! – Bryan Dam

2:15 – 3:15 – WDAC for AppLocker Admins – Kim Oppalfens and Tom Degreef

3:15 – 3:30 – Microsoft Defender for Endpoint – stop attacks and secure endpoint devices. – Ashok Ghosh

Learning Windows Autopilot

Join Johan Arwidmark for a technical refresher on Windows Autopilot. In this demo-intensive session you learn to setup, evaluate, and troubleshoot Windows Autopilot scenarios for your organization.

Practical PowerShell for ConfigMgr Operations and Troubleshooting

In this session, you learn to use PowerShell to improve the health of your ConfigMgr Infrastructure, and to use PowerShell for your operations and troubleshooting tasks.

WDAC for AppLocker Admins

Windows Defender Application Control is the latest enterprise application control technology addition by Microsoft. This year is the second decade after this technology was first added to a server operating system. In this session we’ll talk you through setting up WDAC starting from a popular AppLocker (The other app control technology built-in to the OS) implementation.

WUfB Deployment Service in Less than 60 Minutes or Your Money Back!

In yet another bout of pure insanity, I will attempt a world record for explaining the true brilliance of the WUfB Deployment Service. My latest attempt failed at the 2-hour mark so come fully prepared to make history.  What is it, what it can do, and why you’ll come to love it.  All this and more!

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NWSCUG – January 20th, 2023 – IN PERSON!

Join us Friday, January 20th IN PERSON for our first event of 2023!

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9:00 – 9:40 – Unofficial Gathering at Woods Coffee (1st floor of Lincoln Square)

10:00 – 11:00 – Packaging, Back to the Basics – Rudy Bankson

11:15 – 12:15 – Hardening the security posture of your multi-cloud environments and workloads using MS Defender – Ashok Ghosh

12:15 – 12:45 – Lunch and User Group Discussion

12:45 – 1:45 – Digging into Windows 11 on ARM64 – Michael Niehaus

2:00 – 3:00 – Building a custom Logic App Connector – Greg Ramsey

3:30 – Moderated discussion

Packaging, Back to the Basics

Rudy is going back to the basics! What makes a smooth application packaging and deployment process? How can you save time with automation? How can you future proof? Join us for some Rudy wisdom!

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