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
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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