Northwest System Center User Group

NWSCUG – May 17th Sponsored by Patch My PC!

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Greg Ramsey

Greetings NWSCUG! We’re looking forward to seeing you on May 17th! We have some stellar sessions lined up, and Patch My PC is our Sponsor.

10:00 – 11:00 – Windows Autopatch Groups: The Flexible Way to Control Update Cadence for Your Organization – Nate Nielson

11:15 – 12:15 – Advanced Endpoint and Vulnerability Management Ashok Ghosh and Nick Cordova

12:15 – 1:00 – Lunch and MMS Recap

1:00 – 2:00 – Seamless Updates Unleashed: Patch My PC’s Automation Magic with Kyle

2:15 – 3:15 – Patching Servers with Azure Arc – Hailey Phillips and Steven Hosking!

Windows Autopatch Groups: The Flexible Way to Control Update Cadence for Your Organization – In this session, we will discuss how you can leverage Windows Autopatch Groups to replicate your organizational structures while also having the ability to have custom cadence controls in place that work for your users and devices.

Seamless Updates Unleashed: Patch My PC’s Automation Magic with Kyle –
Join Kyle as he demonstrates the current solution offerings from Patch My PC. He will show you how to automate third-party application updates and application packaging in Microsoft Configuration Manager and Intune. Additionally, we will cover deep end-to-end reporting with our Advanced Insights reporting and dashboard solution, perhaps giving you a taste of things to come as well.

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Reminder! Register for our Friday Meeting!

Posted on March 12, 2024 by Greg Ramsey

Greetings NWSCUG! Here’s a friendly reminder for our meeting on Friday. Please register – we hope to see you in person in Bellevue, but if not, we’ll catch you on Teams!

Greg

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NWSCUG – March 15th – Sponsored by 2Pint!

Posted on February 9, 2024 by Greg Ramsey

Greetings NWSCUG! No need to Beware the ides of March here – we have a fantastic lineup of speakers! Special thanks to our new sponsor, 2Pint Software!

10:00 – 11:00 – Follow the White Rabbit – Johan Arwidmark

11:15 – 12:15 – FAFO about 2Pint

12:15 – 1:00 – Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 – Off to Never, Never Land – Mike Terrill

2:15 – 3:15 – Endpoint Privilege Management Deep Dive – Anton Varshavkiy

Follow the White Rabbit – In this session – besides the obvious Matrix reference – you will learn what’s going on behind the scenes during OS Deployment of Windows 11. Bare metal deployments as well as Inplace upgrades (aka servicing). You will learn about the Windows Setup Engine, the various Setup Passes, Unattend.xml files, and how WinPE and other Windows ADK Features maps to ConfigMgr OSD.

FAFO about 2Pint – Round table with Andreas Hammarskjöld, Johan Arwidmark, Mike Terrill, Michael Niehaus

Come join us to hear tales from the front lines of product development at 2Pint Software. This is casual and relaxed and we’ll be telling you all about our latest research findings and roadmap for product development. Come on and settle in for a session of lively conversation and behind-the-scenes demos from the folks at 2Pint Software. You never know what you might learn! We might even have a release of a new software products up our sleeve!

What you will learn:

What does 2Pint software do?
What is 2Pint Software cooking in their labs?
What craziness are 2Pint Software’s customers up to?
Will the future be bright or not?

Off to Never, Never Land – WinPE, WinRE, disk partitions, join domain service account(s) and why all of it matters today. In this session you will learn about why you should care about these items and how they can impact your environment. Learn how to correctly configure/manage each so that they do not bite at the worst possible time.

Endpoint Privilege Management Deep Dive – Anton is one of the lead developers on the Intune team, and is going to go deep! He will also go into troubleshooting, as well as be ready for any of your ‘why’ or ‘how’ questions for both Intune and ConfigMgr.

Microsoft MVP Johan is a consultant, instructor, speaker and author. He is an all-around geek specializing in Systems Management and Enterprise Deployment Solutions. Johan is a Technical Fellow at Mirolus and 2Pint Software, but this blog, its content and opinions are his own. You can reach Johan on Twitter: @jarwidmark, or connect with him via LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/jarwidmark

Microsoft MVP Mike is a Principal Engineer at 2Pint Software, specializing in the design and implementation of operating system deployments, operating system upgrades, peer-to-peer, bandwidth management, and PXE solutions as they related to various systems management platforms (Configuration Manager/Intune). His career has been focused on systems management and operating system deployment for over 26 years and is a Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Mobility since 2016. He also runs the Arizona Systems Management User Group.