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Intune Day 2025 TCSMUG had its fastest sellout in history (we go back to 2008) with Intune Day. Several of you didn't show (shame on you as there was a wait list!). The crowd stayed all day right until the end and then stayed and ch…
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TCSMUG recapped MMS 2024 Flamingo Edition. You can get the slide deck here. Nodrin's notes from the meeting regarding the Win 10 not updating issue he presented: DID THE CLIENT REBOOT? Make sure it can scan and knows it needs update WindowsUpdate.log UpdatesDeplopyment.log Update th…
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Mike's slides are here. Waiting from others for theirs. Download
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Steve Jesok came and repeated a session he did at MMS in Miami about the 20 things he learned using CM in a large environment. MMS 2023 Miami Beach Edition: 20 Things I Learned Managing a Large Mic... (sched.com) We'll post his slides here as soon as we get them. We had a good talk during and af…
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TCSMUG August 2023 Here is a shot of Fabian Rodriguez speaking for the first time. A real pro! We love to see our attendees speak at TCSMUG. Many future MMS speakers and MVPs came from TCSMUG. Fabian spoke on the 5 things he wish he had known about Intune before starting on Intune. The…
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An epic day at TCSMUG where the top OSD guys in the world assembled for a day of OSD and task sequence sessions. I doubt we can ever top it. No, it wasn't recorded and wasn't held online. It was an in-person event intended to get people to meet face to face (yes, we love working remotely, bu…
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20 people signed up and maybe 16 showed. Two attendees won tickets to MMS from Patch My PC which was fun. Brian spoke on Windows 11 UUP updating. His main concern was the ask to not expire updates for 6 months. That isn't set in stone and you might be OK with 3. Depends how good your patching is…
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We went over 1910 changes last night. Bookmark the next two links and read the third link. Ryan actually figured out how to make CMPivot work last night without the need of the default scope so check his blog on how to do that if you're a big RBAC user. What’s new in 1910 Latest TP Ryan&…
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As soon as we get Vintzel's slide deck, we'll post it here. Here are the two queries I showed at during the O365 Readiness part of the session. You can use these in SRS once on 1906 to get data similar to what the Readiness Dashboard shows in the console: SELECT OMA.Name, OMA.Issue, OMA.Sever…
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I don't think we took notes, but we do have these slides.
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Notes taken by Andre Dupre (thanks!) Presentation by Ryan Ephgrave Presentation Link: https://www.ephingadmin.com/cmscripts-presentation/#1 CMScripts What and Why? CMScripts are great! And powerful (and a bit dangerous). One advantage is you never need to be local admin on these machines…
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Once again, many thanks to Andre Dupre for taking notes. Really nice job and very appreciated. Keep your modern desktop current with Desktop Analytics by Deepam Dubey Why did Microsoft build Analytics? Typically when enterprises adopt windows they'd spend years validating all of their apps…
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Notes from Andre Dupre - (thank you!) IoT and AI Bernard Carter (now micro) IT Pros don't have to be developers …but, scripting/computational thinking is essential to automation. Incremental, small changes over time are recommended. No shame in starting with samples or pre-exis…
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Not sure if anyone took notes that day, but we do have the PDF files from Bob for his two sessions. Download Here
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Notes taken by MNSCUG Attendee Andre Dupre Update Strategies Review Packaging vs Patching Flexera - sponsor Let's try something different than a demo Strategies that orgs are using to address vulnerabilities Focused on whole life-cycle of software (buy, manage, secure, retire) Majo…
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Notes taken by Andre Dupre Slides HERE Modern Driver and BIOS Management Modern Driver Management (MDM) https://www.scconfigmgr.com/modern-driver-management/ Dynamic driver detection Vendors Dell, Lenovo, HP and Microsoft Fujitsu coming soon Operation modes Bare metal, OS U…
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Thanks to Andre Dupre for taking notes! Custom CM Data Collection, Usage and Reporting WMI properties can do a lot more than just storing data (properties, methods, etc) but we're just going to focus on data/properties. Mark Cochrane's RegkeyToMOF is a good way, you can also Powershell. Do…
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Workflows + Managing Risk = Automation! Notes taken by Andy Kreienkamp, edited by Brian Mason Updated with link to slides Topics: Secure Communication, Client Health, Server Groups, and Data Warehousing   How to secure SCCM communication on TLS 1.2? PKI architecture...start by asking wha…
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Thanks to Andy Kreienkamp for taking notes! Top two reasons businesses have adopted windows 10 quickly: Security Recruiting younger employees, actually it was hardware (not finding old stuff for Win7). Our windows responsibility used to be make a Golden Image and get it out (B&C). Bu…
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Next month: A Taste of MMS – all day OpsMgr Agenda: Vote for President and Vice President. Winners to be ratified by board before the end of the year. Winners to start in January. Special thanks to Fred Bainbridge for 2 outstanding years of his presidency. Thanks to Joe Kaster for his year…
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Next month we'll hold elections.  If you are interested in helping or running for P or VP email us at info@mnscug.org  Brian – SQL 2016 Update – prep – tips tricks • SQL 2016 – support for CM CB (1606) • System Center will support SQL 2016 once rele…
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Thanks to Parallels for their session and sponsorship and to Garth for taking time away from home! Here are the meeting notes Fred took: Garth Jones was our main speaker and Parallels sponsored (Silver)    Parallels -  What happens with your macs?  Either standup an enti…
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Our August user group meeting will be on Thursday, August 18th, 2016 from 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM at Microsoft's Edina HQ building - 2nd Floor. Please register in advance so we can get a proper count for food and drink. Food and drinks will be provided. Guest speaker Garth Jones (Enhansoft’s Chief Arch…
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Fred took these notes Notes from Kent's session: The server needs access to specific internet sites in order to get the 1602 upgrade. Make sure to preserve the account that was used to install 1511 / 1602.   Always enable cleanup in software updates.  No reason kent can…
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Sponsor - 1e renewed their Gold sponsorship again this year.  We thank them for their great support. Speakers: Mike Terrill, 1E and OSD guru (https://miketerrill.net/) MNSCUG PPT Ron Crumbaker, 1E, MS MVP Steve Rachui, Microsoft PFE (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/steverac/) MNSCUG PP…