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Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – August 2020
Welcome to the Recast Endpoint Management Recap, August 2020 by Gary Blok
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Stay up-to-date on Configuration Manager, Systems Management, Right Click Tools, and more.
Systems Management
Recast’s ConfigMgr Community Influencer Highlights – Maurice Daly
In this second installment of our ConfigMgr community highlights, I had the opportunity to have the MVP Maurice Daly (@modaly_it) participate. I've known Maurice for many years now, as one of my projects at my former company was starting to cross paths with a project Maurice was just releasing initial versions.
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What’s new in Right Click Tools: July Release Roundup
Here’s a quick summary of the new features added and bugs fixed in Right Click Tools for July. Each month we will provide a full recap of what’s new and each quarter we will publish a series of deep dives of all the big new features you’ve been asking for.
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Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – July 2020
Welcome to the Recast Endpoint Management Recap, July 2020 by Gary Blok
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What’s new in Right Click Tools: June Release Roundup
Here’s a quick summary of the new features added, and bugs fixed in Right Click Tools for June. Each month we will provide a full recap of what’s new and each quarter we will publish a series of deep dives of all the big new features you’ve been asking for.
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Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – June 2020
Welcome to the Recast Endpoint Management Recap, June 2020 by Gary Blok
ConfigMgr
Recast’s ConfigMgr Community Influencer Highlights – Donna Ryan
In this Highlight series, we'll be covering stories from community influencers who have created tools or process that have greatly impacted the community.
Endpoint Insights
Find User Name Data Within ConfigMgr – Pt 2
In my last blog post, I talked about the four […]
Endpoint Insights
Find User Name Data Within ConfigMgr – Pt 1
A lot has changed since my discussion a few years […]
Application Management and Patching
MSIX Readiness
Liquit Setup Commander 3.6, one of the core components of […]
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What’s new in Right Click Tools: May Release Roundup
Here’s a quick summary of the new features added, and bugs fixed in Right Click Tools for May. Each month we will provide a full recap of what’s new and each quarter we will publish a series of deep dives of all the big new features you’ve been asking for. Enterprise Customers can install the latest version by logging into your Portal Account.
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Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – May 2020
Thanks for joining me once again for the Recap, this month was busy with several cool announcements from Microsoft and some other announcements that just created busy work. Moving from Office 365 to Microsoft 365 and the update channel names which take effect in the next couple weeks (more about that later), to a new packaging tool winget. Microsoft is keeping busy while we're stuck at home.
Systems Management
Lessons Learned from Microsoft 365 Deployment with ConfigMgr: Part 4 – ConfigMgr Baseline
In this post I'm going to cover how we are using a ConfigMgr Baseline to control the user experience. I'm not suggesting everyone do it this way, but for us, we wanted to provide a good user experience, even to those on slow links, and make it look pretty while still looking legit, and native.
Systems Management
Lessons Learned from Microsoft 365 Deployment with ConfigMgr: Part 3 – Self Service Deployments
In this post I'm going to cover how we're doing our Self Service Deployments for the Microsoft 365 Apps. We're controlling it via Active Directory Group Membership.
Systems Management
Lessons Learned from Microsoft 365 Deployment with ConfigMgr: Part 2 – Changing Channels
We have setup 2 methods for channeling the Office Channel on devices. One that allows self-service via an application in the software center, and one that is forced via a baseline set on a collection.
Endpoint Insights
Turning Three Reports Into One Report
We recently added the Operating System (OS) report set to […]
Systems Management
Lessons Learned from Microsoft 365 Deployment with ConfigMgr: Part 1
Hey Team, thanks for reading through the Office 365 posts, hopefully at this point you've got a good grasp on the Office Setup Process, the Deployment Methods and the user experience. I happen to know a guy who has setup Office 365 Deployments in a rather large enterprise, and was faced with a few "opportunities".
Systems Management
Office 365 Deployment Series with ConfigMgr: Post 6 – Channel Info
Hey Team, Gary Blok here, I'm coming back after a few weeks and am now adding Channel Query Collections.