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MS Endpoint Management – Patch Management Strategies – Part 3

Dujon Walsham — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 17:33:37 +0000

Introduction In the previous part we covered the topic of how we would look to structure out our collections, which is quite important for the foundation for this next area in which we are going to dive into which will be around Automatic Deployment Rule Structuring. Now creating Automatic Deployment Rules (ADR) is a very […]

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Microsoft Endpoint Management – Patch Management Strategies – Part Two: MECM – Patching Collections Structuring

Dujon Walsham — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:59:59 +0000

Introduction The next area we want to look into is now how we construct our collections for patching. Now many can utilise pre-existing collections which is fine if you are doing more of a generalist type of patch approach to hit all machines, but there are various areas of why you may not want to […]

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Microsoft Endpoint Management – Patch Management Strategies – Part 1: MECM – Health and Clean-up of Software Update Points

Dujon Walsham — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:56:35 +0000

Introduction Here we are again with a brand new series. I have made some articles and blogs in the past around this area but they were in several pieces, so I’m not only going to consolidate some of that information but also provide a basis on an end to end strategy which will indeed cover […]

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Leveraging Windows 11 Management Part 3 – Microsoft Endpoint Manager Management

Dujon Walsham — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 16:21:06 +0000

Introduction From the continuation of the previous part where we had covered all around Windows 11 readiness, this included an interesting overview on how we can look at the readiness across all the areas of Microsoft Endpoint Manager. Now in this part we want to expand this subject a little bit further but this time […]

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Leveraging Windows 11 Management

Dujon Walsham — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:28:26 +0000

Leveraging Windows 11 Management Posted on 1 Jun 2022 Part 1 – Migration Into Windows 11 Introduction This series will go through all the areas in which we can leverage Windows 11 management especially when we consider it on a cloud and security perspective. Even though we currently have the Windows 10 build versions still […]

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Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Autopilot – White Glove or Not? Part 5 – Third Party Options

Dujon Walsham — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:30:52 +0000

Introduction In the previous part of the series we talked about the average times it takes for endpoints to be onboarded into Intune when using Autopilot deployments and how they differ when using a non white gloved method and a white gloved method. The next part we are going to look into is the journey […]

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Copy Files from a Computer to Azure Files Over CMG

Matt Tinney — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 09:08:01 +0000

With many employees now working remote, the situation may arise where you need to copy files from a remote computer to a location where they can be accessed by IT staff. When a computer is not remote, this is usually done by just accessing the computer’s admin share, but this is not always possible when […]

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MEMCM: Set Component Log File Size

Matt Tinney — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 08:03:07 +0000

One common task that you might have to do in your environment is configure the log file size for the various MEMCM components (such as distmgr.log, wsyncmgr.log, etc.). These would be all of the logs on your primary site server that are in the <MEMCM install dir>\logs directory, or any server in which the “Component […]

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MEMCM: Move Data Warehouse

Matt Tinney — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 07:51:11 +0000

If you ever need to move your MEMCM data warehouse, it’s actually fairly easy. This blog post will walk you through the general process, and provide a method for making sure your new data warehouse point is syncing all your tables. I completed this post using MEMCM 2002 and migrated SQL Server from 2016 to […]

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Using SCUP to Create 3rd Party Updates: Exclude Updates from Computers

Matt Tinney — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 06:46:05 +0000

This post is part of an ongoing series about using SCUP to publish 3rd party updates in MEMCM. Previous posts on SCUP and 3rd party updates: With your workforce likely working from home under COVID-19 lockdown, it’s more important than ever to ensure that your patching is up-to-date, to include 3rd party updates. It’s not […]

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