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ConfigMgr Community Tools Webinar Series
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ConfigMgr Community Tools Webinar Series

Hear from industry thought leaders, Recast developers, Microsoft MVPs, and community members with a live Q&A section after every webinar. From WIM files to Onevinn to BIOS to Cloud Imaging, these community experts show demos and go step-by-step to assist Right Click Tools Community Users to get the most from their ConfigMgr and Right Click Tools experience! Overcome roadblocks to your productivity and achieve significantly more within ConfigMgr with Community Tools. Join us as we deep dive into several popular Community Tools, presented by their well-known creators.

LAPS Dashboard: Bringing Visibility to an Overlooked Security Necessity
Recast Blog

LAPS Dashboard: Bringing Visibility to an Overlooked Security Necessity

LAPS is simple to setup, and greatly reduces a previously easily exploitable attach vector.

How to Use Right Click Tools in Your Complex Configuration Manager Environment 
Recast Blog

How to Use Right Click Tools in Your Complex Configuration Manager Environment 

How to Deploy Recast Agent and Right Click Tools with Application Manager
Recast Blog

How to Deploy Recast Agent and Right Click Tools with Application Manager

How to Use Recast Builder to Automate the Force Reinstall of ConfigMgr Clients
Recast Blog

How to Use Recast Builder to Automate the Force Reinstall of ConfigMgr Clients

Tips and Tricks: C$ and Collecting Log Files on a Remote Device 
Recast Blog

Tips and Tricks: C$ and Collecting Log Files on a Remote Device 

Automation Simplified with Recast Software
Recast Blog

Automation Simplified with Recast Software

SysAdmins have to deal with many repetitive tasks on their daily to-do list. They are often stuck doing the same tasks over and over again, while more pressing projects go cold on the back burner.

Tips and Tricks: Clear Orphaned Cache and Kill a Running Process with Ease
Recast Blog

Tips and Tricks: Clear Orphaned Cache and Kill a Running Process with Ease

Kiosk Manager in Right Click Tools
Recast Blog

Kiosk Manager in Right Click Tools

Deep dive into Kiosk Manager (previously Lab Manager) to apply several settings to a machine or group of machines to lock it down, or turn it into a single use machine... like a kiosk, for example.

Why Right Click Tools Enterprise is a Must-Have for CISOs and SysAdmins
Recast Blog

Why Right Click Tools Enterprise is a Must-Have for CISOs and SysAdmins

A Digital Evolution: How The E.W. Scripps Company Advanced with Right Click Tools
Recast Blog

A Digital Evolution: How The E.W. Scripps Company Advanced with Right Click Tools

Become a Certified Expert with Our New Right Click Tools Certification 
Recast Blog

Become a Certified Expert with Our New Right Click Tools Certification 

Tips and Tricks: Reset a User’s Password in Under 30 Seconds
Recast Blog

Tips and Tricks: Reset a User’s Password in Under 30 Seconds

Taking Endpoint Management to the Next Level: Introducing Agent Gateways 
Recast Blog

Taking Endpoint Management to the Next Level: Introducing Agent Gateways 

Transform Your SysAdmin Workflow with the Software Update Deployment Status Dashboard 
Recast Blog

Transform Your SysAdmin Workflow with the Software Update Deployment Status Dashboard 

Compliance Tracking with Trend Dashboards
Recast Blog

Compliance Tracking with Trend Dashboards

Many of you know Recast Software for the powerful dashboards in Right Click Tools Enterprise. However, you may be less aware of a very useful feature embedded within these dashboards. Our AD Cleanup, BitLocker Compliance, LAPS (Local Admin Password Solution) Compliance, and Software Updates dashboards all come with the ability to create a Trend Dashboard. These Trend Dashboards provide a historical look at each of the individual dashboards, which assists IT Managers and security teams by providing clear, trackable status updates.  

5 Ways Right Click Tools Enterprise Saves Organizational Resources
Recast Blog

5 Ways Right Click Tools Enterprise Saves Organizational Resources

See the top reasons how Right Click Tools Enterprise edition helps SysAdmins be more productive and reduce the chance of human errors.

Recast Software Launches the Recast Academy
Recast Blog

Recast Software Launches the Recast Academy

Recast Software has launched Recast Academy, a learning platform for Enterprise customers to train on our software’s features. Initial courses focus on Right Click Tools Enterprise and enable users to understand the vital features and functionality of our platform.

How to Manage Devices with the Active Directory Cleanup Tool
Recast Blog

How to Manage Devices with the Active Directory Cleanup Tool

One of the tasks that often gets pushed to the wayside, but is very important, is managing devices in Active Directory (AD). As the Active Directory accumulates more Organizational Units (OUs), it’s easy to let objects become obsolete as time passes.

Overview of Microsoft LAPS (Local Administrator Password Solution)
Recast Blog

Overview of Microsoft LAPS (Local Administrator Password Solution)

The "Local Administrator Password Solution" (LAPS) provides management of local account passwords of domain joined computers. Passwords are stored in Active Directory (AD) and protected by ACL, so only eligible users can read it or request its reset

Recast Version 4.9 Release Strengthens User Experience  
Recast Blog

Recast Version 4.9 Release Strengthens User Experience  

Recast Version 4.9 includes software updates and bug fixes added to our products since the 4.8 version, which went live on October 2021. Ticket submissions by customers enable us to uncover and then prioritize updates and fixes.

Role-Based Permissions in Right Click Tools
Recast Blog

Role-Based Permissions in Right Click Tools

In a world where Zero Trust is becoming the industry standard, the last thing you want to do is give out unnecessary permissions. Striking a balance between empowering your employees and reigning in admin access can be challenging. While we often think of these issues in terms of our end users, IT employee accounts should be treated with the same level of scrutiny, providing just enough access to get the job done.

How to Remove Content from Distribution Points with Right Click Tools
Recast Blog

How to Remove Content from Distribution Points with Right Click Tools

How to Update Devices to Windows 11 with Right Click Tools
Recast Blog

How to Update Devices to Windows 11 with Right Click Tools

What’s New in Right Click Tools 4.8 Community Edition
Recast Blog

What’s New in Right Click Tools 4.8 Community Edition

BitLocker Compliance Tool Dashboard: Ensure Compliance Before Loss or Theft
Recast Blog

BitLocker Compliance Tool Dashboard: Ensure Compliance Before Loss or Theft

Preparing for Windows 11: Checking UEFI, SecureBoot, and BIOS Versions
Recast Blog

Preparing for Windows 11: Checking UEFI, SecureBoot, and BIOS Versions

Is There an Easy Way to Manage Windows Updates with ConfigMgr?
Recast Blog

Is There an Easy Way to Manage Windows Updates with ConfigMgr?

ConfigMgr Problems You Didn’t Know You Had and How to Fix Them
Recast Blog

ConfigMgr Problems You Didn’t Know You Had and How to Fix Them

The 10 Most Used Right Click Tools Community Tools for ConfigMgr
Recast Blog

The 10 Most Used Right Click Tools Community Tools for ConfigMgr

How to Install Right Click Tools Enterprise
Recast Blog

How to Install Right Click Tools Enterprise

This post covers automating the Install of Right Click Tools, Enterprise Standalone.

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Right Click Tools Enterprise Webinar

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Right Click Tools Enterprise Demo

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Recast’s New Agent, Leverage the ConfigMgr Fast Channel
Recast Blog

Recast’s New Agent, Leverage the ConfigMgr Fast Channel

Here at Recast Software, we are always adding new functionality to benefit our users. We were asked if we could have our tools leverage the ConfigMgr fast channel, so after a bit of development time, a few "debates" among our team, and two HR interventions, we've came up with the Recast Agent.

Recast Client Pre-Reqs – The Extras
Recast Blog

Recast Client Pre-Reqs – The Extras

To fully utilize the Right Click Tools, you need to have some settings configured in your environments.

Right Click Tools Client: Enterprise with Server Deployment
Recast Blog

Right Click Tools Client: Enterprise with Server Deployment

For this post we'll focus on deploying Right Click Tools Client with Enterprise server support and automating the Deployment of the Recast Client Tools.

Overview of Microsoft UWF (Unified Write Filter)
Recast Blog

Overview of Microsoft UWF (Unified Write Filter)

Microsoft's Unified Write Filter, its a windows feature included in your OS, off by default, but gives you the ability to prevent changes to your system. This post is geared toward a general overview and demo of implementation.

How to Automate Deployment of Right Click Tools Community
Recast Blog

How to Automate Deployment of Right Click Tools Community

This post covers the automated deployment of the Recast Right Click tools Community edition.

Recast Proxy Overview
Recast Blog

Recast Proxy Overview

Recast Proxy is a feature that enables you to extend your reach of the Right Click Tools into previously untapped areas, such as: Untrusted Domains, WorkGroup Machines, and machines the user [ConfigMgr Console User] doesn't have rights on directly.

Recast Proxy Deployment
Recast Blog

Recast Proxy Deployment

In this post, we'll cover deployment of the Recast Proxy Software. Using ConfigMgr to Deploy the Proxy Installer is pretty easy, and can be done in a few different ways.

Recast Kiosk Deployment via Task Sequence
Recast Blog

Recast Kiosk Deployment via Task Sequence

Recast Kiosk Manager is a fan favorite, used by many of our Enterprise customers to help control machines with a few clicks. Sometimes you want to deploy a computer and already have all of these settings applied, using the process Kiosk Manager uses, and stealing the end results, we can create a Task Sequence Module to deploy Recast Kiosk settings during OSD.

Right Click Tools Highlight: System Information Tool
Recast Blog

Right Click Tools Highlight: System Information Tool

Over the past 7 years of being a ConfigMgr admin and having the Right Click Tools at my finger tips, one of them stands out as my most used tool: System Information.

Right Click Tools Highlight: Advanced Collection Information
Recast Blog

Right Click Tools Highlight: Advanced Collection Information

Another one of my Top 10 Right Click Tools is Advanced Collection Information. Right now you're thinking, ha, that tool is obsolete, in 1906, ConfigMgr now gives a list of collections a machine is in the lower pane. At first glance, you'd be right, however, once you launch the tool and take a closer look, you'll see some additional useful information.

Status Messages and a Nifty Right Click Tool
Recast Blog

Status Messages and a Nifty Right Click Tool

This week, we highlight another nifty little tool, which is great for troubleshooting and reporting. Before I tell you which one it is, I'm going to talk about something instrumental in ConfigMgr, but not something we often think about, Status Messages.

Add & Remove Computers To/From Collection
Recast Blog

Add & Remove Computers To/From Collection

Hey Recast Right Click Tools users. This is a nifty tip that I often forget about, but is pretty powerful when adding or removing machines to and from collections.

Back to Basics: Collection Membership
Documentation

Back to Basics: Collection Membership

Ever wonder why a machine doesn't show up in a collection?

Customer Q & A: Lock Down Computer Labs for State Testing
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Customer Q & A: Lock Down Computer Labs for State Testing

In this post we dive into how one school district saves hundreds of hours by using Kiosk Manager to more efficiently administer their state tests.

Top Use Cases for Locking Down Devices in ConfigMgr (Using Kiosk Manager)
Recast Blog

Top Use Cases for Locking Down Devices in ConfigMgr (Using Kiosk Manager)

In a recent customer survey, we found that the use cases for locking down devices are wide and vary by industry, from healthcare to education to manufacturing. Right Click Tools’ Kiosk Manager (previously Lab Manager) allows customers to support common kiosk-style requirements, including Shell Replacement, Automatic Login, Restart on Idle, and more.