Welcome to the Recast Endpoint Management Recap, June 2020 by Gary Blok
Thanks for checking out the June edition of our recap. As always, the layout to the post:
That's the idea, a high level overview of things going on that you'll want to be aware of and you can dig into them further on your own. If you're new to this monthly post, you'll want to look back at previous months, so much great content.
I've posted several groups that I've seen active over the past few months, many doing virtual events. I've added their Twitter information so you can follow them all and keep apprised of their virtual events. Often times, by the time I see an event is coming, the event has come and gone before I release this monthly update, rarely do I see something a couple months out to be able to place the info here. If any of you have Website Information for the ones that don't, let me know. I did some searches but some had dead links and others I just couldn't find.
Microsoft has posted a page with a lot of great resources during this time, to help IT professionals, Educators, Families, and Remote Business, along with how Microsoft is helping in the battle on Covid-19 on their Responding to COVID-19 together page.
Microsoft Edge Browser (Based on Chromium Engine): [Landing Page]
Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection - [Resource Hub]
Microsoft 365 [Landing Page] [Roadmap] [Tech Community]
ConfigMgr [What's New Page] [Tech Community]
ConfigMgr Tech Preview [What's New Page]
Intune [What's New Page] [Tech Community]
Windows 10 [Landing Page] [Tech Community]
This month I'm trying something different, I'm only listing changes. If you want a more complete list of their tools, check out previous month's posts.
!!! HP Just released a blog post that helps explain deploying their UWP apps needed for Windows 10, leveraging HPCMSL and Configuration Manager. If you manage HP devices, you NEED to read this! HP UPW Application Pack Deployment in a Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager OS Deployment Task
Dell reported no changes to me this month but said next month should be a few things. There were some rumblings in the community on twitter [Twitter Thread] about some some issues when flashing BIOS on some models when SMM was enabled. Updated Flash utility Posted
Check out some of our favorite tools for ConfigMgr, along with several blog posts covering a wide range of areas and ideas to all help with Endpoint Management. I'm also going to admit, not each one of these is new, most are, but every so often I find a really good one that I missed awhile back, so I'm posting it now. If you're new to blogging and have started posting content, connect with me on Twitter so I can check our your content that I might not normally catch in my typical twitter feed.
This month I saw some new names posting things I haven't seen before, which was really cool. Wanted to thanks the team at SysmanSquad for making a great place for new folks to get into the blogging game with the help of some seasoned bloggers.
As part of our support for the community, we're also starting a series of posts to highlight community members. These people donate their time, in HUGE amounts, making our jobs easier. I've started by interviewing Donna Ryan. Catch the interview in this POST. I have several more of these lined up, so keep watching twitter or this blog feed to learn more about the people behind the community tools.
One more note, I do my best to provide Twitter accounts with the blog posts, both to provide credit where credit is due, and so you can then follow them yourselves to stay in the loop as things are coming out and ideas are being discussed on twitter.
Podcasts / Blog Series / Video Blogs
Blog Posts
Thanks for checking out the post, and look forward to more monthly updates of what's going on. If you think we missed something, or want any other news added, find us on Twitter: @RecastSoftware
