Recast Device Collections in the ConfigMgr Console – Queries
This post will walk you through creating Collections to help find machines in your environment that have Recast Software Installed.
Resources
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Right Click Tools
Recast Client Pre-Reqs – The Extras
To fully utilize the Right Click Tools, you need to have some settings configured in your environments.
What’s New in Right Click Tools: March Release Roundup
Here’s a quick summary of the new features added, and bugs fixed in Right Click Tools for March. 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.
4.2 What’s New – Remote Software Center
What's new with Recast Right Click Tools 4.2? We're going to talk about the Remote Software Center [Recast Docs]. From the docs: "This tool has similar functionality as the local Software Center application with the ability to be run remotely from the administrator console and at scale on numerous devices or device collections."
4.2 What’s New – Hardware & Firmware Dashboard
What's new with Recast Right Click Tools 4.2? We're going to talk about the Hardware & Firmware Audit Dashboard [Recast Docs]. From the docs: "This tool Scans your environment and displays the Chassis Type, Manufacturer, and Model of the computers in your ConfigMgr Collections in a chart. This tool can also show UEFI and SecureBoot status as well as Chassis Type, Operating System Version, and BIOS Version"
4.2 What’s New – System Information
What's new with Recast Right Click Tools 4.2? We're going to talk about the System Information Tool [Recast Docs]. From the docs: "This tool pulls a variety of system information and allows several right click actions."
4.2 What’s New – Client Information
What's new with Recast Right Click Tools 4.2? We're going to talk about the Client Information Tool [Recast Docs]. From the docs: "The Client Information tool provides several types of information and available actions regarding the ConfigMgr client."
Right Click Tools 4.2 – What’s New Overview
We here at Recast are keeping busy, writing code and adding new features to Right Click Tools at an increasing rate. Here's a look back at everything we've shipped in the first quarter of 2020.
Uncover and Resolve Security Blind Spots with Right Click Tools
Its difficult to prevent and fix security issues if you don’t know they exist. Right Click Tools help to surface and remediate blind spots that otherwise slip through the cracks. Our dashboards built into Microsoft SCCM surface common weak points like these and are paired with tools to quickly address problems that are discovered.
ConfigMgr
Extend Hardware Inventory for Software
Someone on twitter pointed out that it would be better to use "Installed Software" instead of "Install Application" for the query, while I don't disagree, depending on your reasons, Installed software is not included in Hardware Inventory by default, so unless you went out of your way to enable it (and you should), you could not use it in a query.
Application Management and Patching
How to Deploy the Liquit Workspace Agent with Microsoft Autopilot and Intune
Many organizations use Microsoft Intune and Windows Autopilot to streamline […]
ConfigMgr
User Installed Software and Why You Should Care
User Installed Software and Why You Should Care Configuration Manager […]
ConfigMgr
How to Implement Unified Write Filter Manager with Right Click Tools
This post we'll cover Microsoft's Unified Write Filter (UWF) technology and how Recast's solution will remove some of the pain of implementation of UWF.
Recast Endpoint Management Recap – Special Edition – Maximize Bandwidth Potential
Has this happened to you recently? Manager walks over to your cube, "What would it take to enable most of our employees to work from home, like yesterday?".. then walks out saying "Make it happen."
Endpoint Insights
You Need Normalized Warranty Results
You Need Normalized Warranty Results I was recently asked, “How […]
ConfigMgr
Adding to Your Hardware Inventory
Learn how to add additional items into Hardware Inventory. Two examples, one for HP and one for Lenovo help to import additional information into your CM Database which will help with reporting and queries.
Right Click Tools Management Server 4.1 – Technical Guide to upgrading from 4.0
Recast Right Click Tools 4.1 released and as part of it the Recast Management Server also has a new installer. The upgrade is very straight forward, and we have a few minute video to show for it.
Systems Management
Hardware Inventory Tips – Manufacturer Specific
In our recently release of Right Click Tools 4.1, we added the Hardware Audit Dashboard, as we continue to add functionality, to make best use of this feature, you'll have to make sure you're collecting additional information via hardware Inventory, mainly Product in Baseboard.
What’s New in Right Click Tools: 4.1 Tech Overview – Hardware Audit Dashboard
Several new tools and features have been added to Right Click Tools version 4.1. The new Hardware Audit Dashboard provides a visual of the hardware of the endpoints in an environment.
What’s New in Right Click Tools: 4.1 Tech Overview – Remote Software Center
Several new tools and features have been added to Right Click Tools version 4.1. A new Remote Software Center can be run remotely from the administrator machine and at scale on numerous devices or device collections.