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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 Set Up LAPS for macOS Devices with Microsoft Intune

Step-by-Step Guide: Enabling Windows LAPS in Entra ID (Azure Active Directory)

How to Configure Windows LAPS in Active Directory

How to Set Up Windows LAPS with Microsoft Intune

Windows LAPS Overview

Privilege Manager features beat Microsoft LAPS

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

The Aftermath: Ensure Post-Deployment Health of ReLAPS in Your Environment

Our ReLAPS Dashboard is built right into Microsoft SCCM to help you maintain the health of LAPS in your Environment. Do this by seeing which devices may have LAPS health issues through the Client Install status, as well as whether or not the password is updating and storing correctly. Then, use the ReLAPS Dashboard in tandem with Remote Software Center to install the missing client.‍

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Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – Vol. 67

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Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – Vol. 63

How a National Social Services Organization Streamlined IT Operations and Enhanced Security with Right Click Tools and Endpoint Insights

Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – Vol. 62

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Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – Vol. 59

Running Right Click Tools without Local Admin Access

Running Right Click Tools without Local Admin rights. This article is going to talk about three different ways of setting up Enterprise Right Click Tools with the Recast Management server, and what the Local Admin Requirements are for each.

Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – Vol. 57

How to Manually Register Devices with Windows Autopilot

Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – Vol. 51

Advanced Endpoint Analytics in Intune: An Overview

How to Create Dynamic Groups in Intune Based on License Assignments

Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – Vol. 50

Microsoft Intune Explained: A Comprehensive Overview

How to Set Up Mobile Application Management (MAM) for Windows with Intune

Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – Vol. 49

How to Migrate Group Policy Objects to Microsoft Intune

Configuration Manager and Intune: Why ConfigMgr Remains Valuable

Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – December 2023

How to set up a Free Microsoft Intune Tenant with Microsoft 365 Developer Program

Microsoft Enterprise App Management: A First Look

Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – October 2023

Elevating IT Security and Efficiency in Financial Services with Recast Software Tools

Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – September 2023

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Zero Trust

Open-Source Privileged Access Management Software: A Solution for You?

Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – August 2023

A Digital Healthcare Success Story: Right Click Tools’ Impact within a South Carolina Healthcare System

Transforming Remote Device Management: The FI$Cal Customer Story

Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – June 2023

Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – May 2023

Removing Admin Rights Quickly, Easily, and Efficiently

Transform Your SysAdmin Workflow with the Software Update Deployment Status Dashboard

Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – April 2023

Polling Data Confirms the State of System Administration

Letter to the Chief Technology Officer

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.

Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – March 2023

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.

Your Remaining Questions: Version 5.0 Webinar

We had so many questions during the webinar that we weren’t able to get to all of them. Our Solution Engineering duo Courtney Baty and Marty Miller have answered the remaining questions.

Recast’s Endpoint Management Recap – February 2023

Zero Trust and the Principle of Least Privilege

We recently covered Zero Trust principles broadly. Now let's talk more about how Privilege Manager contributes to certain areas of Zero Trust, including the principle of least privilege.

Principle of Least Privilege: The #1 Protection Against Security Threats in Windows

By Sami Laiho, Chief Research Officer at Truesec and Microsoft MVP in Windows and Devices for IT. Has applied the principle of least privilege in environments for over 20 years.

How Recast Helps Enable Zero Trust Adherence

Removing Admin Rights Hardens your Environment

The User Manual for NT 3.1, published almost 30 years ago in 1993, explains that the security subsystem of the NT operating system is not built to withstand the use of local admin rights. Admins typically set settings and limited users can’t change them. When it comes to configuration, it’s supposed to work ...

2 Core Rules of Zero Trust with Sami Laiho

Sami Laiho, a Microsoft MVP in Windows OS and a highly regarded security expert, recently collaborated with Recast Software to host a webinar, “Zero Trust with Sami Laiho.” Sami concisely made his case for Windows security in 2022.

Privileged Access Management (PAM) Overview

Microsoft Configuration Manager Overview

Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr), currently Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MEMCM) formerly System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), is a Microsoft solution designed to enhance the management of Windows enterprise devices.

How to Remove Outdated Content from the CCM Cache Folder

With Right Click Tools, clearing outdated content from the CCM cache folder is super easy. However, before I show you how to do this, let me tell you about a situation I once faced. Maybe you can relate.

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.

Better Together: Endpoint Insights and Right Click Tools Webinar Highlights

Recast hosted Better Together: Endpoint Insights and Right Click Tools, the third webinar in a five-part series highlighting the many ways Endpoint Insights expands the capabilities of Right Click Tools and ConfigMgr.

Recast Management Server – What is It and Why Do I Need It?

Community Tools and Tips: Update 2022

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

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

How to Create a Prompted WQL Query

Creating Custom Hardware Inventory Tips

Windows PE PowerShell Support

Acronyms of Configuration Manager

ConfigMgr Management Insights for Collections

PowerShell & Task Scheduler: Scheduling Inventory

Back in 2014, I published a blog post called, How to Avoid Receiving Inventory Re-Sync Requests for Snapshot VMs. What I loved about that post was how task scheduler was used to schedule ConfigMgr inventory thereby avoiding ConfigMgr re-sync errors. What I disliked about that 2014 blog post was how each TriggerSchedule task needed to be created by hand. Moving forward to 2020, I turned to PowerShell in order to solve this problem and automated the process.

How to Query a Tesla with PowerShell

How to Access the Local System Account

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.

The Two Sides of BitLocker – Compliance and Key Storage

Our BitLocker Dashboard, built into Microsoft SCCM, displays the compliance of devices' targeted BitLocker Policies from MBAM or CM BLM. You can also ensure keys are stored correctly in AD, MBAM, or CM BLM. Pair our BitLocker Compliance Dashboard with the BitLocker Status tool to easily remediate non-compliant devices.

Software Update Compliance with Precision Filtering

The Three Rs . . . Report, Remediate, and Repeat. The Software Update Deployment Status (SUDS) Dashboard, which is built into Microsoft SCCM, does just that.

Dashboard Series: Know Your Devices to Manage, Update, and Secure Them Effectively

With our Hardware & Firmware Dashboard, built into Microsoft SCCM, you can streamline those processes. You can also make Windows 10 feature updates easier by getting the big picture on hardware and firmware pre-requisites. Finally, view the firmware status and versioning to assist with necessary firmware updates, which are often pre-requisites to Virtualization-based Security components.

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.

What’s New in Right Click Tools: October Release Roundup

Here’s a quick summary of the new features added, and bugs fixed in Right Click Tools for October. 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.