Ben Whitmore

Systems Architect @PatchMyPC | Microsoft Security MVP

Use Proactive Remediations to pop a Toast Notification when Unsupported Apps are found

Many organsiations, against strong advice, still allow some users to install apps on their devices. Quite often this is applicable to software developers and IT admins, both being given permission to install apps to “test it works”. The old argument was that IT simply could not turn around app packages in Intune of ConfigMgr to keep up with the demand from developers

Update Compliance - Checking client prerequisites

Background

Before you can begin to process Update Compliance data from your devices, you must first ensure that they meet the requirements to participate in the Update Compliance process. Update Compliance uses Windows client diagnostic data for all of its reporting. It collects data for update deployment progress, Windows Update for Business configuration data, and Delivery Optimization usage data. Collected data is sent to a customer-owned Azure Log Analytics workspace.

Running custom actions during a Windows 10 Feature Update with Configuration Manager

Deploying Windows 10 Feature Updates in your organisation can be approached in multiple ways. As we merge the perimeter with the Cloud some of us are trying to understand the best way to deliver Feature Updates to our devices. Should we deploy an in-place upgrade using a ConfigMgr task sequence? Perhaps we should push the Feature Update directly from ConfigMgr to our devices. Have we considered leveraging our CMG and using Microsoft as a source for the update binaries to save our VPNs? Maybe some of us are on a co-management journey and are looking at using WUfB. Which ever technology we are leveraging one of the questions that normally gets asked is “Can we control the update process in a way that lets us ‘Run Stuff’ after the Feature Update has completed”.