Every month when patches come out I have the annoying task of gathering up all of the patches that we will be releasing and sending out an e-mail with the list of all of the patches. Well, while I haven’t quite...
Since the beginning of the year Microsoft has been making numerous changes to updates both before and after patch Tuesday. With all of the changes to patches its hard to know when those changes are made unless you are...
Depending on how you’ve automated your monthly patching solution you may be faced with a continuing challenge. How do I keep my software update packages manageable. Within the community there has always been a lot...
After completing our production upgrade of ConfigMgr to 1802 I’ve been eagerly awaiting a quiet moment or two to sit down and write a post about the new run scripts feature which has me absolutely over the moon...
Recently I’ve found myself constantly creating or copying little one or two line PowerShell scripts out of my one note to perform what I perceive as basic client action tasks. Sometimes those tasks have even...
On January 3rd Microsoft released a bunch of security updates around a hardware vulnerability found in the Intel chipset. Within hours of the patch coming out news outlets and more had exploded with information about...
When working in ConfigMgr I frequently find information in the console is placed in inconvenient or inefficient locations especially when working with large chunks of information. Today I want to talk about a trick...
In the comments of one of my PowerBI posts recently someone brought up a question about how do we tell if and when a patch was installed. This prompted me to start working on this post and talk about not only how to...
Almost two weeks ago I released a pretty generic report on reporting patch compliance using PowerBI and System Center Configuration Manager and I was shocked at the amount of feedback I got from the community! So first...
Recently I shared a PowerBI template that could be used as a solid starting point for compliance reporting on servers, and with a couple tweaks, you could make it work for desktops too. Great, but now its time to go...