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...
Category - Software Updates
Ben Whitmore
WIM Witch – v2.1 – Minor, Yet Major, Updates to ConfigMgr Integration. Plus, Windows 10 2004
Author’s note: The release of Win10 2004 came before I had this post ready. As the code was ready, I opted to release the latest build to give users the ability service the new image without providing instruction...
Donna Ryan
How to back up a WSUS SQL database with PowerShell
Over the years I’ve worked with a few different organizations that all do SQL backups in different ways however I recently ran into a situation where there wasn’t a really great way to perform a SQL back up...
Jordan Benzing
SCConfigMgr Software Update Compliance Dashboard – Version 2.0 released
I’ve been on a bit of a reporting spree here lately and I have been giving a little bit of love to the two PowerBI templates I’ve got out on TechNet and GitHub. I can now happily say that I’ve done...
Configure and deploy Third-Party Software Updates with ConfigMgr
Starting with ConfigMgr Current Branch 1806, you can now enable and deploy Third-party Software Updates from a partner catalog from within ConfigMgr using the existing software update management process. By...
Nickolaj Andersen
Send your patching manifest to Microsoft Teams
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...
How to stay current on Windows Updates
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...
ConfigMgr 1802 – Using Run Scripts To Get Next Maintenance Window
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...
CMOperations PowerShell Module 1.0.0.4
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...
Understanding Spectre and Meltdown
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...