We are excited to announce our next meeting at Coretek's office in Farmington Hills. Come join us for free training sessions delivered by System Center experts, free food and drinks, and an excellent opportunity to network with your fellow admins!



Our January MISCUG meeting will be taking place on 1/11 at Noon at Coretek HQ in Farmington Hills.



This month we are excited to feature several speakers, including:



Justin Chalfant from Patch My PC, who will be flying out to talk about their third-party patch management product for SCCM. Patch My PC will be a MISCUG sponsor in 2019!



Jordan Benzing from Truesec, presenting:

ConfigMgr: The PowerShell Rises

The fire that surrounds the word of DevOps continues to rise, but fear not we have the hero we deserve and its name is PowerShell. Learn about tips and tricks from the field with PowerShell and Configuration Manager and learn about some of the new cmdlets released in the most recent version of ConfigMgr and how you can use PowerShell to embrace the DevOps mentality.

Topics will Include:

Peace Has cost you your strength victory has defeated you

Discussion on how we have grown lax with testing when it comes to Patching computers because of how good updates were until about a year ago and now we can’t always rely on ADRS to simply deploy updates to their organization because of needing to test things.

Through the growing power of the GUI we have been able to be less and less reliant on CMD/Shell based tools – This is convenient until we have to do something 300 times. Force yourself to do the onesey toosey stuff in Powershell.

Creating Collections with PowerShell Create Query Membership Rules in PowerShell

What’s the next part of your plan? – Crashing this IIS Server with no survivors

The story of the little WSUS Server that could until it couldn’t.

How can we use PowerShell or ConfigMgr to protect ourselves from the eventual crash.

Other ways PowerShell can protect us from things

We’ll Never debug this code or get these reports figured out it runs into any one of these functions we’ll never find it. – Follow him!

Adding Logging to your code

Verbosity is your friend

Comment your code for the love of all things holy

Reporting and data gathering its not just for SQL

Next in the line – New and Upcoming features in ConfigMgr

New and upcoming features in ConfigMgr 1810 and beyond including phased deployments



Mike Marable, who is joining us again as a speaker to talk about OSD statistics with PowerBI. If you were at our last meeting you'll remember Mike doing a great job as a first time presenter! Mike is from Michigan Medicine.



Plus, our usual discussion time!



Stay tuned for more details...



Lunch will be provided.



Register now at http://meetup.com/miscug