‍Welcome to the first Recast Endpoint Management Recap of 2020!

Episode three of a monthly edition of recent updates, news and helpful resources for the ConfigMgr community. Highlights from the last month include:

Events / Conference News

Microsoft Product Announcements

Hardware Vendor Updates (Tools / Security / Features)

Community Tools / News

Recast Updates

That's the idea, a high level overview of things going on that you'll want to be aware of and you can dig into them further on your own.

Events & Conferences

This past month we saw some user group action, and we found where / when Ignite 2020 will be.

Ignite 2020 - September 21–25, 2020 - New Orleans, LA

GeekWeek - Truesec - March 23-27, 2020, Chicago or March 2-6, 2020, Stockholm

NWSCUG - Recast Sponsored this January - No Recording

DFWSMUG - January 28, 2020

WMUG - Recorded on Youtube - What's new in MEM Intune and ConfigMgr with Robert Marshall and Paul Winstanley

There are a lot of user groups, not every group meets every month, but there are a lot of ways to get plugged in, meet peers, make connections, and know you're not alone in this MEMCM journey. Reach out to @RecastSoftware if you're interested and unsure where to start, and we'll try to help you connect with your local group.

Microsoft Product Announcements

Microsoft Edge Browser (Based on Chromium Engine): LANDING PAGE

Release Announcement: New Year, New Browser

What do we like about the new Edge? It's secure, it's fast, it's easy to patch, it's managed, has "IE Mode" for legacy support based on your Enterprise Site List, use profiles for separation, huge extension library (since you can use Chrome extensions), and it's just sweet.

Edge Focused Info:

‍Intune Whats New Landing Page

ConfigMgr Whats New Landing Page

ConfigMgr 1910 went General Availability (GA), or what they call the Slow Ring on 12/20.

ConfigMgr 1910 update rollup released Jan 15th. Fixes several bugs since initial release.

ConfigMgr Tech Preview Landing Page

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Hardware Vendor Updates

HP

Dell

Lenovo

Microsoft [Surface]

Surface Support: Drivers - Constant Updates, you'll have to do some drill-downs to find if a specific product to see if there are updates

Surface Tools for IT: - Updated 2019.11.08

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Community Tools \ Blogs

Check out some of our favorite tools for ConfigMgr, along with several blog posts covering a wide range of areas and ideas to all help with Endpoint Management. This month was quite busy in the community.

A special call out to a new website, a portal of collaboration, a way to get plugged in to the Microsoft Endpoint Management community: Systems Management Squad "Our goal is to foster community driven IT knowledge sharing through mentor-supported blogging and public speaking."

Another new Community also came about this past month: MC2MC - Microsoft Cloud and Client Management Community [ @wmatthyssen @_Cloud_boy @Goosken @Jasper_be @Tim_DK @pdtit @peter_linders]

PodCasts / Blog Series / Video Blogs‍

Blog Posts‍

Cloud Tech

General ConfigMgr

Other SysAdmin Goodies



Tools

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Recast Updates

Right Click Tools 4.1 was released with many new tools and features added in the Enterprise edition. Click here to read more about what's new, watch an on-demand webinar and download the new version today.

Thanks for checking out the post, and look forward to more monthly updates of what's going on. If you think I missed something, or want any other news added, find me on Twitter: @RecastSoftware