Despite the amazing and futuristic progression of technologies in cybersecurity, it’s still incredibly hard to answer the most basic of questions like: how many assets do I have, and do they adhere to my security policy? Somewhere along the line, ... continue reading

Modern security teams need to proactively, efficiently, and effectively hunt for threats across multiple attack vectors. To address this need, today we’re excited to give you a glimpse of a new threat hunting capability coming soon to Microsoft Threat Protection ... continue reading

I’m excited to announce that Microsoft’s Threat & Vulnerability Management solution is generally available as of June 30! We have been working closely with customers for more than a year to incorporate their real needs and feedback to better address ... continue reading

Hi Folks, If you are managing a hierarchy for sometime and dealt with Replication issues before; I assume you would have an understanding of the DRS Initialization process. If you feel you need some guidance then refer: ConfigMgr 2012 DRS ... continue reading

Learn about some changes coming to the way Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and System Center Configuration Manager download feature and quality updates! Find out more about deploying updates using System Center Configuration Manager + deploying updates using Windows Server ... continue reading

In “Step 9. Protect your OS” of the Top 10 actions to secure your environment blog series, we provide resources to help you configure Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Microsoft Defender ATP) to defend your Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and ... continue reading

First published on TECHNET on Dec 10, 2018Hello everyone, Jonathan Warnken here. I am a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) for Microsoft. I primarily support Configuration Manager and today I want to talk about creating a custom console extension to allow ... continue reading

First published on TECHNET on Dec 26, 2018Hello! My name is Todd Linke, and I am a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft where I specialize in System Center Configuration Manager.For those of you that may not be aware, SCCM generates ... continue reading

First published on TECHNET on Jan 29, 2019 Introduction Hello, my name is Richard McIver and I'm a Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft specializing in System Center Configuration Manager.I was recently working with a customer who suddenly started receiving a ... continue reading

What is the difference between Update Deployment (Assignment) and Update (individual) compliance reporting ? Consider a deployment containing 100 updates. Now each of these 100 updates will have their own compliance state on the machine and the Deployment you can ... continue reading