Northwest System Center User Group

Join us in person or online – we’ll be back at our regular meeting location (MTC Bellevue). Recast Software is our sponsor.

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Agenda below:

10:00-11:00 OSDCloud Insiders and WinPE Startnet Customizations – David Segura

11:15-12:15 Securing, Logging, and Monitoring PowerShell – Nathan Ziehnert

12:15-1:15 Lunch – Sponsored by Recast Software

1:15-2:15 From Friction to Flow: Enhancing Intune Operations with Recast – Recast Software

2:30-3:30 Intune Suite Explained – Fabian Rodriguez

OSDCloud Insiders and WinPE Startnet Customizations – This session will cover some unreleased features of OSDCloud Insiders, and a walkthrough of new winpe startnet customizations to customize your boot images.

From Friction to Flow: Enhancing Intune Operations with Recast – See how Recast extends Microsoft Intune with Right Click Tools and Application Workspace. We will walk through real examples of performing real time endpoint actions, improving visibility, and simplifying common workflows. This session focuses on how these capabilities work with Intune and the practical operational value they bring to day-to-day administration.

Intune Suite Explained – Get a quick, clear look at the key tools in the Microsoft Intune Suite. We’ll cover what features like Endpoint Privilege Management, Application Manager, Cloud PKI, Remote Help, and Advanced Analytics do, how they work, and the practical benefits they bring to IT teams today. This session is all about understanding the value of each tool and where they currently stand in terms of capabilities

Our sponsor, Recast Software offers enhanced control of enterprise endpoints and scalable IT automation. Thier software is trusted by tens of thousands of organizations worldwide, elevating the digital employee experience impacting over 60 million devices.

Where? Microsoft Technology Center

700 Bellevue Way NE

22nd Floor

Bellevue, WA 98004

Parking is FREE with validation. Just get a ticket in the garage (in Visitor parking, in the basement of the building), and the Microsoft front desk will validate your ticket when you check in on the 22nd floor.

Join us in person or online – we’ll be back at our regular meeting location (MTC Bellevue). Our newest sponsor Robopack will showcase their Third-Part App Management product. We also have Rob York presenting OS Recovery Features in Intune, and our very own Ashok will deliver another great security session. Agenda below:

10:00-11:00 Delivery Optimization and Microsoft Connected Cache Internals – Andy Rivas

11:15-12:15 – Robopack: Modernizing Third-Party App Management in Intune: Automation That Scales – Mason Graves and Harjit Dhaliwal

12:15-1:15 Lunch – Sponsored by Robopack

1:15-2:15 Intune OS Recovery Features – Rob York

2:30-3:30 Unified SecOps, Sentinel Data Lake, and AI – Ashok Ghosh

Delivery Optimization and Microsoft Connected Cache Internals – Andy Rivas – You likely know about DO and MCC but we’ll did deeper into the internals of both and take a look at some debugging scenarios as well. 

Robopack: Modernizing Third-Party App Management in Intune: Automation That Scales – Mason Graves and Harjit Dhaliwal – Keeping third-party applications updated across distributed organizations remains one of the biggest challenges for Intune admins. In this session, we’ll walk through a modern, automated approach to packaging, publishing, and maintaining third-party apps at scale—without the manual overhead, repackaging delays, or brittle scripts many teams still rely on.

Learn how Robopack’s cloud-based automation integrates deeply with Intune to streamline app lifecycle management, reduce risk, and free IT teams to focus on higher-value work. This is a practical, demo-driven session designed for real-world Intune environments.

Where? Microsoft Technology Center

700 Bellevue Way NE

22nd Floor

Bellevue, WA 98004

Parking is FREE with validation. Just get a ticket in the garage (in Visitor parking, in the basement of the building), and the Microsoft front desk will validate your ticket when you check in on the 22nd floor.

Greetings NWSCUG! Join us November 7 in Microsoft Building 83 for a great lineup! This will be our first meeting on the Microsoft campus – we hope you’ll join us in person. (We’ll send out additional details to in-person attendees shortly before November 7th).

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10:15 – 11:15 – Automate, patch, protect: Mastering Windows Updates with Autopatch – Chris Tulip

11:20 – 12:20 – Troubleshooting in Windows: Help us make it better – Harman Thind

12:20 – 1:45 – Lunch

1:50 – 2:50 – Accessibility in Windows – An on going evolving area – Nate Nielsen

2:55 – 3:55 – GitHub Copilot, It’s not just for Dev’s – Steven Hosking

4:00 – 5:00 – Networking/Q&A

Troubleshooting in Windows – Help us make it better: In this session we will talk to the common issues we are seeing in Windows, and discussing options for how AI could potentially reduce the down time for your staff.

Accessibility in Windows – An on going evolving area: In this session we will be talking about how Accessibility is envolving in Windows, and how AI is helping to drive this change.

Automate, Patch, Protect: Mastering Windows Updates with Autopatch: In this session, we’ll walk through how to streamline Windows update management using Windows Autopatch, empowering IT admins and security teams to automate policy enforcement, reduce downtime, and respond faster to critical vulnerabilities. Autopatch engineers will share new features developed based on your feedback and answer questions in real time.

GitHub Copilot – It’s not just for Dev’s: In this interactive session we will be going on a adventure with GitHub Copilot to demonstrate some of the possibilities that the IT admin can use GitHub Copilot for.

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