Eugenia and Jeff talk to Chris about the ControlUp Innovation Guild.

The ControlUp Innovation Guild podcast offers a dynamic and insightful look into the fast-paced world of IT innovation. Hosted by members of the Guild and featuring conversations with industry experts and community leaders, each episode delves into the development and application of cutting-edge solutions designed to tackle real-world IT challenges. Listeners gain valuable perspectives on how ControlUp rapidly prototypes and delivers practical tools, often driven by direct user feedback, to enhance IT efficiency, optimize performance, and address specific pain points in areas like end-user computing, security, and resource management. This podcast is a must-listen for IT professionals seeking to stay ahead of the curve and discover actionable strategies for improving their digital environments.

In this episode of the "ControlUp" podcast, hosts Jeff and Eugenia introduce and discuss ControlUp's new Disk Monitor tool with its creator, Chris Twiest. The Disk Monitor is designed to track all read and write activity on hard drives, providing valuable insights into disk usage.

Chris explains that the Disk Monitor was initially developed to address challenges in non-persistent environments like Citrix, where cache issues can impact performance. Unlike traditional tools like Procmon, the Disk Monitor operates efficiently, providing detailed reports on disk activity without compromising system performance.

The discussion expands to cover use cases for persistent environments, such as laptops, where the tool can help diagnose issues like sudden disk space depletion.

Chris also shares insights into upcoming developments, including the Disk Monitor 2.0, which will monitor writes to FSLogix, and a future Network Monitor tool.

This episode of the "Upload with Control Up" podcast features Eugenia and Jeff discussing the integration of Intune with ControlUp for compliance.

The podcast explains that ControlUp provides real-time analysis, troubleshooting, and remediation, which is especially valuable to customers using Intune. While Intune is excellent for application and OS deployment, it doesn't offer the same real-time insights.

The integration allows users to detect vulnerabilities in ControlUp and then use Intune to deploy the necessary patches. This process is very fast; Jeff mentions that in his testing, the package was created within a minute and deployed shortly after.

Setting up the Intune integration is described as straightforward, involving configuration in both the general settings for ControlUp for desktops and the integration settings for ControlUp for compliance.