Monthly Archives: December 2015

Remotely Installing Adobe Air on Multiple Computers

Today I’d like to demonstrate how to deploy Adobe Air to your entire network of computers in just a few clicks. Obtain the offline installation media for Adobe Air. At the time of this writing, the offline installation media file is posted at the following location: Adobe AIR Offline Installer. Note, you may be required […]

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Reattach Orphaned Remote Windows Update Processes

In the most recent release of BatchPatch there is a new menu option: Actions > Windows Updates > Reattach orphaned Windows Update process. I want to take a few minutes today to explain exactly what this is and when to use it. As you probably already know, BatchPatch is “agentless” in the sense that it […]

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Notifying Logged-On Users of Impending Reboot or Shutdown

One of the more frequently requested features from our customers has been to provide the ability to notify the logged-on users of an impending reboot or shutdown. BatchPatch has provided the ability to send notifications to logged-on users for a long time through the ‘Actions > Send message to logged-on users‘ feature. However, in the […]

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Protecting Sensitive Passwords in Saved BatchPatch Grid Files (.bps / .bpt)

In the November 2015 release of BatchPatch one of the cool new features is password protection with 256-bit AES encryption for your saved .bps / .bpt files. What does this mean? The contents of a .bps / .bpt file can be password encrypted such that after you have applied a password to a particular grid, […]

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