BatchPatch uses a combination of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and PsExec to access remote computers, plus ICMP for pinging. If you need to use BatchPatch in an environment where your remote computers have Windows Firewall enabled, here’s what you need to do to make everything work. It is sufficient to use Group Policy to allow [...]
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How to push .NET (or just about anything) to remote hosts using BatchPatch
Here’s how to use BatchPatch to push the .NET framework to remote hosts that don’t already have it installed. You can easily modify this example to push Adobe updates, Java updates, or just about anything else to remote hosts. When the remote host is XP/2003: 1. Add your remote host(s) to the BatchPatch grid, highlight [...]