Monthly Archives: February 2015

Retrieving Event Log Entries from Remote Computers

One of the functions that BatchPatch provides is the ability to retrieve information from many target computers, simultaneously. And one of the most common sources of information that systems administrators need to access is the event log. So, the question then is how does one use BatchPatch to obtain event log information from remote computers? […]

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Using the Task Scheduler in BatchPatch

BatchPatch really shines when it comes to providing real-time control and monitoring of the Windows Update process, reboots, software deployments, and remote script execution on numerous computers. But what if you want to execute tasks while you’re sleeping? For sysadmins it’s extremely common to have to perform tasks on servers at off-hours, often in the […]

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Sequencing Updates and Reboots Across Multiple Target Hosts

One of the questions we get sometimes is how do you update and reboot a set of computers in a specific sequence, without having to babysit the entire process? In the most recent version of BatchPatch we introduced the ‘Basic Multi-Row Queue Sequence.’ This new feature takes the existing job queue to the next level […]

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