Monthly Archives: April 2015

Advanced Script Integration with BatchPatch

In BatchPatch we’ve tried to integrate numerous features to help an administrator perform his/her duties. However, no matter how much we provide out-of-the-box, there will always be unique situations in every environment, and it might be the case that you want BatchPatch to do something that it doesn’t already do. Of course in these instances […]

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Using BatchPatch to Deploy Adobe Flash to Numerous Computers (.MSI format)

I thought I’d spend a few minutes today to demonstrate how to install the Adobe Flash plugin to numerous computers, simultaneously, in just a few clicks. Obtain the installation media. In this example we’re going to use the .msi installer file that Adobe makes available. I recently tried to use the .exe that they publish, […]

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Importing Hosts and Other Information into a BatchPatch Grid

In the April 2015 release of BatchPatch we updated the method responsible for importing computers so that you can now import other items in addition to computer names and IP addresses. The allowed values are: 1 # MAC | NOTES || NOTES2 ||| DESCRIPTION |||| LOCATION |U| USERNAME |P| PASSWORD |D| DOMAIN As long as […]

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Remotely Install Multiple .MSU Files (or .MSI and .MSP files) to Numerous Computers

In the latest version of BatchPatch (April 2015) we added a macro to automatically configure a deployment of multiple .MSU files (.MSI and .MSP also allowed). Deploying and then remotely installing an entire folder’s worth of patches / updates to numerous computers has never been easier. Note, if you’re using a pre-April-2015 version of BatchPatch, […]

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