Monthly Archives: July 2015

Checking for Stopped Automatic Services with Exclusions

In the most recent release of BatchPatch we added a simple but very useful little feature to assist with reporting on stopped automatic services on a large number of target computers. As sysadmins, we know that after rebooting a large number of computers, it’s extremely useful to be able to confirm that the services that […]

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Running BatchPatch as a Service

In the latest release of BatchPatch we added functionality to run BatchPatch as a service, enabling you to execute scheduled tasks even when no one is logged on to the BatchPatch computer. Go to Tools > Run BatchPatch as a service to reveal the run-as-service settings window. The installation of the service requires BatchPatch to […]

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Enabling Microsoft Update instead of Windows Update on Target Computers with BatchPatch

The distinction between ‘Windows Update’ and ‘Microsoft Update’ has caused a significant amount of confusion for people over the years, so I’d like to take a moment to clarify the difference, as well as to explain how you can configure your target computers to use one or the other with BatchPatch. First note that if […]

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Executing PowerShell Scripts and Commands (cmdlets) on Remote Computers with BatchPatch

Executing PowerShell commands and scripts remotely can be a bit tricky. BatchPatch currently has direct support for deploying PowerShell scripts to target computers, and we will be adding more PowerShell functionality in the not-too-distant future. However, today I’d like to take a few minutes to go over the current options you have for executing PowerShell […]

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