Monthly Archives: March 2016

Remotely Deploy EMET 5.5 to Multiple Computers

If you need to deploy EMET (Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit) to one or more computers on your network, you may follow the instructions below. Download the EMET 5.5 .MSI installer file from Microsoft. At the time of this writing, it’s available from the following link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50766. I’ve saved the .MSI file to E:\Temp\EMET\EMET setup.msi In […]

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Offline Windows Update

Today I’d like to take a few minutes to go over the offline Windows Update capabilities that are built in to BatchPatch. One of the common problems that sysadmins have, particularly on secured networks, is getting their Windows systems updated without having access to the internet or a WSUS server (Windows Server Update Services). In […]

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Filter Which Available Updates Are Included Or Excluded When Downloading Or Installing Windows Updates

In the most recent release of BatchPatch (20160304) we added some new functionality for selecting individual updates to be downloaded / installed on target computers. In addition to the previously available textual filter list option, there is now also a graphical checkbox list available to make it easier to select the updates you want to […]

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Remotely Update Adobe Reader on Many Computers Simultaneously

Recently I published a tutorial on how to remotely deploy Adobe Reader to numerous computers. Today I’d like to do a follow-up tutorial that illustrates how to remotely update your existing Adobe Reader installations. This tutorial assumes you have Adobe Reader 11.0 installed on target computers. If you do not already have Adobe Reader installed, […]

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